17 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.
PBH 110Introduction to Public Health1098
This course provides an overview of public health globally, with an emphasis on the United States. The course focuses on the population health perspective, including the impact on the health care system and the environment and the specific needs of under-served populations. A history and background of public health are included to provide a framework for understanding how health and health care evolved globally and within the United States. This history is intricately connected to the discovery of the science of epidemiology, which also is discussed. The course provides an introduction to disease incidence and prevalence, and how the frequency, distribution, and determinants of disease affect how resources are allocated to target health conditions and health disparities. Methods used to detect diseases within populations are described along with educational interventions used to facilitate behavior change and disease prevention. Issues of health care delivery are included with a discussion of health care financing, reimbursement, cost containment and utilization. Finally, students are introduced to the concept of social determinants of health promotion and disease prevention, including health communication and informatics, so that they may gain an understanding of the health disparities that exist today and the factors that contribute to this inequity.
This course introduces students to critical challenges in global health using multidisciplinary perspectives. Issues at the nexus between development and health are explored through: millennium development goals, disease burden, environmental health and safe water, epidemiology and demography of disease, AIDS and HIV prevention, chronic diseases, nutritional challenges, social determinants of global health, harm reduction and behavioral modification, health professionals and capacity development, as well as human rights and bioethical issues in a global context.
PBH 220Biological Foundations of Global Public Health1098
This course provides foundational knowledge of biological principles and their application in global public health research and practice. The first segment of this course introduces fundamental concepts in biological public health including the origins of modern science, basic pathophysiology, public health triad, immunity and immunizations, inflammation, pathogenic micro-organisms, behavioral determinants, evolution, and epidemiologic methods. The next segments focus on the application of these concepts and principles in the context of infectious and chronic diseases as well as behavioral determinants. This course highlights current and emerging ethical social, and legal issues of biological public health relevance. Public health prevention, management, and control programs, including technical approaches, will be reviewed and discussed in relation to the pathogenesis of disease. This course includes lecture, individual/small group activities, presentations, and a final paper.
PBH 250Epidemiology: The Science of Public Health1098
This course provides a basic understanding of the epidemiologic method of identifying disease-causing exposures and behavioral factors that place individuals at risk of other health-related events. It emphasizes the generation of hypotheses based on descriptive epidemiological data, the testing of hypotheses through analytic epidemiologic research, the determination of causality, and the value of epidemiologic research in developing and evaluating disease prevention strategies. The course is designed to enhance students’ ability to analyze problems systematically and to think collectively.
PBH 260Research and Bio-Statistical Methods in Public Health1098
This course introduces students to research approaches which assess and address public health challenges, focusing on quantitative methods. Students learn how various research designs address a research question and apply this knowledge to the critiques of scientific studies in public health. Students learn statistical approaches utilized in public health research and perform basic data management and analysis. Topics include ethical principles of research, development of research questions, selection of a research design, participant sampling, validity and reliability of measurement tools, research writing, and analysis, presentation, and interpretation of statistical data. The class format is lecture, individual and small group activities and computer-based activities.
Not regularly scheduled. This course is an introduction to the concepts and principles of nutrition. Throughout the semester, students will learn the basic components of foods–macro and micro-nutrients, their relationship to diet and metabolism and weight management. Nutritional needs through the lifecycle will be discussed along with the primary disease states associated with each age group. Controversial issues, such as food supplementation, factory farming, genetically modified foods, the impact of a beef culture on the environment, and dieting will be discussed along with holistic approaches to food and healing.
This course covers health outcomes, determinants of health, and the ways policies can or have influenced population health in the U.S and globally. This course covers a broad perspective, including recognizing a health care systems approach, additional (non-health care related) public health policies, the concept of “Health in all Policies,” and organizational policy. We will briefly review the history of U.S. federal health care system reform and comparative international models (e.g., Canada, UK, Germany), as well as emphasize specific government approaches (at federal, state and local levels) to address health (e.g.,smoking bans), including international perspective.
PBH 330Applied Perspectives in Global Public Health1098
This course aims to develop student skills in navigating global health organizations and systems, to understand current structure and opportunities for future innovation and integration of systems. The basis of professional organizational management is ethical practice and effective communication. Students will learn the ethical principles of global public health and understand methods of creating and ensuring an ethical climate in public health agencies. Students will also develop effective communication skills for the delivery of public health information to diverse populations and for organizational communication to key organizational stakeholders.
