| source University of Washington (X) |
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department Health Services (X) |
Provides an overview of the key components of health and wellness. Presents a balance between individual responsibility and social determinants of public health, emphasizing a holistic preventative model. Incorporates self-assessment and considers the impact of personal, family, social, cultural, and environmental factors on health.
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Introduction to medical anthropology. Explores the relationship among culture, society, and medicine. Examples from Western medicine as well as from other medical systems, incorporating both interpretive and critical approaches. Offered: jointly with ANTH 475.
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Problems and issues in epidemiology, health services delivery and administration, environmental health, pathobiology, biostatistics, and related fields.
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Introduction to public health taking an in depth look at local public health practice. Focuses on practical solutions for real life problems in local public health settings. Uses modified problem-based learning (PBL) format. Framework is 10 Essential Public Health Services. Student groups prepare for and explore new issues.
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Explores what makes a population health or unhealthy. Examines why the USA is less healthy than all the other rich countries, despite being one of the healthiest fifty years ago.
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Collect and analyze literature related to historical and current public health issues, problems and programs; analyze information and develop written summaries to demonstrate increased knowledge and competencies as applied to public health. Prerequisite: HSERV 480.
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Individual library or field study project selected in consultation with a faculty adviser.
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Basic overview of state and local public health practice with leaders in the field and case studies focusing on rural and urban public health challenges. Offers preparation for practice in public health agencies. Prerequisite: HSERV 511 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with EPI 501.
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Covers collection and use of public health surveillance data in formulating policy and managing programs through lectures and real-world interactive exercises. Discusses surveillance for birth defects, environmental exposures, and hospital-acquired infections, and use of tools such as small area analysis and geographic information systems. Offered: jointly with EPI 503.
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Overview of the theory and practice of designing, producing, and evaluating public health communication campaigns, including the use of mass media. Develops greater capacity for critical judgment about the use of communication strategies for achieving public health goals.
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Discuss and evaluate health communications theories and applications at the individual level (i.e., persuasion), interpersonal level (i.e. doctor/patient communication), and societal level (i.e., mass media). Investigate intercultural communication cutting across all levels of health communication. Examines the steps involved in the design of a health communication intervention.
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Analysis of principles of community health as applied to the delivery of clinical services in order to improve public health, reduce disparities, provide leadership in delivery of care, and synthesize one's clinical role with public health. Examines environmental, social, cultural, and behavioral determinants of health. Includes family, aggregates, and populations.. Offered: jointly with NURS 560.
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Introduction to the emerging field of pubic health informatics. Covers general public health topics as well as key public health informatics issues and applications. Evaluates a public health information system. Prerequisite: either MEBI 530 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with MEBI 533; Sp.
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Provides an overview of three core areas in the social and behavioral sciences of public health practice and research: social determinants of individual and population health, health promotion and disease prevention, and cultural competency and community collaboration.. Prerequisite: HSERV 511 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
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History, organization, and effectiveness of United States health care and public health systems. Determinants of health, need, and utilization. Public and private financing. Supply and provision of personal and public health services. Managed care. Government and private sector roles. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.
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Students review and examine selected topics from literature. Includes: need and access to care; theory and effects of health insurance; private and public insurance programs; managed care; costs/expenditures; availability and organization of health resources; and quality assessment and improvement. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD students. Prerequisite: HSERV 511.
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Explores the elements and actions of a population health approach, including conceptualizing the determinants of health, synthesizing knowledge about major social determinants, and applying knowledge to improve population health and reduce health disparities. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD students. Prerequisite: HSERV 511, and permission of instructor; recommended: HSERV 512. Offered: jointly with EPI 547; Sp.
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Extends students' understanding of the nature of health policy and health policy development in the context of a market-based economy. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD students. Prerequisite: HSERV 511, and permission of instructor; recommended: HSERV 512/513.
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Provides overview of health care system, exposes students to current issues and developments affecting organization and delivery of health services, helps students develop ability to frame and analyze questions and issues related to health services. Prerequisite: registration in Extended M.P.H. Degree program.
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Builds on material covered in 516 and provides students with tools used to evaluate alternative health delivery systems; exposes students to various international health delivery systems; encourages students to decide how to organize such a system. Prerequisite: HSERV 516, registration in Extended M.P.H. Degree program.
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Presents introduction to ethical issues in public health policy and practice. Additional one credit option focuses on health administration/managed care. Coursework designed to train students in basic skills of ethical analysis and increase competency in recognizing, researching, and analyzing issues arising in public health and health services delivery.
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Skills/knowledge necessary to conduct orderly investigation of specific problems in preparation for M.P.H. thesis or project. Includes problem identification, posing research questions, literature review, consideration of theoretical/practical context, choosing study design, data collection, protection of human subjects, and recognizing potential errors. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: registration in Extended M.P.H. Degree program.
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Provides theoretical training in qualitative research and in depth training in qualitative data management, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Focuses on how to frame qualitative research questions, design appropriate research strategies, and integrate qualitative and quantitative methods in research designs in public health.
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Politics, theory, methods of evaluation, from simple health programs to evaluation of large-scale interventions. Emphasizes experimental and quasi-experimental designs to estimate program impacts, as well as evaluation of program implementation. Case studies drawn from health field illustrate various types of evaluations. Prerequisite: background in introductory statistics
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Examines how to apply research methods and addresses recurring issues in health services research. Covers statistical theory that motivates the methods and empirical work that demonstrates a method's use. Enrollment priority for Health Services PhD. students. Prerequisite: either HSERV 511, BIOST 511/512/513, BIOST 517/518, or EPI 511/512, and permission of instructor.
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