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Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 1 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 1 POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 471 — INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH POPULATION HEALTH 3 credits. SCIENCES (POP HLTH) Impact of environmental problems on human health; biological hazards to human health from air and water pollution; radiation; pesticides; noise; problems related to food, occupation and environment of the work place; POP HLTH 370 — INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH: LOCAL TO accidents. Physical and chemical factors involved. Enroll Info: None GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Requisites: Junior standing 3 credits. Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural Introduces principles of public health. Uses local and global health Sci req problems as examples to introduce epidemiology and evidence-based Level - Intermediate public health, with a focus on closing the gap between science and L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S practice. Enroll Info: None Sustain - Sustainability Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Course Designation: Breadth - Either Social Science or Natural Science Last Taught: Spring 2021 Level - Intermediate POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 502 — AIR POLLUTION AND HUMAN HEALTH L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S 3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Toxicologic, controlled and epidemiologic studies on major air pollutants. Overview of study methods, lung physiology and pathology; air pollution POP HLTH/C&E SOC/SOC 380 — CONTEMPORARY POPULATION sources, types, meteorology, sampling methods, controls and regulations. PROBLEMS FOR HONORS Enroll Info: None 3 credits. Requisites: Junior standing Designed to identify, examine the nature and evaluate the evidence Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural regarding key population problems affecting modern societies in Sci req the developed and developing world. Emphasizes the development Level - Advanced of demographic models as a tool to frame, define and investigate L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S these problems. Examples of problems studied include: relations Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement between population growth and environment, population growth Sustain - Sustainability and socioeconomic development, population and emergence of new Repeatable for Credit: No diseases. Enroll Info: None Last Taught: Fall 2020 Requisites: C&E SOC/SOC 360 or concurrent enrollment POP HLTH/NURSING 525 — NURSING LEADERSHIP FOR GLOBAL Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science HEALTH Level - Intermediate 2-3 credits. L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Honors - Honors Only Courses (H) Designed to prepare undergraduate and graduate nursing students Repeatable for Credit: No for leadership in global health (GH) by examining their GH goals in a Last Taught: Fall 2012 framework that integrates knowledge from nursing with contemporary GH knowledge. Directed toward improving health of the global population POP HLTH/B M I 451 — INTRODUCTION TO SAS PROGRAMMING FOR as a whole, the framework addresses health trends, practice frameworks, POPULATION HEALTH the ecological model, ethics, nursing leadership roles, concepts of 2 credits. partnership and evidence-based practice. Enroll Info: None Use of the SAS programming language for the management and analysis Requisites: None of biomedical data. Enroll Info: None Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: Declared in the Population Health, Epidemiology or Clinical Last Taught: Fall 2016 Investigation graduate program. POP HLTH/ECON/PUB AFFR 548 — THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework 3-4 credits. requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Analysis of the health care industry. Markets for hospitals and physicians' Last Taught: Fall 2020 care, markets for health manpower, and the role of health insurance. Enroll Info: None Requisites: ECON 301, ECON 311, or PUB AFFR 880 Course Designation: Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Sustain - Sustainability Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 2 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) POP HLTH/B M I 551 — INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS FOR POP HLTH/M M & I 603 — CLINICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH POPULATION HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY 3 credits. 5 credits. Designed for population health researcher. Topics include descriptive Describe microorganisms of clinical and public health significance, statistics, elementary probability, probability distributions, one- and discuss issues and controversies of specimen receiving and processing, two-sample normal inference (point estimation, hypothesis testing, bacteremia, serodiagnosis of infectious agents, antimicrobial confidence intervals), power and sample size calculations, one- and two- susceptibility testing, laboratory management, and novel approaches to sample binomial inference, underlying assumptions and diagnostic work. detect infectious agents. Enroll Info: None Enroll Info: None Requisites: None Requisites: Declared in the Population Health, Epidemiology or Clinical Course Designation: Level - Intermediate Investigation graduate program. Not open to students with credit for L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S STAT/B M I 541 Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Repeatable for Credit: No requirement Last Taught: Spring 2019 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2020 POP HLTH/NUTR SCI 621 — INTRODUCTION TO NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY POP HLTH/B M I 552 — REGRESSION METHODS FOR POPULATION 1 credit. HEALTH 3 credits. Techniques used to evaluate relationships of diet to health and disease in human populations; integration of knowledge gained with results Introduction to the primary statistical tools used in epidemiology and of animal and clinical studies toward understanding dietary risk or health services research; multiple linear regression, logistic regression protective factors for disease. Includes advanced diet assessment and and survival analysis. Enroll Info: None basic epidemiologic approaches. Enroll Info: None Requisites: STAT/B M I 541 or POP HLTH/B M I 551 Requisites: STAT 301 and NUTR SCI 332, or graduate/professional Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework standing requirement Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework Repeatable for Credit: No requirement Last Taught: Spring 2021 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2020 POP HLTH/HIST SCI/MED HIST 553 — INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL SOCIETY POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX/ONCOLOGY/PHM SCI/PHMCOL-M 625 — 3 credits. TOXICOLOGY I 3 credits. Major problems in international health from 1750 to the present. Focus on disease epidemiology and ecology; political economy of health; Basic principles of toxicology and biochemical mechanisms of toxicity migration; quarantine; race, ethnicity, and health care; international health in mammalian species and man. Correlation between morphological and research; cross-cultural healing; mental and maternal health; growth of functional changes caused by toxicants in different organs of the body. international health organizations. Enroll Info: None Enroll Info: None Requisites: Junior standing Requisites: (BIOCHEM 501 or 508) and (ANAT&PHY 335, 435, or Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science (BIOCORE 485 486)) and PATH 404; or graduate/professional standing Level - Intermediate Course Designation: Breadth - Biological Sci. Counts toward the Natural L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Sci req Repeatable for Credit: No Level - Advanced Last Taught: Fall 2019 L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement POP HLTH/ENVIR ST 560 — HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL Repeatable for Credit: No ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Last Taught: Fall 2020 3 credits. Covers contemporary methods of impact assessment in a framework to address global environmental health threats (e.g., global climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, and urban sprawl). Issues dovetail well (but do not overlap) with Introduction to Environmental Health. Enroll Info: None Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2019 Population Health Sciences (POP HLTH) 3 POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX/PATH/PHM SCI/PHMCOL-M 626 — TOXICOLOGY POP HLTH 645 — GLOBAL HEALTH FIELD COURSE II 1-6 credits. 3 credits. A faculty-led field experience that exposes students to global health Survey of the basic methods and fundamental biochemical mechanisms work through discussion, observational activities and participation in of toxicity. Toxicity in mammalian organ systems, techniques for applied public health activities. Students will gain knowledge about evaluating toxicity, as well as mechanisms of species specificity, and health and disease, learn and practice cross-cultural skills, and explore environmental interactions (with toxicant examples) are presented. Enroll interdisciplinary approaches to health. Enroll Info: None Info: None Requisites: None Requisites: PHMCOL-M/POP HLTH/M&ENVTOX/ONCOLOGY/PHM
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