Graduate Course Descriptions

Provides an overview of current knowledge about biological mechanisms of major diseases causing death and disability in the US and globally; understanding and interpreting the reciprocal relationships of genetic, environmental, and behavioral determinants of health and disease in an ecologic context; analyzing, discussing, and communicating biologic principles of disease from a public health perspective. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

Application of biostatistical principles to critical analysis of retrospective studies, prospective studies, and controlled clinical trials, as well as studies in the health services literature. Selection, basic calculations, and interpretation of statistical methods for detection of significant associations and differences. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

General principles, methods, and applications of epidemiology. Outbreak investigations, measures of disease frequency, standardization of disease rates, study design, measures of association, hypothesis testing, bias, effect modification, causal inference, disease screening, and surveillance. Case studies apply these concepts to a variety of infectious, acute, and chronic health conditions affecting the population. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Common environmental and occupational hazards, including chemical, biological and physical agents, and their effects on human health. Principles of exposure assessment, hazard evaluation, and prevention and control. Community and ethical perspectives. Prerequisites: None

Summer , Fall, Spring

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Introductory multidisciplinary course focusing on the interplay of all aspects of global public health on health policy problems. Students will learn how health policy is made, how health care and public health services are delivered, and how to define and analyze key health policy problems drawing on the perspectives and skills of the public health disciplines. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

This course emphasizes selected social and behavioral science theories, models, and concepts that can be applied to the analysis of problems encountered in health promotion practice and/or generation of strategies to address those problems, inform or underlie health education/promotion interventions. Prerequisites: None

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course will present detailed information about theories and constructs of behavior and behavior change among progressively larger and more complex groups from individuals to populations. The goal of the course is to encourage interactive and independent learning in areas of behavioral change, especially in areas pertaining to health that are of both personal and professional interest to course participants. Summer, Spring Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

An advanced multidisciplinary course examining global public health and health delivery issues through the use of a case study approach. Prerequisites: PubH 201.202.203.204.205.206 or 207

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

In-depth examination of a particular facet of public health. Topics and prerequisites vary. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

Permission of instructor and advisor required. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

Individually tailored. Culminating Experience for the MPH program. Advisor approval required prior to registration. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

A supervised, work experience to develop skills in basic public health concepts and demonstrate the application of these concepts through a field experience. The practicum must be in either a public health or health services agency or organization. The experience should include exposure to roles and responsibilities of public health and health services professionals. The student should be expected to learn and apply competencies and skills as related to degree concentration area. Supervision is required. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

214.10 Biostatistics
214..11 COPC
214.12 EOH
214.13 EPI
214.14 GH
214.15 HIS
214.16 HPol
214.17 Hpro
214.18 MCH
214.19 PHC&M
214.20 PHM
214.21 MS in PHM&EID

This course provides the opportunity for MPH and MS Public Health Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases students to apply the knowledge and skills acquired through their programs of study. A planned, supervised and evaluated practice experience that is relevant to the student's program is an essential component of a public health professional degree program. These opportunities can take place in a variety of agencies or organizations. Each program customizes Practicum requirements to meet students’ needs. (Credit/No Credit) [For 45-credit MPH students who started Summer 06 or after.] Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

215.10 Biostatistics
215..11 COPC
215.12 EOH
215.13 EPI
215.14 GH
215.15 HIS
215.16 HPol
215.17 Hpro
215.18 MCH
215.19 PHC&M
[PHM students take HSML 218]

A culminating experience is one that requires a student to synthesize and integrate knowledge acquired in coursework and other learning experiences and to apply theory and principles in a situation that approximates some aspect of professional practice. It is through this course that faculty evaluates the extent to which the student has mastered the body of knowledge and can demonstrate proficiency in the required competencies. Each program customizes Culminating Experience requirements to meet students’ needs. [For 45-credit MPH students who started Summer 06 or after.] Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Epidemiologic methods for the study of environmental and occupational health problems. Epidemiologic exposure assessment methods and methods relevant to cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, and cluster investigation studies. Sources of and evaluation of biases and confounding, as well as survey and questionnaire design. Prerequisites: PubH 202.203

