15 courses with the subject PUBH, 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.
PUBH 101Introduction to Public Health3
This formative course serves as an overview of public health and is the initial book-end course in the major. This course is designed to give the learner the principles of population health, history, health professions, acute care institutions and public health systems, tools of public health, health informatics, preventing disease and disability, finding reliable data, basic statistical measures used in public health, social and behavioral factors, environmental issues, medical care, and the future of public health. Students will discuss the impacts of current issues in public health and study the impacts of healthcare reform. Fall and Spring.
This course will include an exploration of personal health factors and dimensions of wellness, and examination of introductory community-based health indicators. Students will be encouraged to consider their existing views of what constitutes health and wellness beyond just physical abilities. Students will also explore careers in health care. As needed.
This course will provide an introduction to epidemiology, the basic science of public health. The course will cover the historical and ethical context of public health scientific methods, explore basic statistical and epidemiological measures of disease occurrence, describe the strengths and weaknesses of common research designs in determining causality, and examine the use of epidemiological findings in the development of clinical and public policy. Students will also learn how to critically review scientific publications and interpret graphical representation of scientific data. Spring.
This course will focus on the basic concepts of nutrition and the application of nutritional principals in promoting wellness. Students will gain a general understanding of the major nutrients including carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals, and the role of these nutrients play in human health. The class will also address current topics in nutrition to include reading food labels, nutritional claims, current trends in the American diet and popular fad diets. Students will also research current nutritional controversial topics while assessing reliability of various resources for nutritional information. The importance and basics of exercise will also be discussed. Students will assess the adequacy of their own diets by completing a detailed computerized diet analysis project. As needed.
This course will provide an introduction to contemporary concepts in human health and disease. The course will begin with a brief introduction to historical theories of health and disease, foundational elements of epidemiology, and basic concepts of biomedical science. The student will learn the causes, impacts and treatment of infectious and non-infectious diseases, the nation’s most prevalent chronic conditions and how they drive rising healthcare costs. The student will learn the differences in teaching and presenting preventive public health information to the public versus scientific information to health professionals through exploring several projects. Fall.
Only in France (3 credits) This seminar-style course examines health systems from a comparative perspective taking into account historical, cultural, social, economic, and political factors that influence original design, recent reforms and evolution, and contemporary issues in the various systems under study. The primary goal is to expand students’ understanding of health care systems around the world and to enhance their critical reading and thinking about them in general and in particular. An important theme will be to analyze current problems and issues in the U.S. with a view to imagining solutions and ways of improving/reforming the system. This comparative and international perspective aims to situate both the U.S. and French systems in a wider context while at the same time having particular relevance to students’ professional pursuits giving them a first-hand look at the French system at work during their time abroad. Only in France. As needed.
The student will examine the policy making processes and strategies for change related to the public health environment. Critical policy analysis related to the health industry is necessary for change and improvement. This course is designed to promote exposure and creativity resulting in the critical analysis of existing health policies. The formulation of strategies and solutions to individual policy issues will be the focus of learning activities. Students will explore upcoming public health policies and issues. Spring.
The course will present an extensive depiction of global health in the context of prioritizing health improvement as well as achieving equity in physical health and health policy for all people worldwide. Students will be given opportunities to determine and demonstrate an understanding of the challenges currently facing global health. Students will demonstrate an understanding of why challenging and solving global health and policy issues are potentially important ways to decrease the incidence of poverty, build stronger economies and promote world peace. Through the extensive use of case studies from around the world, students will be exposed to the mechanisms of major communicable and non-communicable diseases and be given the opportunity to develop rationales regarding ways in which socioeconomic and demographic differences can influence the burden of disease. Spring.
This is an interdisciplinary course designed to enhance the leadership skills of students as they encounter current public health challenges. The course focuses on leadership skills and strategic planning for public health and healthcare professionals with the goal of preparing students to be agents of positive change for the good of humanity. The course will encourage skill development for active citizenship that include leadership, communication, and management skills. Fall.
The first public health rotation/field experience will consist of seven weeks of full-time experience plus one week for finalizing documentation under the on-site supervision of a member of the public health work force in the first half of the semester. The student will be placed in a public health or related agency for ‘real world hands on’ experiences. This experience enables the student to emphasize proficiencies in the problem solving process and the areas focused on in the curriculum. A member of the Saint Francis University Public Health program faculty provides joint supervision of the intern. The public health faculty member will monitor the student’s progress off site. Progress will be determined through the use of written evaluation tools. Advisor permission required.
Completion of public health curriculum up to and including fall of senior year. Spring
PUBH 420Public Health Rotation 26
The second public health rotation/field experience will consist of seven weeks of full-time experience plus one week for finalizing documentation under the on-site supervision of a member of the public health work force in the second half of the semester. The student will be placed in a public health or related agency for ‘real world hands on’ experiences. This experience enables the student to emphasize proficiencies in the problem solving process and the areas focused on in the curriculum. A member of the Saint Francis University Public Health program faculty provides joint supervision of the intern. The public health faculty member will monitor the student’s progress off site. Progress will be determined through the use of written evaluation tools. Advisor permission required.
Completion of public health curriculum up to and including fall of senior year. Spring.
PUBH 430Capstone Project in Applied Learning3
This course builds on previous course work in the Public Health major and prepares the participant for ‘real world’ experiences they will encounter in PUBH 410 and PUBH 420 . Students continue to sharpen their skills in the process of finding, critically analyzing, and utilizing evidence germane to public health and the application of scholarly inquiry to problem solving and policy generation in public health. Students are asked to consider the importance of evidence that is found in peer-reviewed literature as it relates to decision making, policy development and implementation in public health.
