PUBHLTH 6004
Essentials of Population Health
This is the second of two foundational courses describing how policies, systems and communities interact to either contribute to or reduce disparities between the health outcomes of different populations. This course will cover organization, delivery and payment of health care services in the United States and across the world, the framework for organizing the presentation and use of information concerning the effect of environmental conditions on health status.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health or permission of instructor. Completion of PUBHLTH 6001 and 6002. Corequisite: PUBHLTH 6003
PUBHLTH 6003
Methods in Public Health Planning and Evaluation
This course will address the methodology, conceptual frameworks and strategies for planning and evaluating public health programs.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health or permission of instructor. Completion of PUBHLTH 6001 and 6002.
Corequisite: Enrollment in PUBHLTH 6004
PUBHLTH 6002
History, Values and Essential Services of the U.S. Public Health System
Health outcomes for individuals and populations are impacted by a variety of social, economic and environmental factors. To understand how these social determinants create or reduce opportunities for health, it is critical to understand how both the public health and health care systems have been developed, have evolved and are now organized to either contribute to or reduce disparities between the outcomes of different populations. This course, the first of two foundations courses, will cover the values, history and essential services of the U.S. public health system and the foundations of the social and environmental determinants of health, including the impact of racism, poverty and other structural inequities. Modules will concentrate on how the public health system has addressed communicable and non-communicable diseases through progress in environmental, social and economic policies and practices, impacting health throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries and accounting for more than two-thirds of the gains in life expectancy over the past 100 plus years.
Prequisite(s): Prerequisites: Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health, Master of Health Administration or permission of instructor. Corequisite: Enrollment in PUBHLTH 6001
PUBHLTH 6001
Methods in Quantitative Data Analysis
Fundamentals of biostatistics and epidemiology. Will cover core knowledge areas in quantitative data analysis, morbidity, mortality and risk assessment to understand population health.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Master of Public Health or Master of Health Administration Program or permission of instructor. Co-requisite: PUBHLTH 6002.
