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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Description: Multidisciplinary approach to the health-care needs of the elderly, including medication use, nutrition, health care agencies and roles of individual health care professionals. Graduate-level requirements include one in-depth research paper on a single topic relevant to geriatric care. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: PHSC 548; PHSC is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Considers child sexual and physical abuse, maltreatment and neglect, dating violence, date rape, stalking, domestic violence, workplace harassment, and abuse of elderly and disabled persons. Addresses frequency, causes, health impacts, cultural forces shaping responses, community services and prevention. Graduate-level students will be asked to complete a different type of term paper than the undergraduate students, please see syllabus. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): graduate students enrolled in MPH or other Master? programs with background in relevant fields or permission by instructor. Typical structure: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion. May be convened with: CPH 449. Usually offered: Fall.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Description: This course will provide a comprehensive global history of public health over 21 centuries. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Because the mass media in our society are both pervasive and persuasive, a growing area of interest in public health is the use of mass communications media for promoting healthy lifestyle, behavior and policy change. This course is designed to familiarize students with the process of communicating public health information, goals, and objectives, and the application of mass communication technologies to construct effective health promotion interventions. Using a critical studies framework, the course will describe how mass communication strategies can be used in a planned way to influence health behavior change. It will include a review of health communications theories, social marketing, media literacy, health literacy, media advocacy, assessment of audiences and their needs, as well as campaign design, implementation and evaluation. Selected health mass communication campaigns will be critically reviewed and students will be asked to develop a mass communications health promotion intervention, using a variety of channels, messages and materials, and develop a plan for assessing effectiveness, using a variety of communication research methods. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): CPH 577 recommended. Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Principles of toxicology related to industry and the environment; dose response; mechanisms of toxicity; hazard evaluation principles; toxicology of major classes of industrial and environmental compounds Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: PCOL 553. Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: The Musculoskeletal System Block covers the structures of the upper and lower extremities and spine with a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamental tissues of bone, joint, muscle, and ligaments. The goals are to enable students to learn how the normal and abnormal mechanisms of development and disease of these structures are relevant to pediatrics, geriatrics, traumatic injury and rehabilitation. In this manner, students will be introduced to common diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Graduate-level requirements include preparing a group presentation and demonstrate a greater understanding in written work through use of cases, examples and literature citation. Grading scales are the same but percent emphasis and expected response-depth vary. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): CPH 456 can not count as CPH 556; CPH 583 must be substituted. May be convened with: CPH 456, MEDP 812. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: N SC 560. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Considers intimate partner sexual, physical, and psychological abuse from a global public health perspective. Addresses epidemiology -- prevalence, risk factors, associations with mortality and morbidity, cultural forces, medical responses, community services and prevention. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): open to MPH students or graduate students in social science, family studies, nursing, or social work. Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course provides a foundation in Health Services Administration. The course introduces the student to the structure and functions of the U.S. Health Care System. The health care system in the community and its environment are examined to determine how they impact Health Services Administration. Topics to be covered include: overview of the U.S. Health Care System (private and public sectors), interface between Public Health and U.S. Health Care System, various health care delivery structures, health care workforce, health care resources, types of health services, financing of health services and health care coverage, meeting the health care needs of special populations, and critical issues in health services. The student will conduct a community health system analysis. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): Open to graduate students admitted into the MPH program. May be repeated: for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments). Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will provide an introduction to Border Health Policy issues, including legal, organizational, and public health challenges facing border communities. The course will examine border health issues with the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the classroom to current policy issues confronting Arizona Mexico Commission Health Services Committee (AMC), Border Governors Conference Health Workgroup (BGC) and/or the U.S. Mexico Border Health Commission, (BHC). Students will work in teams of 3 or 4 students with the AMC, BGC and/or BHC (or issues identified by the student) on a policy issue of interest. Each team will produce a final report and oral presentation detailing the findings and recommendations of the issue under question from a policy perspective. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): PA 517 recommended. Usually offered: Fall.
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