PUBHHBP 7564
A Public Health Approach to Adolescent Health
Focuses on the health of adolescents in the United States. Emphasis is on examining health and risk behaviors from developmental and contextual perspectives with reference to policies and programs for preventing health problems and promoting the wellbeing of this population.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHBP 7562
Theoretical Approaches to Health Behavior Change in Public Health Applications
Major theories drawn from social and behavioral science literature, pertinent to understanding and addressing problems in health behavior.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor.
PUBHHBP 7558
Policy as a Prevention Strategy
This course will prepare graduate students on the key elements of how policy can be used as an intervention to promote primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor.
PUBHHBP 7554
Cancer Behavioral Science
Overview of behavioral issues associated with cancer at the individual and community levels.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 828.
PUBHHBP 7552
Substance Abuse Prevention
History of substance abuse prevention efforts; theoretical foundations and elements of successful programs.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 826.
PUBHHBP 7550
Special Topics in Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Regular class on topics that are relevant to students enrolled in programs in the Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing.
PUBHHBP 7544
Fundamental Determinants of Population Health and Implications for Public Health
Presents the ideas that population health is determined by factors outside of health care and individual behavior occurs within a social context.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 830.
PUBHHBP 7542
Settings and Special Populations in Health Promotion
Critical characteristics of principal settings in which health promotion interventions occur and populations to which they apply such as youth, elderly, racial and ethnic minorities.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 822.
PUBHHBP 7534
Research Methods in Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Social science research methods emphasizing methods used to assess the dimensions of health‐relevant behaviors and community‐based prevention research.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor.
PUBHHBP 7532
Program Evaluation in Public Health
Examination of evaluation models for public health programs, exploration of philosophical and scientific issues in evaluation and skill building in both qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in Public Health and graduate student standing or permission of instructor.