FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the discipline of public health. It provides the historical profile of the development of public health, the ethical principles, as well as allows you to identify the agencies or organizations that intervene in public health locally and internationally. This course provides theoretical -practical elements in the main areas of health that are: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, social and behavioral sciences, and administration of health services. It allows the student to reflect on the aspects that threaten public health and establish strategies aimed at health promotion and disease prevention. Various teaching and assessment strategies are used to stimulate the student's critical-creative thinking in public health.