Intro to Public/Global Health

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to introduce public health and policy concerns regarding major health issues facing the global community. Through this course, students will explore the basic foundation of public health including the infrastructure, applied sciences, key concepts and terms, the role public health plays in evaluating, and enacting policies and research to help address local, regional, country, and global public health concerns. Special emphasis will be placed on how traditional and complementary medicine practitioners can better play a role in ensuring the maximum benefits to the public health initiatives. Students will study peer reviewed literature to explore the science and scientific methods being utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of TCAM techniques on specific categories of healthcare conditions.