17 courses with the subject MPH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MPH 600Principles of Public Health (3 cr.)
This course provides an overview of the public health field to begin to explore the gaps and inequities in health outcomes. Students consider the history of public health practice and research, national and global structural institutions, and basic concepts and theories that inform public health practice. Emphasis is placed on healthy equity from a population perspective. Major data and research resources are reviewed to support future research endeavors.
This course covers the appropriate use of data in characterizing the health of a population and provides an overview of probability and statistical inference in public health. Students learn the principles of collecting, analyzing, and presenting data. Topics include random variation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, chi-square distribution, and linear regression. Students apply concepts through in-class labs that evaluate statistics used in public health publications.
MPH 610Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health (3 cr.)
This course provides an overview of social, cultural, and behavioral aspects that influence public health. Students examine socio-cultural structures related to behavioral health, and apply concepts and theories to begin to address community health issues.
This course provides basic epidemiologic concepts and methods for public health practitioners, including an understanding of various measures of risk, disease, and mortality in populations. Students learn types of epidemiologic strategies used to examine associations between risk factors and morbidity and mortality and how to distinguish between a statistical association and a causal relationship. The course includes an overview of chronic and infectious disease epidemiology using historical and current public health challenges. In addition to studying various aspects of disease in populations, the importance and types of disease prevention are included.
MPH 620Environmental Determinants of Health (3 cr.)
This course examines how urban and rural environmental factors, including social, physical, and chemical, are examined as determinants of health, with an emphasis on current topics related to national issues and laws and strategies used to reduce or eliminate health threats and provide health equity.
