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This course provides an introduction to the healthcare system, orienting the student to its overall structure, functions, and processes. It provides a social, political, and economic context for understanding contemporary healthcare systems, discusses the organization and financing of healthcare, and furnishes vocabulary and a frame of reference for students to understand the dilemmas in the current healthcare environment. Addressing the complex inter-relationships of system elements, the course uses an organizing theme of well functioning biological and other systems in comparison to systems in healthcare, and provides a basic framework for understanding the roles of community health, economics, ethics, politics, health insurance models, and the business community in shaping public policy. Fall and Spring.
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The focus in this course is the implementation of health promotion strategies for disease prevention, health promotion/enhancement, and health maintenance to support optimal wellness for individuals within their environment. Content includes health throughout the life cycle, risk appraisal, and health promotion resources. Common health alterations will be discussed in relation to common altered self-care patterns. Spring Semester, Sophomore Year.
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This course provides practical application to the course content presented in the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Lecture. Specifically, the focus of this lab course is to teach students administrative strategies and tactics within organizations involved in health promotion and disease prevention. Students will participate in case studies and field trips to provide experiential learning related to key health promotion and disease prevention topics to include- aging and chronic illness, tobacco use; cardiovascular disease prevention. The case studies and class activities address operational, administrative, and tactical issues while the field trips expose the students to leading organizations in the field of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
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This course focuses on the normal biophysical and psychosocial development of individuals from conception through old age. Emphasis is on the developing individual within the context of his environment. (Sophomore standing or with permission of instructor.)
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This is an introduction to the study of nutrients, their functions, metabolism, food sources, and optimal choices for the promotion and maintenance of health. Nutritional needs throughout the life cycle are addressed including special considerations during pregnancy, lactation, athletics, weight control, etc., with the inclusion of recent research in the field. Nutrition as an interdisciplinary approach to health care and disease prevention is discussed as it applies to the individual, in community health, education, and government sponsored food programs. Students use computer-based diet analysis to periodically evaluate personal dietary intakes. Prerequisite: CHEM-007 or equivalent.
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This course explores basic nutrition concepts designed for the student with limited exposure to the chemical and biological sciences. Each nutrient is studied including its functions, metabolism, food sources, and optimal choices for the promotion and maintenance of health throughout the human life cycle. Emphasis is given to special needs during pregnancy, lactation, athletics and weight control. Food safety, including additives, biotechnology, labeling, and other public health measures designed to protect the public are explored. Students use computer-based diet analyses to periodically evaluate personal dietary intakes. Not open to School of Nursing and Health Studies students.
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This course will provide the students with a basic understanding of concepts, principles, and processes in the physiology of disease. Topics include biology of human cells and selected organ systems, as well as human genetics. Spring.
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A series of lectures and laboratory experiences devoted to the anatomy of the human are presented. Basic biological, principles are introduced and the integrative systems of the body are also studied. Three lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory. Parallel Courses: CHEM-001 or HEST-110. Fall.
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A series of lectures and laboratory experiences devoted to the physiology of the human are presented. The circulatory respiratory, digestive, excretory, and reproductive systems are studied in detail. Laboratory experiences include blood pressure determination, cardiovascular physiology as demonstrated on the dog, and urinalysis. Three lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory. Prerequisite: HEST-101, CHEM-001 or HEST-110. Parallel course: CHEM-002 or HEST-111. Spring.
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This course provides foundational knowledge which a health care professional needs in order to understand illness, its manifestations in a person and the technologies for diagnosis and treatment. The focus of this course is on the basic pathogenesis, physiology, diagnosis and therapeutic methodologies (including pharmacology) of selected health deviations. The disorders discussed are representative of those commonly occurring in the population. Prerequisites for -103: CHEM-001 and -002, or HEST-110 and -111 HEST-101 and -102. Prerequisite for -104: HEST-103. Parallel courses for HEST-103 and -104 for nursing majors: NURS-012 and -014.
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This course provides foundational knowledge which a health care professional needs in order to understand illness, its manifestations in a person and the technologies for diagnosis and treatment. The focus of this course is on the basic pathogenesis, physiology, diagnosis and therapeutic methodologies (including pharmacology) of selected health deviations. The disorders discussed are representative of those commonly occurring in the population. Prerequisites: HEST-103. Parallel course for nursing majors: NURS-014.
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A series of lectures and laboratory experiences devoted to the pathogenic bacteria and viruses of humans. The mechanism of pathogenicity, the clinical picture of the disease, prophylaxis, and therapeutic are discussed. The laboratory experiences include identification of pathogens in sputum, spinal fluid, blood, urine, and stool cultures. Aseptic technique is stressed in the laboratory. Three lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory. Prerequisites: CHEM-001 and -002 or HEST-110 and -111, HEST-101 and -102 or permission of the instructors. Fall.
