Population Health and Epidemiology in Nursing Practice

Catalog description

This course introduces the concepts of population-focused professional nursing. Utilizing levels of prevention as a framework, theories, principles and concepts of community, population and global health are explored. Through the lens of health promotion and disease prevention, predictive factors that influence health of individuals, aggregates and populations are explored. Epidemiological principles, processes and methods are emphasized to examine the impact of environmental issues and risk factors to local and global population health.