Public Health Course Summary

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Principles of Public Health: This course provides a broad framework for understanding public health’s role in community health, prevention, and medicine. Principles of epidemiology: This course introduces me to the basic principles of epidemiology as they apply to public health practice from a historical perspective on epidemiology, descriptive epidemiology, effect measures, study designs, bias, surveillance, and screening for disease. It emphasis investigative techniques, epidemiological methodology, critical thinking, and importance of epidemiological studies and data. Biostatistics: This course introduces me to the use of probability and statistics with a basic knowledge of algebra and arithmetic to determine statistical significance of …show more content…
Social and Behavioral Health: The course provides me with the foundation in the application of social and behavioral science to public health. In addition, it provides me with the historical and current perspectives on basic public health concepts, analytic frameworks, and intervention strategies that can be applied to current public health issues from a psychological, sociological and anthropological perspective to understand the determinants of health and intervention. Public Health Law and Ethics: This course provides me with the knowledge of public health law and ethics and the role of government in protecting and supporting the health of the public, implementation of health policies legally and ethically for the better good without infringing on the right and liberties of individuals, and …show more content…
Health Information Systems: This course is about the interdisciplinary practice of managing and analyzing large data sets in all areas of health care and the challenges of collecting and analyzing data for use in informing patients and improve health outcomes. Public Health Policy and Management: This course provides me with the understanding of how health policy is developed and implemented in the US as it relates to key drivers of policy such as cost, quality and access to medicine in an efforts to protect and promote the health of the US population. Global Health: This course introduces me to critical issues in global health utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to understanding global health problems such as poverty, maternal and child health, food security, environmental health, chronic disease, and infectious disease. In addition, it provides me with an understanding of emergency preparedness and community response to