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This is an introduction to the study of nutrients, their functions, metabolism, food sources, and optimal choices for the promotion and maintenance of health. Nutritional needs throughout the life cycle are addressed including special considerations during pregnancy, lactation, athletics, weight control, etc., with the inclusion of recent research in the field. Nutrition as an interdisciplinary approach to health care and disease prevention is discussed as it applies to the individual, in community health, education, and government sponsored food programs. Students use computer-based diet analysis to periodically evaluate personal dietary intakes.
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This course will present an overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its impact on the individual, society and the world. The student will have the opportunity to explore the major biological, ethical and societal issues related to this disease.
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The course emphasizes the scientific method as a mode of inquiry along with the application of principles of evidence-based practice. Critiques of research studies are done to sharpen evaluation skills. Prerequisite: MATH-005 or 006. Fall and Spring, Junior Year.
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This course explores the social, economic, political, technological, and legal forces that influence the delivery of health care in the United States. The organization, financing and delivery of health care are examined, as are the legislative and policy processes related to health care. Professional and ethical issues arising from system inequities are explored, and implications for national health status are discussed. Fall and Spring, Junior Year.
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This course uses an epidemiological approach to examine population health and to explore the social, behavioral and environmental complexities that affect the health of populations. The course focuses on populations at risk for poor health outcomes; the public health system is examined, and public health and medical interventions to improve health behavior and status are critiqued. In addition, the course orients the students to systems thinking and a systems approach. The course also integrates a service learning component to facilitate the application of theory to the health of populations and communities.
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This introductory course provides a broad overview of key components of the health care delivery system. It explores the organization and values of the medical and the public health systems, the methods of financing and reimbursing care, the regulatory environment, the roles of government, business and the marketplace, and contemporary issues in the healthcare workforce. Special attention is given to the structures, incentives and outcomes of managed care. Prerequisite: HEST-010 or permission of the instructor required.
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This course analyzes the social, political, technical and economic environment of the health care delivery system. It focuses on analyzing key cost, quality and access issues in the contemporary environment. Various segments of the industry, such as technology and pharmaceuticals are also explored for their contribution to the cost, quality and population health. Links between the health care system at the macro level and care delivery organizations are also examined. Prerequisites: HEST-185; and HEST-010 or permission of the instructor required.
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Bad things happenâeven to âgoodâ people. Suffering is a universal experience which can âmakeâ or âbreakâ humans. Traditionally humankind has turned to various religious systems to find meaning in the mystery of suffering. In this course, faculty, guest lecturers, and students examine human suffering as viewed by the worldâs major religious traditions (Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism) and contemporary secular society. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to these traditional sources and to encourage them to give contemporary expression to the wisdom they contain. Emphasis is placed on the narratives of individuals who are suffering and the depiction of suffering in the arts (particularly cinema) and literature and on the positive benefits which can be obtained from this complex experience.
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This course is designed to explore health issues of particular concern to women across the life span. The purpose is to empower women through health education to function more effectively within the contemporary health care system. Health concerns of women from adolescence through senescence will be studied. Topics include epidemiology of disease, among women, common health problems, reproductive health, issues of aging, ethical/legal issues, and preventive health responsibility.
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The role of genetics in health and disease has gained great attention since recent scientific evidence indicates that it plays a significant part in determining outcomes of both physiology and behavior. In this course, the student will study both classical and molecular genetics as they apply to health and disease states. Topics to be included are: Mendelian and non-Mendelian patterns of inheritance, meiosis, mitosis and DNA replication and protein synthesis, gene and chromosome mutations, the role of the environment in phenotypic expression, recombinant DNA technology, gene therapy. An emphasis will be placed on the legal and ethical implications of genetic counseling and decision-making. The involvement of genetics in developmental and chronic diseases, such as Fragile-X, Trisomy, breast and colon cancer, heart disease and neurofibromatosis, will be explored throughout the semester. Prerequisites: HEST-101 and -102; CHEM-007, -008 or CHEM-001 and 002. Spring, Sophomore or Junior or Junior Year Health Studies Science Track.
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This survey course explores foundational public health theory and concepts, and applies them to the health of groups and communities. Content in epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health, disease prevention and health promotion will be emphasized as it relates to the health of populations. Contemporary social, economic, and ethical issues and their impact on health will be examined. Emphasis will be placed on vulnerability of populations and its impact on health and care delivery. This course will integrate a service learning component to enhance the application of theory to the health of communities. Open to non-Health Studies Students with permission of instructor.
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This seminar is a critical analysis of the rise of health as a science. The primary objective is to develop proficiency in oral, written and electronic forms of scientific communication. Primary sources in a broad range of scientific topics will be presented to expose students to health science communication. Each student will create an annotated bibliography and oral presentation of a health science topic of their choosing related to communication in the health sciences. HEST-196 should be taken during the same semester as HEST-175, Research in Health Care.
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