Intro to Public Health

Catalog description

This course examines historical and contemporary public health issues from the standpoint of the various public health subdisciplines (community health, epidemiology, environmental public health, public health policy). This evidence-based course explores topics such as communicable and noncommunicable diseases; environmental health and safety; health data and communications; food- and drug-based health issues; health institutions; health law and policy; the healthcare workforce. As a survey course, this broad overview introduces intended majors to the public health discipline and provides non-majors with introductory-level public health knowledge required for other public health courses.