PBH 360The Global Environment: Sustainability, Climate Change and the Built Environment1098
Global health is a field of study that prioritizes on improving health and achieving health equity in populations across the globe. Global health professionals will need to understand the influence of environmental factors and changes on the populations they serve as well as potential impacts of the population’s behaviors on the environment. Partnering with countries, particularly lower income countries, to achieve improvements in public health through environmental sustainability is a critical skill in a world where shifts in availability of clean air and water and changes in climate and ecosystems factors will potentially exacerbate existing global health disparities. This course will assess the impact of climate change and access to natural resources on population health, particularly in lower income countries, and will explore current practices of populations which directly impact the health of local environments and the global environment. Students will learn to utilize a sustainability lens for public health solution development, to perform assessments of environmental resources and their sustainability, to identify built environments (man-made environmental features) which create and/or reinforce health disparities, and will develop skills to assess and moderate the impacts of environmental hazards on a population.
This course is designed to provide you with an interdisciplinary review of Human Sexuality. Human sexuality is a core issue in everyone’s lives- behaviorally, emotionally, physically, intellectually, spiritually, socially and professionally- as health educators and as students; as parents and as children; as individuals and as partners. Human sexuality is fundamentally tied to the social process, constantly influenced by societal values and mores, by changing religious and secular ideas and by individual behavior and opinion. At the core of sexuality are seemingly unalterable facts: anatomy, genes, hormones, and other biological processes that influence the way humans reproduce. These facts can also be influenced by the way society sees them and it is this inherent conflict that this course will explore. Course activities will challenge you to evaluate your own personal, academic, and professional factors that impact your ability to provide and develop effective health education and promotion services.
PBH 374Sexual and Gender Minority Health Disparities1098
Not regularly scheduled. Historically, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals have often been perceived in stereotyped, one-dimensional ways. Over the past few decades, public health practitioners have become increasingly aware that LGBT persons constitute sexual and gender minorities who have unique health care needs. Students will examine these needs at an individual, community, and societal level, and learn more about political, medical and social issues relevant to these communities, including issues specific to trans and gender-non-conforming communities.
PBH 380International Maternal and Child Health1098
Using the social and ecological model of public health along with other relevant frameworks, this course introduces students to international maternal and child health issues. The course explores how various social, political, cultural factors such as beliefs, practices and norms shape policies and programs on reproductive health. Through analysis of case studies, students will critically analyze the underlying causes of inequities in access, use and the quality of maternal and child health care in different cultures and settings, and how to address these issues from the perspectives of equity and social justice.
PBH 382Introduction to Social Justice and Health Equity1098
This course examines social inequalities in health and seeks to better orient students to how these inequities create inequitable distributions to wealth, power and resources. Using historical and contemporary literature, articles, case studies, and film, this course engages students in fundamental questions of social justice in public health, including the role of policy systems and infrastructure. What are the implications of inequities in health? Who is responsible for health and health disparities? Whom does “everyone” include? This course introduces innovative and fundamental components to health, including: (a) trauma informed care; (b) adverse childhood experience (ACES); (c) the sanctuary approach to care; and (d) racial literacy and awareness. The overarching goal of this course is to increase (a) the awareness of social inequities and its implications on health; (b) understanding its complexities as it relates to health; and c) how to effectively mitigate health gaps and inequities.
This course is a collection of courses that address timely topics in public health and health education. New topics offered for the first time are made available to students to gauge the interest level across disciplines. Once offered, the course then receives approval to be offered on a continuing basis and a designated departmental course number for future use.
In this course students will synthesize, integrate and apply global public health skills and knowledge in the context of service learning projects. This experiential learning opportunity will allow students to translate classroom learning into real world global public health practice. Students will partner with a global health-related agency, program, or initiative to participate in a service learning project. Through service, reflection, dialogue, observation and other approaches students will evaluate global public health principles in relation to service learning concepts (global citizenship, service, community-driven partnerships, power and privilege, intercultural understanding, teamwork and advocacy).
In this course students synthesize and apply public health program content to skill development for global public health practice. This course focuses on developing program planning and grant writing skills. Students will learn theories and models for program plan development, identify funding sources for a chosen topic, discover the importance of budget proposal and program sustainability and learn the role of collaboration to bring organizations and stakeholders together to share ideas and resources. Relying on best practice frameworks and international health targets, students will plan and develop context-specific intervention strategies. Students will participate in the entire grant submission process including grant writing, development of a full (mock) grant, and participation in the peer-review process.
In this course students will demonstrate the application of competencies and integration of knowledge obtained through Bachelors of Science in public health program content. Students will review and synthesize key concepts from degree foundational domains and apply this knowledge to their global public health project, which was developed in Capstone I. Global public health external experts will critically evaluate student projects. Culminating projects will be presented to key stakeholders including community members and institutional leadership.
