Health Promotion and Health Services Core
HPRB 3020S: Foundations of Health Promotion Examination of the philosophy and principles underlying the field of health promotion. Literature, research, organizations, theory, scientific foundations, and employment potential. Practical experience in the field.
HPRB 3700: Community Health Community health programs, including organizational structure of federal, state, and local health-related agencies. Analysis of the interrelationship of political, social, environmental, and economic dimensions of community health.
HPRB 3850E: Chronic Disease Prevention This course investigates the determinants and risk factors, describes the epidemiology, and examines the health behaviors that impact chronic disease prevention and control. Appropriate intervention, program, and evaluation planning for prevention and control is emphasized.
HPRB 5410W: Professional Writing for Health Promotion Builds writing skills for health sciences with emphases on research methods, reliable sources of health information, clear and accurate presentation of ideas and data, proper citation of information, and computer-mediated communication.
HPRB 4400: Health Promotion Program Development Health promotion program development in community, worksite, and hospital settings. Emphasis given to program content, strategies, overall planning, and implementation
HPRB 5900: Capstone in Health Promotion and Behavior Health promotion capstone course, with emphasis on professional development, leadership skills, communication, marketing and other media development, and web and social media presence.
Data Collection and Analytics
HPRB 5010: Research Design in Health Promotion An introduction to the research process, including the formulation of hypotheses, designing a study, collection of data, data analysis, and reporting research findings. Basic concepts in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are used to describe, analyze, and draw logical conclusions from data collected in health promotion research.
EPID 4070E: Fundamentals of Epidemiology Students will learn the fundamentals of epidemiology. Areas of emphasis include epidemiology definitions and practical applications, measures of morbidity and mortality, descriptive epidemiology, observational and experimental study designs, data interpretation issues, and selected areas of epidemiology.
BIOS 2010: Elementary Biostatistics Basic concepts of statistics with applications in health and life sciences. Descriptive statistics, principles of statistical inference, uncertainty assessment, hypothesis testing, public health surveys, and biomedical experimental design are considered. Methods include t-tests, simple linear regression, and categorical data analysis.
BIOS 3000E: Intermediate Biostatistics for Public Health Sciences A survey of statistical methods, with applications in public health and the biological sciences, including multiple regression, clinical trials, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, and logistic regression. Motivating examples are drawn from public health and bio-medicine.
Related Electives
CLAS 1030: Medical Terminology Medical terminology derived from Greek and Latin, concentrating on the meanings of the components of medical terms and the principles that govern their arrangement, with some attention to the history of ancient medicine.
EHSC 3060: Introduction to Environmental Health Science The fundamentals of environmental health (EH), covering energy and ecosystems, air and water pollution, toxic effects of pollution, pollution control, food and agriculture, environmental justice, and consequences of human activities on natural systems. Global issues in EH are compared from multiple demographic and cultural perspectives.
CLAS 1030: Medical Terminology Medical terminology derived from Greek and Latin, concentrating on the meanings of the components of medical terms and the principles that govern their arrangement, with some attention to the history of ancient medicine.
EHSC 3060: Introduction to Environmental Health Science The fundamentals of environmental health (EH), covering energy and ecosystems, air and water pollution, toxic effects of pollution, pollution control, food and agriculture, environmental justice, and consequences of human activities on natural systems. Global issues in EH are compared from multiple demographic and cultural perspectives.
HPAM 4600: Advanced Health Policy An advanced course in health policy building on Introduction to Health Policy. The course will focus on ongoing health care reform implementation, as well as topics such as drug development and regulation, health workforce shortages, and ethical issues related to new scientific developments.
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