15 courses with the subject PBH, 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.
This course is a comprehensive and practical course designed to introduce incoming students to the academic environment, resources, and ACPHS community. This seminar aims to foster the transition to college life and assist students with developing essential skills for success in their academic journey. (1)
This course will offer an introduction to public health, including discussion of its history, survey of its modern concepts and disciplines, and orientation to the public health approach/style of critical thinking and communication. It will also provide an overview of the current U.S. healthcare and public health delivery systems, and discuss the necessary human resources and institutions that comprise each system. (3)
Data is vital to modern health care systems and growing in complexity. Gathering data and organizing it to answer important questions in clinical practice and public health and safety are essential skills for those working in health and health care. Learning to access patient, clinical data and the wide range of data sources (e.g., administrative data, patient reported data, and secondary data) and the common mechanisms to represent clinical data (e.g., ICD). Strategies for optimizing data quality and questions around the ethics, privacy and ownership will also be discussed.
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to and overview of the key areas of environmental health. Using the perspective of the population and community, the course will cover factors associated with the development of environmental health problems. Students will gain an understanding of the interaction of individuals, communities, and economic activity with the environment, the potential impact on health of environmental agents, and specific applications of concepts of environmental health. The course will cover principles derived from core environmental health. The sequence of major topics begins with background material and the tools of the trade (environmental epidemiology, environmental toxicology, environmental policy, and regulation). The course then covers specific agents of environmental diseases (e.g., microbial agents, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation). Finally, applications and domains of environmental health are addressed (e.g., water and air quality, food safety, waste disposal, occupational health, and injuries). (3)
Seminar in Health Professions or Second Year Seminar is meant to provide all Public Health students with career planning advice as well as to connect you to current professionals and graduate students so that you can learn about their experiences. This seminar also is designed to help you cultivate teambuilding skills, enhance your communication skills, and practice tools that will assist you in your career. Throughout the semester, you will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with interviewing and career skills, while also receiving professional feedback to improve those skills. Class will meet for approximately 1 hour each week and. attendance is required.
Students will identify and apply the basic concepts and methods of biostatistical data analysis in public health. Data usage, analysis, and evidence-based approaches to public health data will be introduced. Specific topics covered include epidemiological study design, descriptive statistics, probability, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and power and sample size calculations. Regression analysis will be introduced. (3)
This course provides an overview of the health care system in NYS and the US. It examines all facets of the system, including overall organization; services and coverage; the major health care providers and sectors; models of delivery and financing and their implications for clinical practice; regulation; core issues by sector and systemwide; and more. Students will develop an understanding of the system’s integral parts, their interrelationship, and implications for patients, providers, system performance, policy, and overall population health. (3)
This course provides students with exposure to a variety of research methods in the behavioral and social sciences. It will focus on the research process from crafting a research question to gathering data and analyzing the results through both quantitative and qualitative techniques. The course will emphasize applied research methods and we will develop skills in understanding and interpreting data. At the end of the course, students will have had exposure to a broad range of data collection methods as applied to a variety of health issues and problems. (3); Corequisite: ETH 320
For more than two centuries, vaccines have been an integral and effective public health strategy. Yet, at times, vaccines and vaccine policies are the subject of intense controversy. This course will explore the unique features of vaccines and related legal, ethical, and behavioral topics that make this public health intervention distinct. Topics covered include: the basic science and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines; an overview of U.S. public health vaccination systems and discussion of laws and ethics related to vaccine policies; health promotion themes in the context of addressing undervaccination; and instruction and application of epidemiologic methods to study vaccine effects. (3) PBH 310 Introduction to Medical Anthropology (Formerly LAS 283) Introduction to Medical Anthropology introduces students to the cultural foundations of illness and curing. The course focuses on non-Western societies and how these societies perceive and treat states of health and disease. The course presents issues of health and disease within a framework of ecological, evolutionary and cultural systems and provides a background in current theoretical perspectives in anthropology. (3)
The topic of Human Trafficking is an important one. Law Enforcement is only beginning to address it in the U.S. as there has been very little training regarding the same. Health care workers and professionals throughout the Criminal Justice system encounter victims, perpetrators and evidence of Human Trafficking frequently. Learning how to recognize these individuals and signs will save lives. This course will prepare students to identify and assist victims of human trafficking, and to work toward eliminating the existence of modern day slavery throughout the world. (3)
This course will familiarize students with the biological and social determinants of health and health outcomes in the United States and the multiple, often-overlapping factors underlying health disparities, including race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration status, and the environment. It will draw from biomedical sciences, public health, social sciences and the humanities to enrich our understanding of the determinants of health. Using the lens of social justice, root causes are explored and organizations working toward just solutions are highlighted. Students will be challenged to move towards creative correctives in healthcare advocacy, research in medicine and public health, and development of just and equitable healthcare policy that is informed by the background of these complex, often harmful, social forces. (3)
Public health programs are an essential component of public health practice. This course will familiarize students with the fundamental concepts and features of evidence-based public health program implementation, including assessment, planning, and evaluation, for application in applied public health settings. Students will complete a semester-long, experiential group project in which they will design and deliver a public health program. (3);
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events and is often thought of as the “cornerstone” science in the practice of public health. This course introduces fundamental principles and methods used in the field of epidemiology and applies these approaches to describe and evaluate causal relationships in health problems. (3)
Service learning combines academic instruction with community service and focuses on critical, reflective thinking along with personal and community responsibility. This course provides an immersive service experience addressing a public health need that will vary by semester based upon community needs. Students will work closely with faculty and community members and be mentored on how to address real-world public health problems in Albany, with attention to underlying systemic issues.
The Capstone Experience should be a health related, project or applied experience that synthesizes your training at ACPHS with practical, real-world experiences. One applied public health clinical, research, or community-based experience is required during the senior year. Students can choose to complete the Capstone Experience over 1 or 2 semesters in their senior year at ACPHS and can pursue between 3 and 6 academic credit hours. Students must complete status updates throughout the semester, must present their projects/papers/experiences back to the Public Health community at ACPHS, and complete a brief evaluation of their experience. (3); Prerequisite: Senior standing in the Health and Human Sciences Program or permission of the instructor
Source: Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