Spring

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Regulatory and compensation policy and systems. Development of skills for critical analysis and advocacy. Prerequisites: PubH 221

Spring

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Introduction to principles of toxicology with emphasis on concepts most relevant in environmental and occupational applications, risk assessment, and risk communication. Prerequisites:Organic Chemistry

Fall

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Synthetic, case study approach to environmental and occupational health problems. Integrating health and exposure information. Litigation issues, public health advisories, risk communication, and advanced toxicology. Prerequisites: PubH 204.223.221

Summer

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Children are uniquely vulnerable to environmental hazards. This course describes the physical, biological, and behavioral basis for this and the effects of specific hazards and specific environments on children. Prerequisites: PubH 204

Spring, Alternate years

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Introductory course in the anticipation, recognition, assessment, and control of hazards in the workplace and the ambient environment. It emphasizes an understanding of the characteristic features of specific hazards, which may be chemical, biological, or physical/ergonomic. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

The objective of this course is to provide students of public health with a basic understanding of microbes and the environment with a particular emphasis on bioterrorism. Students will be able to: describe microbiological agents in the environment; describe the public health triad; outline public health measures addressing the threats of these environmental microbes; and, evaluate policy and regulations available to address these threats. Prerequisites: PubH 204

Spring

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

This course will examine environmental and occupational health issues at various stages in the development process. Emphasis will be placed on principles of development economics and associated environmental health issues. Prerequisites: PubH 204

Fall, Alternate years

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Skills for EOH research and information retrieval. Identify peer-reviewed, agency, and other sources of research on workplace, air, water, and soil hazards. Contrast research findings in the workplace and general environment. Examine contemporary research sources in industrial hygiene, risk communication, toxicology, epidemiology, health surveillance and monitoring, and regulation. Prerequisites:Concurrently enroll in PubH 204

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

The scope and definition of health informatics; applications in public health practice, health organization management, and health services research. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations and the impact on the academic, public health and health service industries. Emphases are placed on bridging the gaps between information systems and public health business process. Public health surveillance systems, geographic information systems and cancer maps. Will not be offered in 2007-2008.

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Quantitative and qualitative approaches to decision making, including risk- benefit analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effective analysis. Applications to technology assessment; development of clinical guidelines. Note: MPH and MS Health Policy and Doctoral Students concurrently take PubH 210 Independent Study for 1 credit. Prerequisites: PubH 202.203

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Selection, basic calculations, and interpretation of statistical methods applicable to public health, including an introduction to epidemiological analysis, analysis of variance, correlation, and regression. Prerequisites: None

Summer

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiology of specific cancers, with an emphasis on molecular and genetic epidemiology. Current research in the field. Prerequisites: PubH 202.203

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

The role and conduct of laboratory and field investigations in the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Prerequisites: PubH 203

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiologic knowledge and prevention strategies for intentional and unintentional injuries, including those occurring in transportation, occupational, home, and recreational environments. Research methods, sources of data, and application to injury prevention. Prerequisites: PubH 203

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiologic concepts and methods applied to specific research questions, especially new types of public health problems. Recognition and development of the most appropriate study design for a specific health issue. Ecologic, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort studies and clinical trials. Sampling, measurement, questionnaire design, causality and causal criteria. Development of a research proposal. Prerequisites: PubH 203

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Methodological challenges in studying older populations. Epidemiologic endpoints in aging populations. Basic concepts and theories explored in aging research. Prerequisites: PubH 203

Fall

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

This course familiarizes the student with one of the most widely used database management systems and statistical analysis software packages, the SAS System, operating in a Windows environment. Throughout the course, several database management system techniques and data analytical strategies for the appropriate analysis of datasets obtained from a variety of studies will be presented. Statistical techniques covered include linear regression, analysis of variance, logistic regression, and survival analysis. Prerequisites: PubH 202

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Methodological issues central to HIV/AIDS research. Biases peculiar to HIV/AIDS epidemiologic studies (both observational and experimental designs). The natural history of HIV, diagnosis, surveillance, vulnerable subpopulations, behavioral facets, and evaluation of epidemiologic studies with an emphasis on methodological considerations. Prerequisites: PubH 203, Recommended 202

