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3.00 Credits
Description: This is a graduate level course that examines Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) as a research paradigm to understand and address health disparities at the community level. Through class discussions and assignments, students will become familiar with the paradigm shift, developing methodology and ethical challenges posed by CBPAR. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): Graduate Student in Public Health or related field. CPH 566 is recommended. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of injury by environmental chemicals. Content includes reactive intermediates and oxidants, DNA and protein adducts, DNA repair, rotooncogene activation and tumor suppressor gene inactivation, apoptosis and cell death mechanisms, mechanisms of molecular mutagenesis, stress responses, signaling cascades, cell cycle controls, cell-cell communication and intercellular signaling in injury, and chemical and molecular biomarkers of exposure and injury. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): PCOL 602A. Identical to: PCOL 610; PCOL is home department. Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Cultural, social, behavioral, and organizational foundations of pharmacy, including the development of the present state of practice. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: PHSC 611; PHSC is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Survey of the theory, measurement, and applications of patient-reported health outcomes, specifically health-related quality of life and consumer assessments of health care. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: PHSC 612; PHSC is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: An overview of the current issues and methods in cancer epidemiological studies. Issues and methods used in cancer surveillance, international studies, observational studies, and intervention trials will be covered. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): EPID 573A; Prerequisite or Concurrent registration, EPID 576A. Identical to: EPID 615A; EPID is home department. Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): EPID 615A, EPID 573A. Identical to: EPID 615B; EPID is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will discuss and explore the intricacies of public health and rural policy analysis in a context of competing ethics, values, and powers. Students will learn to critically appraise public health policy analyses and rural public health policy analyses and to perform relatively simple analyses. Students will be trained to recognize stakeholder sensitivities, perceptions, and views. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): Admitted to MEZCOPH MPH, DrPH or PhD programs or by consent of instructor. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will discuss and explore the of intricacies of policy analysis in a context of competing ethics, values, and powers. Students will learn to critically appraise policy analyses. Students will be trained to recognize stakeholder sensitivities, perceptions, and views. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): MEZCOPH Dr.P.H. or Ph.D. student or by consent of instructor. Typical structure: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion. Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is a tool to provide basic understanding of the role of legal and illegal drugs of abuse on human biology and the addictive processes. Using this information the major focus will be to understand the problems and opportunities for treatment and prevention relevant to current and past policy issues. The public health implications of several Arizona and national policy decisions in treatment and prevention will be a major focus. The course will orient epidemiologists and public health students to future roles that involve interacting with physicians and research biologists in assessing and modifying drug abuse. About 66% of the course will focus on the two major legal drugs of abuse, alcohol and tobacco which cause most of the morbidity and mortality. The other major class focus is on use of literature to develop understanding of an illegal drug of abuse and the biology and public health consequences of their use. Each student will select, describe, and write up the essence of addiction, pathogenesis, treatment, prevention, and current public health policy aspects of an illegal drug of abuse. Then the student will present orally information on an illegal drug of abuse to the class, modeling future work experiences. The lectures support learning about the biology, addiction process and then clinical significance of different drugs of abuse, emphasizing prevention, treatment and public health consequences Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): CPH 577. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: An overview of historical and theoretical perspectives on communication strategies used in social influence attempts from interpersonal to mass media contexts. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: COMM 620; COMM is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
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