Introduction to Public Health Practice.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online). 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to students in the Master of Public Health program or by permission of the instructor. Describes the public health system in the United States. Explores the disease prevention and philosophy and foundations of public health management, economics, law, ethics and education. Examines the use of epidemiology and statistics to determine personal, environmental, and occupational health problems.