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PHC: Public Health Concentration Courses 1 PHC 4101 Essentials of Public Health PHC: Public Health College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin Concentration Courses 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) Course teaches basic terms and definitions of public health and the factors leading to disease causation as well as disease prevention. Courses Students study programs and policies that effect healthcare in a positive manner and apply basic principles of scientific reasoning with PHC 2082 Informatics and Your Health the use of available data and information. Topics introduced serve as a College of Health, Department of Public Health basis for enhancing the participants' ability to critically evaluate current 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) trends in healthcare and develop programs and policies in an analytical Multi-disciplinary exploration of the nature of information - how it is manner. represented, processed, shared, preserved, and protected in tools and PHC 4109 Diseases in Human Populations applications directly linked to your health and the health of our planet. College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin Identifies enduring principles; examines impacts on individuals and 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) society; provides practice with a variety of digital technologies and data collection strategies; addresses interpreting results of and concerns An overview of scientific principles of public health and their application in human subject research. This course helps students develop to public health problems with significant state, national, and integral professional and technical skills, including presentation of international impact. It is recommended that students have at least one ideas through written and verbal communication, within an informatics semester of a college science such as biology or a comparable course framework. Students will have the opportunity to focus on a particular before enrolling. technology company or issue as a mechanism for developing critical PHC 4140 Public Health Planning and Analysis thinking and teamwork skills. Meets General Education requirement in College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin Natural Sciences. 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) PHC 3767 Globalization and Public Health College of Health, Department of Public Health This course introduces students to the history of public health, the structure of the public health system and the various sectors of public 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) health practice, in order to gain an understanding of the complex The course examines the role of globalization in the burden of disease factors that determine the health status of a community. Lectures will and global cooperation in development of interventions that promote draw from the public health field, but also related disciplines such as health and avert transmission of transboundary pathogens across behavioral sciences, healthcare management, medical ethics, and national boundaries and continents. The course will discuss the role social work. National, state, and local level practices will be analyzed, of multinational and bilateral global collaborations for addressing as well as the role that law and government play in the public's health. health issues that cross national borders. The emerging threats require The course is also intended to simulate student interest in other public consistent multinational approaches and an informed public health health courses and program offerings. Graduate students will be workforce at all levels of practice. The course will use case studies to assigned additional work. examine the impact of globalization on human health. PHC 4340 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene PHC 4024 Applied Research Methods in Public Health College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin College of Health, Department of Public Health 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) An online-multidisciplinary approach to the study of industrial hygiene In this applied course, students will learn how to conduct and interpret intended for a wide range of health related professionals. Recognition, research in population health and disease, building on their knowledge evaluation and control of environmental or occupational hazards. from epidemiology and biostatistics and other content areas in public Insight into the management of occupational health hazards and health. The course will provide skills in critically reading the literature diseases that can be leveraged in a professional practice. Offered related to public health-related research, developing a research concurrently with PHC 5356; graduate students will be assigned question and a testable hypothesis, creating an analysis plan, and additional work. dissemination of results in paper and digital modes. The course will PHC 4341 Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health cover quantitative and qualitative research methods commonly used in College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin public health research and practice. 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) Concerns worker protection and serves as a prerequisite for advanced study of hazards and work settings. Development and management of occupational safety and health programs, resolution of safety and health issues, and improvement of safety performance. Introduction to safety and health fields, overview of loss control information and analysis, specific safety and health programs, and program implementation and maintenance. Offered concurrently with PHC 5355; graduate students will be assigned additional work. 2 PHC: Public Health Concentration Courses PHC 4363 Occupational Safety and Health in the Health Care PHC 5050 Biostatistics for Public Health Environment College of Health, Department of Public Health College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) This is a second course in biostatistics for students in the graduate A multidisciplinary approach to the study of occupational safety and Public Health program. The topics include descriptive statistics, health in health care with researcher and practitioner perspectives. probability, standard probability distributions, sampling distributions, Programs and applications to health care. Common worker safety point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, power hazards and controls are reviewed and safety improvement strategies and same size estimation, one and two-sample parametric and non- are presented. Teaches recognition of safety and hazards in health parametric methods for analyzing continuous or discrete data, simple care, relevant safety and health standards requirements, and linear regression, logistic regression and other multivariate methods. identification and implementation of safety improvement initiatives. Students will use a statistical software package for data management Permission is required. Offered concurrently with PHC 5351; graduate and statistical analyses. This is a fully online course with its own office students will be assigned additional work. hours and discussions. STA 2023 or equivalent is a pre-requisite PHC 4464 Understanding Health Equity and Health Disparities for this course (see UWF Catalog). It is important to have a good College of Health, Department of Public Health understanding of inferential statistics, such as confidence intervals and test of hypotheses (for two samples). Students must have completed 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) STA 2023 or equivalent in college. This course introduces students to social determinants of health, PHC 5102 Principles of Public Health health equity, and health disparities in the United States. This course College of Health, Department of Public Health provides students with an overview of the societal impacts of racism, poverty, and inequity and the ways these constructs are contributing 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) health disparities among individuals and communities. Students will This course introduces students to the history of public health, the explore sources of data for health disparities analysis. The course structure of the public health system and the various sectors of public further explores the role of major national stakeholders and programs health practice, in order to gain an understanding of the complex addressing social determinants of health contributing to disparities factors that determine the health status of a community. Lectures will and implementing evidence-based strategies for eliminating health draw from the public health field, but also related disciplines such as inequalities. behavioral sciences, healthcare management, medical ethics, and PHC 4905 Directed Study social work. National state, and local level practices will be analyzed, College of Health, Department of Health Sciences & Admin as well as the role that law and government play in the public's health. The course is also intended to stimulate student interest in other public 1-12 sh (may be repeated indefinitely for credit) health courses and program offerings. PHC 4930 Public Health Seminar PHC 5108 Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health College of Health, Department of Public Health College of Health, Department of Public Health 3-6 sh (may be repeated for up to 6 sh of credit) 3 sh (may not be repeated for credit) This public health seminar course presents current topics in the public The course provides students