COURSE OVERVIEW

Public Health is a multidisciplinary field encompassing the theory and methods of the five core disciplines: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health management and policy, and social and behavioral sciences. Public health research and practice utilizeand integrate acrossthese disciplinesto understand and respond to health issues and challenges at the population and community level. This course will introduce and examine the evolution of definitions and concepts in the understanding of public health. It will be a means for improving critical thinking to understandpublic health as an evolving, multifaceted practice. Through a series of lectures, readings, discussions, and historical documentaries, this course presents an introduction to the core disciplines and the history and philosophy of public health. Historical examples of important publichealth challenges will beused to illustratethe nature, role, and organization of the public health response. This course is taught through a combination of approaches: lectures and group discussions. The set of assigned readings and written assignments will broaden the student’s understanding of topics covered in class and reinforce the concept of multidisciplinary integration in public health.

Course Learning Outcomes(CLOs)

After completion of this course successfully, the students will be able to

CLO-1.Describe key features of the historical developmentof public health, including the most important achievements of public health.

CLO-2.Identify and describe coref unctions of public health

CLO-3.Identify the role and contributions of each of the core disciplines in public health

CLO-4.Describe the various components of the national, state,and local public health systems

CLO-5.Understand the determinants of health from a global perspective, including environmental,social,cultural,behavioral,and biological factors.

CLO-6.Outline the concepts of prevention,detection,and control of infectious and chronic diseases

CLO-7.Explain the most important public health problems and issues facing society, including health disparities, aging, injuries, obesity, control of emerging diseases, and emergency preparedness

LEARNING GOALS:

Bythe end of this course,students should beable to:

1. Describe keyfeatures of the historical development of public health, including the most important achievements of public health.
2. Identify and describe core functions of public health
3. Identify the role and contributions of each of the core disciplines in public health
4. Describe the various components of the national, state, and local public health systems.
5. Understand the difference between personal health andpublic health.
6. Understand the determinants of health from a global perspective, including environmental, social, cultural, behavioral, and biological factors.
7. Outline the concepts of prevention, detection, and control of infectious and chronic diseases.
8. Explain the most important public health problems and issues facing society, including health disparities, aging, injuries, obesity, control of emerging diseases, and emergency preparedness.

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