University of Virginia's College at Wise · Courses
PBH
4 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 3010Introduction to Global Health3
Credit(s) 3 This interdisciplinary course combines classroom discussion and interactive instruction to introduce key concepts and current issues in global health, emphasizing the challenges diseases and conditions of global importance, patterns of mortality and morbidity, social, economic and political determinants, social inequalities, and the population based and institutional responses to prevent and control disease. The course will challenge students to consider how “Global = Local”, exploring connections and similarities between “global health” and public health in the United States, especially within the Appalachian Region. It is designed to support a liberal arts education through the development of social responsibility, critical thinking, communication skills, and increased knowledge of the world.
PBH 3020Introduction to Public Health: Appalachian Perspective3
Credit(s) 3 Introduction to Public Health: Appalachian Perspectives is designed to introduce students to the field of public health, including historical development, foundational principles, and contemporary issues focusing on the challenges of rural public health and health disparities in central Appalachia. The course will allow for a broad understanding of the many factors which influence health, including behavior, history, culture, geography, society, environment, and policy, and the relationship of these to disease, prevention, health promotion and successful public health interventions. Students will develop the critical thinking skills required to identify and examine a health issue and propose recommendations intervention using current data, literature, evidence-based best practices, and an understanding of the levels of influence and the importance of change and intervention at the individual, interpersonal, community and societal levels. The course will prepare students to promote a healthy citizenry, no matter what their field of study and career choice.
