Public Health in America

Catalog description

This graduate-level course introduces students to the historical development, structure, operation, and current and future directions of the major components of the public health delivery system. It reviews the historical evolution of the US public health system’s features and examines the ways in which national public health services are organized and delivered, the influences that affect public health public policy decisions, factors that determine priorities for the allocation of resources, and the relationship of costs to measurable benefits. The course enables students to assess the role of organized efforts to influence public health policy formulation, and the contributions of medical technology, research findings, and societal values on our evolving public health delivery system. This course satisfies a proctored assessment requirement for this program and is not eligible for transfer credit.