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PBH 101 - Introduction to Public HSC 200 - Introduction to Health with examples of the application of
Health Management these models to health promotion
Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 and disease prevention with
individuals, groups, and communities.
Prerequisite: (Co) ENG 102/ENG 200 Prerequisites: EHS 205 PBH 310 - Principles of Health
+ (Co) FWS 100
This course will introduce Promotion
This course addresses a variety of students to management in the Credit Hours: 3
themes in public health which serve health environment, covering
as a base for an introductory-level definitions, concepts, issues, and Prerequisite: HSC 201
understanding of the field. This the basic dimensions of health This course provides students with
course emphasizes the diverse, care management. The course an understanding of the history,
multidisciplinary perspectives also introduces students to core approaches, values, and principles of
on public health. It introduces challenges, responsibilities, and health promotion.
core disciplines of public health: professional ethics in healthcare
prevention, protection and assurance. management as well as planning and PBH 320 - Community and Public
decision making in healthcare sector. Health Nutrition
HSC 210 - Epidemiology &
Population Health HSC 201 - Determinants of Credit Hours: 3
Public Health
Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisite: PBH 300
Prerequisite: HSC 205 Credit Hours: 3 This course aims to introduce
Prerequisites: ENS 205 students to key concepts and current
This course introduces students
to the scientific discipline of This course will introduce students topics in community nutrition. The
epidemiology. It covers definitions to different public health paradigms, course will focus on the role of
and concepts of epidemiology including the biomedical, behavioral, nutrition in improving the health and
together with the principles and and holistic, ecological, salutogenic well-being of communities and will
tools of epidemiology. The course paradigms. Various models of familiarize students with population
includes measuring the frequency of public health determinants within nutritional status assessment,
health issues, measuring risk and the the holistic, ecological, salutogenic principles of nutrition research,
burden of disease. Epidemiological paradigm and the One Health and factors involved in planning,
study designs are explored, Approach are explored. The course implementing and evaluating
including descriptive, analytical and then examines specific determinants community nutrition programs and
intervention studies. Survey research, of public health including biological policies. The course combines theory
as a methodology that can be factors, socioeconomic factors, and practice where students will
used across many study designs, is cognitive and affective factors, health discuss, analyze, and experiment with
addressed. Issues related to weighing behaviors, and conditions within the theories of behavioral change and
up the evidence from such studies social, economic, political, natural will apply the principles of nutrition
and ethical issues in epidemiology are and built environments and their education as part of the course
explored. interactions. nutrition project tackling a specific
nutritional problem.
HSC 205 - Biostatistics PBH 300 - Health Sociology PBH 420 - Practice of Health
Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Promotion
Prerequisite: STT 100 Prerequisite: HSC 201 Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students Co-requisite: PBH 310 Prerequisite: PBH 310
to population health statistics.
The course covers sources and This course focuses on the This course provides students with
types of data, measures of central contribution of social and behavioral the knowledge and skills required to
tendency, measures of dispersion, sciences to the understanding of the identify health needs and assets, and
confidence intervals, correlations and distribution, etiology, and solution plan, implement and evaluate health
regressions used in public health and of public health problems. The promotion initiatives addressing such
environmental health and safety. theoretical underpinnings of the health needs and assets. The course
most relevant explanation, planning, will explore needs assessment and
change, and evaluation theories will planning models, theories that inform
be reviewed in depth and illustrated strategy development, and evaluation

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