School of Health Sciences - HSCI 201: Principles of Public Health Science
Course website: https://courses.pnhs.purdue.edu/hsci201/ (password protected)
Instructor: James D. McGlothlin, M.P.H., Ph.D., C.P.E.
Format: Lecture
Credits: 3.0
Description
This course begins with a definition of public health and a review of its history and its role in disease prevention. The basic tools of public health practice, vital statistics and epidemiology, are then presented. After gaining an understanding of how these tools are used in assessing the health status of a community, the etiology and control of infectious and non-infectious threats to our health will be examined. The course concludes with risk analysis as a basis for public health policy determination.
Goals of the Course:
- To impart a knowledge of the basic principles of public health
- To learn of the many factors causal to disease and the maintenance of health
- To understand the complexity and multiplicity of disciplines in the practice of public health.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the students should:
- Understand the basic terms and definitions of public health
- Understand the causal factors to disease causation and disease prevention
- Understand the complex "fabric" of public health (at the local, state and federal levels) with regard to how the different disciplines of public health work independently and together in the practice of public health surveillance and disease prevention.
Textbook:
Topics covered include:
- Concepts and principles of community health.
- Organizations that contribute to community health
- Epidemiology: The study of disease, injury, and death in the community
- Epidemiology: Prevention and control of diseases and health conditions:
- Community Organizations and Health Promotion Planning: Two Important Tools of Community Health
- The School Health Program: A Component of Community Health
- The Nation's Health
- Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
- Young Adults, and Adults
- Seniors
- Community Health and Minorities
- Community Mental Health
- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: A Community Concern
- Health Care Delivery
- Health Care System: Structure
- Health Care System Function
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Environmental Concerns: Wastes and Pollution
- The Impact of Environment On Human Health
- Injuries as a Community Health Problem
- Safety and Health in the Workplace
- Potential Public Health Debate Issues
- Salmon in the Wild versus Fram Raised Fish.
- Smoking in Public Health Places
- Mercury emissions from Coal Plants (changing these levels)
- SARS - Pros and Cons of screening foreign visitors
- Flu - Immunizations
- Should we have a National Health Care System: Pros and Cons
- AIDS - Foreign aid to people for treatment and prevention
- Healthcare Disparities: Differences in quality of health care
- Legalization of Medical-grade Marijuana: Pros and Cons
- Food Safety: Mad Cow Disease
- Obesity and Fast Foods
- Costs of Pharmaceuticals Prescription Drugs
- Mental Health
- Asthma
- West Nile Virus
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