Fall

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Information Technology (IT) systems are prevalent in most professional organizations, and in many they are mission critical components of the business model. This is especially true in health care given the sensitive nature of the information present within its systems. It is common for expertise in IT to be limited (in terms of availability) to outsourced support or internal MIS departments, and if resources allow in the form of decision support and expert systems technology. However, with the contemporary reality that there are many more ways of delivering information than there are ways to utilize it effectively, there is a need for all users of IT to have a fundamental understanding of how those systems function and what role they serve within the organization. The knowledge is especially critical for those in decision making roles who will affect both which and how IT solutions are implemented. This course serves as an overview of systems in terms of application and development, with a focus on the information they create and the people that use these systems in their daily work. The approach is threefold, emphasizing a total systems approach to systems design, programming, and infrastructure. Prerequisites: None

Spring,Odd years

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Advanced quantitative epidemiologic methods, with a focus on basic data analytic techniques, identifying and evaluating bias and adjusting for confounding. Dose-response, trend analysis, and multiple linear and logistic regression models. Prerequisites: PubH 202.203.247

Summer, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

This course will provide an overview and in depth consideration of some of the major issues in treatment of HIV disease, including the assessment of efficacy and effectiveness, drug resistance, monitoring of drug toxicity, special populations, the interrelationship between treatment and prevention, and quality of care. The course has been designed with an interdisciplinary audience in mind. In discussions and assignments, students will be able to emphasize their own area of interest and/or expertise (e.g. epidemiology, policy, etc)

Fall

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

The database is the foundation of the enterprise's business systems. It not only provides a framework to host the business information systematically but also empower the business manager to manage the business-intelligent information and reach critical business decision. This course will discuss and study the database, the technology, and the planning, implementation and management of the database. Upon completing this course, student will have a good knowledge of database technology and the implementation of database in the Health Care Information Systems. Prerequisites: None

Fall, Even years

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

This seminar will focus on current epidemiologic challenges in HIV/AIDS; guest speakers describing their public health organizations’ responses to these issues; and interactive dialogues to explore the strengths and limitations of various organizational approaches to the epidemic. Prerequisite: PubH 250 (Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS), PubH 388 (Issues in HIV/AIDS Prevention), or permission of Instructor.

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

The transition of software systems from monolithic standalone segments isolated from the larger organization to smaller, more agile modules tightly integrated into a greater Information Systems Architecture (ISA) has created an opportunity for business process re-engineering across operational strata. This change in philosophy has no greater impact than in those organizations that have traditionally been heavily reliant on large volumes of data for their daily activities. Computing power at the desktop has reached the level where limitations on systems are no longer based necessarily on hardware restrictions but on the time available and the view of the managers in charge of IT development. Additionally, the evolution of the Intranet and Extranet technology allows complex systems near infinite scalability through a web browsing architecture. Understanding the challenges of this rapidly changing field is invaluable. This course functions as an introduction to applied development in Information Technology (IT) and online systems. Prerequisites: PubH 251.254 or Instructor's consent

Fall, Odd years

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Due to rapid development of advanced information technology, more and more data, consequently information, are readily available and easily be retained. We have noticed that healthcare organizations are also stepping up their pace in acquiring new hardware and software to assist in their core business operations. These acquisitions are complicated and expensive to say the least. Are there industrial success/failure lessons can be learned so far? Are those lessons applicable to the public sectors? We will introduce students with the basic strategic management theory. Explore the linkage among information resources management plan, IT strategy, and organizational strategy, and organizational business plan. We will then introduce several of public surveillance systems from CDC, NCHS, and AHRQ. Understand their database setup, information infrastructure, and the values each system have provided. During the class, HIPAA requirements, systems that are used in health care provider's organizations such as Electronic Medical Record Systems, Decision Support Systems, and Executive Information Systems will be introduced. Students will learn how to prioritize IT projects through risk assessment process. Students are asked to hand in a term paper at the end of the course. Prerequisites: None

Spring, Even years

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Principles and practice of biostatistical consulting in public health and medical research environments. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

