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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Assesses the health effects of natural and man-made disasters and identifies factors that contribute to these effects. Addresses selection of health indicators in disaster situations; means of evaluating data collected within the constraints of the disaster situation; reporting systems; techniques of statistical sampling; and modern information-technology systems used for emergency preparedness, including rapid computerization of post-disaster health information. Analyzes risk factors for adverse health effects; discusses baseline for measuring trends over time and monitoring population-based mortality; and identifies limitations and weaknesses of methods of disaster assessment. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the immediate, critical public health considerations and environmental health issues of concern in an emergency or disaster, including safe drinking water and food, shelter, sanitation, and prevention of communicable diseases. Explores these topics in depth as they pertain to disaster and emergency planning, response, and mitigation. Utilizes case studies and a table-top exercise to ensure practical application of the principles presented in the class.
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3.00 Credits
Major models of stress, crisis, and psychological trauma; and how they relate to health care providers. Psychosocial reactions and responses of populations, individuals, and care providers to societal disruption and trauma, medical emergencies, and death and dying. Applies principles for suicide intervention, critical incident debriefings, and death notification. Roles of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family therapists, and chaplains. Methods of providing temporary, adequate psychological care for individuals in psychosocial crisis. Cross-listing: AHCJ 324.
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3.00 Credits
Addresses economic, legal, and policy issues arising from disasters. Overview of economic disaster-assistance models and practices for individuals and communities, including grants, loans, and hazard-mitigation programs. Examines the confluence of disaster legislation and policy; public health law; disaster declarations; and the authority of federal, state, and local governments. Implications of vulnerable populations, socioeconomic assessments, population displacement, and sustainable development.
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3.00 Credits
A module-based course (the first of a three-part series) that presents a comprehensive overview of the tobacco pandemic and provides a foundation for understanding global/national tobacco-prevention and -control issues and strategies. Explores the epidemiology of this growing public health challenge and its significant impact on societal health and economics. Examines the underlying principles governing the multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary approaches developed as part of the coordinated public health response (within the context of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control). Introduces basic techniques of monitoring, surveillance and evaluation as used in tobacco- prevention/control programs.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the theoretical foundation for tobacco control. Considers the impact of tobacco-control policy and legislative and regulatory measures on prevalence, initiation, and cessation of tobacco use. Compares the effect of socioeconomic status variables on measures of smoking behavior among racial/ethnic groups. Reviews validity studies in tobacco use. Explores clustering of tobacco use with other drugs, other risk behavior, and psychiatric disorders. Estimates sensitivity and specificity of individual and environmental factors that influence the susceptibility of individuals to tobacco dependence. Includes issues such as counteracting the tobacco industry and forming effective partnerships in tobacco control; monitoring, surveillance, evaluation, and reporting of tobacco use and control; and developing a national plan of action for tobacco control.
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3.00 Credits
The first of a three-part series of module-based learning experiences necessary to the management of primary health care and development programs serving vulnerable populations in resource-scarce areas. Current world health programs, with a focus on the ecologic, demographic, developmental, and sociocultural determinants of health. Topical areas include: program management and evaluation; food security and agricultural sustainability; communicable diseases; essential drugs and immunizations; population/family planning, maternal-child health; traditional practices and cross-cultural communications; environmental issues; urban health; populations at risk; relief operations; literacy; microenterprise; and public health policy/advocacy.
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2.00 Credits
A module-based course that presents selected methodological techniques and skills useful in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of primary health care programs--particularly in international settings. Student describes key principles in program planning, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable public health programs in international settings; becomes familiar with the use of specific tools and approaches associated with program planning, implementation, and evaluation (including the use of the Logical Framework Analysis or LogFRAME model); demonstrates the ability to plan and conduct a 30-cluster sample survey to assess immunization coverage; develops and presents a project-specific detailed implementation plan (DIP); understands and summarizes the key aspects of project-evaluation methods, as required by international funding agencies. Prerequisite: EPDM 509, STAT 509. Corequisite: EPDM 568.
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3.00 Credits
The second of a three-part series of module-based learning experiences necessary to the management of primary health care and development programs serving vulnerable populations in resource-scarce areas. Current world health programs, with a focus on the ecologic, demographic, developmental, and sociocultural determinants of health. Topical areas include: program management and evaluation; food security and agricultural sustainability; communicable diseases; essential drugs and immunizations; population/family planning, maternal-child health; traditional practices and cross-cultural communications; environmental issues; urban health; populations at risk; relief operations; literacy; microenterprise; and public health policy/advocacy.
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3.00 Credits
Approaches and methodology of evaluation in the setting of multiple stakeholders and varied cultural perspectives and expectations. Need for objectivity and improved measurement of outcomes balanced with the need for participation and feedback to the decision-making process. Limited to doctoral degree students or consent of instructor.
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