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3.00 Credits
This course examines the extent/causes of social inequalities in health. The focus is on individual, community and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.
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2.00 Credits
The purpose of this course will be to explore a few areas in health care and how movies shape the general public's perception of public health. Areas to consider are: epidemiology, disaster management, mental health issues, access to care, treatment options for disease, and the role of health care providers. The class will include watching movies related to a specified area, discussion groups, and a paper analyzing how reality and movies are different and what kind of education may be needed to change public perception.
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2.00 Credits
This course will break down the epidemiological methods involved in basic epidemiology investigation/methods and the connection to emergency preparedness. This course will also cover decision making, inferences, cultural considerations, and past historical events.
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3.00 Credits
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of "Informatics" and its application in a Public Health setting. The goal of Public Health Informatics is for students to understand the basic technological tools and building blocks needed to develop and manage Public Health data collection systems to meet analytical needs. Students will learn how show students how to take these systems and implement them successfully in Public Health environments.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a combination of the Basic Disaster Life Support and Advance Disaster Life Support certifications. It is offered through the Intermountain Center for Disaster Preparedness (ICDP) located at LDS Hospital. At the end of the course, the student will have a certification for both BDLS and ADLS. The Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) course is an interactive class that prepares health professionals for the management of injuries and illnesses caused by disasters and public health emergencies. The Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS) course is an intense class that prepares health professionals for any catastrophic event that might impact the ability of health response systems to meet the needs of all affected populations. This course allows participants to demonstrate competencies in mass casualty management and population-based care across a range of disasters. There is a certification fee of $140 associated with this course.
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4.00 Credits
This study experience will provide students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Spanish language while exploring Colombian culture, social movements, and history. Students will also study first hand aspects of this country's diverse landscapes, geology, ecology, sustainable agriculture, as well as its approach to public health and environmental challenges. Students will actively participate in public health and environmental-based service learning projects with local community partners. This course will also involve field projects to (1) evaluate the ecosystem services provided by paramos (unique mountain wetlands) and their impact on water quality, (2) quantify the impacts of agriculture on soils, and (3) evaluate the impacts of improper waste disposal in an urban canyon on water quality parameters in the associated stream. This course fulfills the Engagin the World requirement. Students will further connect these field studies to service learning projects in the same communities by developing and implementing a community survey instrument on public health and perceptions of the environment. Students will then combine their scientific findings with the results of the community survey and their understanding of the culture to develop an educational campaign targeted at elementary students to increase awareness of environmental issues of importance in the community. Through these projects and their observations of the local communities, students will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Latin American culture in this region and examine how the environment and landscape in Colombia influence national social movements.
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4.00 Credits
This course involves an in-depth ethical investigation of human activity in two world-changing forms: (a) scientific research and its applications and (b) the socio-economic development of the (natural) world and of human beings. Both sorts of activities, sometimes overlapping in significant ways, aim to increase human welfare (of some or all human beings). While this aim is ethically defensible, does it sometimes or often take place according to the questionable principle of expediency: the ends justify the means? Are these forms of human activities often carried out at the expense of the welfare of other species, the environment as a whole? Just because we can, should we?
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4.00 Credits
Participants will travel to Western India to explore and understand social, cultural, economic, and environmental determinants of health through coursework, field trips, and service learning activities, primarily in the village of Wai, Maharashtra. Students will engage with local schools, women's groups, and community centers to advance community health and social entrepreneurship, primarily through the art of storytelling. Students and local community members will share and record their exchanges through written, oral, or visual stories that will be the basis of a multimedia reflective project that students will submit after the trip. In addition to immersion and service work in Wai, students will gain a broad appreciation for the range of Indian culture, history, and health conditions by visiting sites of cultural importance. Trip leaders have expertise in global health, Indian culture, literature, and storytelling, and social entrepreneurship. The transformative learning that takes place through active listening and learning with community groups and first hand observations of the broader pursuit of health and wellbeing in India will shape each student's personal philosophy of global citizenship.
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4.00 Credits
We are surrounded by data. Even when we're unaware of it, data informs key systems upon which we rely: transportation, politics, computing, medicine, and commerce, just to name a few. In this course, we seek to develop an understanding of the nature of data-what it is, how it is gathered and stored, what it purports to measure, and what it actually measures. Quantitative tools are developed to analyze data while simultaneously exploring the value and limitations of such analysis. The ultimate goal is to connect data to the process of making decisions, with examples from a variety of fields used to illustrate its successes and failures.
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4.00 Credits
This past October, in a South Carolina high school, a Black teenage girl was violently flipped out of her desk chair by the school resource officer while her Black male teacher passively looked on. The schoolteacher had called the officer because this Black teenage girl refused to put away her phone or some other typical teenage behavior. The video of this incident was captured on phones by other students in the class and spread like wild fire over social media. Quickly-too quickly-a cacophony of voices rose to justify the officer's excessive use of force, while others cried out in anger and pain at the violence enacted on this Black teenage girl. Why was the national outcry over this incident so mixed? This course sets out to investigate a set of complex question: does the U.S. deny Black women love? What is the relationship between love and citizenship? Why are Black women both vilified in the news media and sexually glorified in music videos? Through a variety of disciplinary perspectives-history, law sociology, cultural anthropology, visual art and literature-we will focus on the key issues of Black feminist theory that can help shed light on the longevity of public policies and laws put into place during slavery that allows for the systematic abuse of Black women and how this manifest today in law, education, culture and society. This course will begin by investigating Black female stereotypes-such as jezebel, sapphire and the mammy and their more recent manifestations such as welfare queen and baby mama-and how these manifest in the court of law, political speeches and in stand-up acts by popular Black comedians to understand how sexism, class oppression and racism deny Black women basic human rights.
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