This course focuses on foundations of public health surveillance systems for communicable as well as chronic diseases. Outbreak investigation methods will be included, as well as surveillance data sources, data management, data analysis, ethical issues, surveillance system evaluation, and use of information for prevention. Surveillance systems for reportable diseases, nosocomial infections, bioterrorism events, cancer, environmental disease, vaccine-related adverse events, bovine spongiform encephalophy, and military personnel will be discussed. Prerequisites PubH 202.203, Spring Prerequisites: PubH 202.203

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

An intensive course in advanced data analysis using the SAS System to expand on the analytic techniques gained in PubH 202 and PubH 249 and to provide students with the applied statistical skills required to analyze various types of public health datasets. Prerequisites: PubH 202.249

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Geographic information systems (GIS) for mapping and display of health data. The course makes use of ArcGIS 8.3. The use of spatial statistics for the detection of clusters and patterns in the spread of diseases. Working with geodatabases, shape files, layers, query information from attribute tables, geocode addresses and customizing GIS applications. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Introduction to Clinical Information systems is a survey course of the elements of clinical informatics. Clinical Informatics overlaps with medical informatics and health informatics, deals with the use of computers and information technology in the direct care of patients. The course will emphasize public health and patient safety issues as applicable. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

This research course will provide the student with a culminating experience. Through an individual research project, students will apply their knowledge in the principles of infectious disease and demonstrate skills in epidemiology and biostatistics. The project will require a written proposal, a written final report, and an oral presentation. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Design of medical investigations, including the randomized clinical trial, observational cohort study, and the retrospective case-control study. Specific methods regarding sample size, power and precision and statistical procedures for randomization and sampling. Ethics of clinical trials and the intention-to-treat principle. Prerequisites: PubH 202

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Biostatistical methods for asymptotically efficient tests and estimates of relative risks and odds ratios from prospective and retrospective matched and unmatched studies. Fixed and random effects models. Logistic regression, conditional logistic regression. Poisson regression. Maximum likelihood and efficient scores. Prerequisites:Stat 202 or Instructor's permission

Fall

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Core elements of health policy analysis: problem definition, background, the political, economic, and social landscape; development of policy options and recommendations. Written, graphic, and oral presentation skills associated with policy analysis. Prerequisites: PubH 205

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Provides instruction in critical elements of health policy applications: problem definition; political, social, and economic assessment of a problem; program evaluation and data analysis; development of policy options; and the written and oral presentation of findings and recommendations. Hands-on application of basic quantitative tools in health policy. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

This course addresses the relationship of law and the legal system in the United States to the individual health care delivery system. It examines how various sources of law embody health policy and affect the organization, delivery, and financing of health care, as well as the regulation of health care quality and patient rights. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Examines how law can both promote and impede the public's health. Introduces students to the legal concepts that underlie the public health system and that inform public health policymaking in the United States. Topics to be covered include the role of law in public health care and policy (e.g., governmental powers vs. civil liberties, regulation of public health, tobacco regulation), managed care and public health, the role of public health officials in shaping law and policy, and public health law reform. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Covers economic principles as they apply to health services financing and public health policy: provider payment policy and cost containment, supply of health providers and services, individual demand for health care services, and cost-benefit analyses and economic incentives to promote public health goals. Prerequisites:Basic Economics

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

In-depth exploration of maternal and child health policy in the U.S., with a particular emphasis on the role of personal and public health services for women, children, youth and their families in the context of health and human services system change. The course will also build knowledge in the process of public policy development at the national, state and local level in the area of maternal and child health and will build on the methods of policy analysis, including problem identification, the development of policy overview and synthesis documents, and the preparation of policy options papers Prerequisites: PubH 281 or PubH 373

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Examines the intersection of health care and civil rights law in the United States: the history and legacy of health care discrimination in the U.S.; the various forms of health care discrimination; legislative and regulatory interventions to combat discrimination and create/enforce/restore health care civil rights; and the unique place that abortion rights holds in U.S. law and society. Prerequisites: PubH 283

