Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks · Courses
PHP
11 courses with the subject PHP, 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.
PHP 410Public Health Preparedness for Disaster and Terrorist Emergencies I3
Analyzes the history of terrorism and explores the preparation and response to specific terrorist threats, natural disasters, and conventional catastrophes. HLS 410 Public Health Preparedness for Disaster and Terrorist Emergencies (3) This course introduces students to the preparation and response to necessary to deal with specific terrorist threats, such as chemical, biological, and radiologic agents, as well as conventional civilian attacks. Students will analyze the history of terrorism from a public health perspective, and examine recent domestic and international terrorist incidents. The coordination and planning of specific natural disasters will also be explored. Students will have the opportunity to examine the consequences of conventional civilian disasters, including crisis management of conflict-related disasters and transportation and industrial related catastrophes. The current state and inherent challenges of drug, vaccine, and laboratory response to disasters will be reviewed. Students will also be introduced to models used to predict mass casualties.
PHP 810Non-Medical Obstacles to Public Health Responses3
This course will enable students to study obstacles outside of traditional pharmaceutical interventions that have major influences on the success or failure of public health responses. Despite their importance, these impediments are typically studied retroactively instead of being a major component of pre-planning and execution considerations. This course will use a series of case studies to explore Non-Medical Obstacles (NMOs) including security, logistics, communications, and social/cultural issues. Specific areas of focus will be their impact, policy implications, their past mitigation strategies, and future planning opportunities. These NMOs translate across diseases and countries so when their impacts are better understood and incorporated into the planning of future public health responses, it will be possible to provide more effective and efficient care to populations in need.
PHP 830Critical Infrastructure Protection of Health Care Delivery Systems3
This course will enable students to systematically evaluate the critical infrastructure and related vulnerabilities of a hospital or health care system, and then use the knowledge and skills to develop an emergency response plan to mitigate distuption to health care delivery. The course uses an all-hazard approach which would be appropriate for carious natural or terrorist events. The course docuses upon the protection of all healthcare delivery for an individual hospital and for a defined residential population. The content includes a review of critical infrastructures, assessment of vulnerabilities, application to a simulated reural/urban county with muliptle hospitals, and development of a deasible response to the incident or terrorism. The course stresses advanced preparation, communication, and frequent evaluation of plans. The course also examines the relationship between the healthcare delivery system and the local. state, and federal emergency response agencies in addition to their particular roles relative to disasters and terrorist emergencies.
Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject with a professional orientation that may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or semester
