PEDS 650

Catalog description

Through guided dialogue and evidence-based applications, students learn public health principles, which include the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the efforts and choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals. Students apply health promotion and prevention concepts to infants, children, and adolescents. Students learn models that facilitate professional communication of public health concepts to patients, their caregivers, and other health care providers. Students build a learning portfolio that supports health advocacy that contains tools that can be applied in clinical pediatric practice and integrate determinants of health within a social-ecological model and biopsychosocial framework.