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3.00 Credits
Examines options in contraceptive technology and accompanying social, cultural, political, and ethical considerations. Introduces policy issues and programmatic strategies related to development, organization, and management of familyplanning programs--including logistics, education, politics, and social issues. Includes fertility issues, prevention and postponement of pregnancy, child spacing, and abortion. Explores information, education, and communication designs.
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3.00 Credits
Concepts of lactation management. Clinical problem assessment and solutions. Issues in lactation program design and implementation. Includes breast feeding within a developmental framework and cultural impacts on lactation. Scope of practice and legal issues. Prepares for lactation-management examination.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study of mental-health issues affecting society and its basic biologic unit, the family. Study and application of intervening strategies in life crises. Prevention of adjustment reactions evolving beyond the level of a life-process crisis. Laboratory included.
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3.00 Credits
The second part of a three-part, module-based course. Provides a comprehensive overview of the pathophysiology that underlies the health impact of tobacco use on individuals, families, and society; smoking behavior; pharmacodynamics of nicotine delivery; mechanisms of nicotine addiction, and most importantly, intervention methods (cessation and prevention). Includes individual, group, systems, and public intervention strategies; and provides the measures of efficacy for each. Incorporates terminology and concepts in epidemiology, anatomy, physiology, immunology, endocrinology and biochemistry. Recommended that EPDM 561, 562 also be completed if HPRO 565 is taken as an elective.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on issues of reproductive health of women and men within the context of public health policy, community-based planning, and ethical decision making. Examines public health interventions at various points of the reproductive life cycle, including pubertal, preconceptual, and menopausal. Explores issues that affect health and fertility--including sexually transmitted diseases; reproductive tract infections; sexual violence, such as rape, incest, and genital mutilation; sexual trafficking; and nutritional and lifestyle issues impacting directly on reproductive health.
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3.00 Credits
Basic preparation for development and leadership of exercise programs. Includes exercise physiology, training, acute and chronic effects of exercise, simple assessment of fitness, role of exercise in prevention of common health problems, and management of selected risk factors. Discusses endurance, strength, flexibility, and aerobic exercises. Laboratory included.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the biological and behavioral consequences from evidence-based scientific research of the relationships and communications between the brain, the peripheral nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system. Presents an introductory but comprehensive summary of various scientific disciplines that study brain--immune system--and healthbehavior interactions that provide the health care professional with an integrative understanding of lifestyle whole-person care for optimal immune system function and wellness.
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3.00 Credits
Physiologic basis of the normal body function during exercise. Emphasizes the training effects of aerobic exercise. Noninvasive laboratory methods of the study of the circulatory and respiratory systems. Laboratory included. Prerequisite: HPRO 573; and basic physiology.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the physical, psychological, and social factors that influence the health of the aging population. Includes theories of aging, age-related changes, acute and chronic health problems of aging, medication use, and long-term care issues.
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1.00 Credits
Provides overview of preventive care's role within public health. Orientation to doctoral program, with attention to professional portfolio preparation. Limited to doctoral degree students in preventive care.
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