The Public Health major at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, housed in the College of Arts and Science (CAS), is a field of study focused on preventing illness and promoting health in individuals, communities, and society as a whole. This program builds on the university’s strengths in 3 areas: human disease and epidemiology; health policy and administration; and public health promotion and education.
Public Health is a field of study focused on preventing illness and promoting health in individuals, communities, and society as a whole. The Public Health major at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú builds on the university's strengths in 3 areas:
Students in the Public Health major choose to complete their concentration in Human Disease and Epidemiology, Health Policy and Administration, or Public Health Promotion. Doing so will complete all of the requirements of the College of Arts and Science.
This concentration utilizes basic concepts in biology and focuses on the factors that cause illness and promote health in human populations. This concentration explores differences in health across time and population subgroups as well as the reasons for those differences.
This concentration focuses on critical policy and programmatic issues in public health. The emphasis of this concentration is to examine how public policy impacts the public health delivery system and how administrators work to develop and implement programs in the field of public health.
This concentration examines the principles and practices of health promotion to address current and emerging public health problems. The focus of the concentration is on the development of public health education prevention strategies across the life span.
| Learning Objective | Core Courses Addressing Objective |
|---|---|
| Identify and address the concepts of population health, and the basic processes, approaches, and interventions which focus on the major health-related needs and concerns of populations | Introduction to Public Health Social and Health Policy Applied Health Behavior Change |
| Describe the basic concepts of legal, ethical, economic, and regulatory dimensions of health care and public health policy | Social and Health Policy Introduction to Public Health |
| Integrate the core elements of public health with a selected area of specialization to recognize how the field of public health applies to individuals, communities, and society overall | Advanced Epidemiology Capstone (Concentration 1) Internship Capstone (Concentration 2) Internship or Research Capstone (Concentrations 3 and 4) |
| Learning Objective | Courses Addressing Objective |
|---|---|
| Describe the underlying science of human health and disease including opportunities for promoting and protecting health across the life course | Introduction to Public Health Epidemiology Human Physiology Introduction to Cell Biology Biological Concepts |
| Demonstrate the use of research tools and analytic methods to critically analyze, monitor, and assess the health status of populations and current public health-related issues | Epidemiology Advanced Epidemiology Microorganisms and Human Disease Doctors, Clinics, and Epidemics Immunology Principles |
| Learning Objective | Courses Addressing Objective |
|---|---|
| Evaluate the impact of policies and legislation on individual and population health | Policies and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in an Aging Society Public Policy Analysis Public Administration |
| Explain the fundamental characteristics and organizational structure of the U.S. health systems as well as the differences in systems in other countries | Social Policy and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in Gerontology Social and Health Public Health Policy Policy and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in an Aging Society Developing Solutions in Global Health Health Economics Public Policy Analysis |
The Public Health Education and Health Promotion track is designed to provide breadth and depth of knowledge in the psychosocial and behavioral aspects of health across the human lifespan.
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