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Focuses on how the Congressional budget process shapes the funding and design of federal health care programs, ranging from entitlement programs like Medicare to appropriated programs like community health centers. Discussions will cover budget resolutions, appropriations bills, and budget reconciliation legislation, as well as Congressional procedures and committees through which they are considered. Prerequisites: PubH 205

Summer

Offered by: Health Policy

Addresses the federal laws and regulations that affect U.S. health care industry participants, particularly those relating to the prevention of fraud and abuse, and the role of corporate compliance programs. Prerequisites: PubH 283 or HSLM 215

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Addresses those issues in law, ethics, and policy that focus on the scope and limits of individual autonomy within the health system. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Fall

Offered by: Health Policy

Examines the managed care industry, including health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and the utilization management (UM) in fee-for-service plans. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Fall

Offered by: Health Policy

Examines selected topics in the design and operation of Medicare and Medicaid, the public insurance problems in the United States. Introduces students to legal issues from the perspectives of program beneficiaries, health care providers, and program administrators. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Introduces students to the concept of health disparities and the implications of disparities for health care practice and policy. Students will learn how disparities are defined and measured, as well as emerging approaches in practice and policy to reducing disparities. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Fall

Offered by: Health Policy

Examines legal and regulatory frameworks related to the demand for and supply and quality of pharmaceutical products. It will highlight policies specific to drug development, pricing, reimbursement, drug utilization, dissemination of information, and post-marketing surveillance. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Fall

Offered by: Health Policy

Explores politics and policy of the provision of primary health care in America. The class covers the rise of the field of primary care and how it is supported and financed, as well as the role of insurers and government in regulation and oversight in the areas of access, cost, and quality. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Provides a theoretical and practical understanding of legislative advocacy in the area of Federal health policy. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the theory behind legislative advocacy and lobbying, the various types of advocates, the tools that they use, and examples of successful and unsuccessful lobbying. The course regularly uses guest lecturers to allow students to question and interact with those who are professionally involved in the legislative advocacy process. Prerequisites: PubH 281

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Addresses the use of scientific evidence in decision-making for regulatory and public health policy purposes, and looks at how the legal system approaches environmental and toxic exposure claims. The class focuses on the 1993 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and its importance for both the legal and public health communities. Prerequisites: PubH 283

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

The course is the culminating experience for students in the MPH and MS Health Policy degree programs, and must be taken during the student's final semester of his or her master's degree work. The course includes seminar discussions and analysis of major health policy topics. Prerequisites: PubH 281.282

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Introduces students to the U.S. health care system with a focus on major components of the system, the interaction of the elements of the system, and the history of the development of today's system. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Fall

Offered by: Health Policy

Multidimensional aspects of international health and medical, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of disease. Major causes of mortality and morbidity on a regional basis. Fundamentals of development, issues in family health, ethics, and social change and approaches to the delivery of health care services. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Global Health

Evaluation of various organizational patterns, functions, and trends in international health services delivery systems. Sources of differences and the significance of systems to the health status of a nation. Fall, Spring Prerequisites: None

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Fundamentals of macro- and microeconomics and financial analysis in international health including degree of centralization, public-private sector roles, and roles of international donor agencies. Prerequisites: PubH 321

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Principles and applications of health communication including methods for effectively delivering health communication messages through presentations and media. Assessment of individual communication competencies. Prerequisite: 321. Will not be offered in 2007-2008.

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

International health policy and its relationship to social and economic development. Foundations of systematic policy analysis and the political processes and implementation of international health and development policy. Topics may include appropriate health technology, maternal and child health, aging, and AIDS. Prerequisites: PubH 321

Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Management concepts and techniques related to the implementation of health and development programs and projects. Theories of management: planning, monitoring, and budgeting; the role of the manager; management of human and other resources, communication and leadership; motivation, quality control, teamwork, organizational culture and ethics. Case studies. Prerequisites: PubH 325

Fall

Offered by: Global Health

Maternal and child mortality and morbidity, family formation and reproductive health. Approaches to safe motherhood and child survival strategies in international settings, including interventions for disadvantaged groups. Prerequisites: PubH 321

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Basic concepts and principles of program development and evaluation including data collection methods, decision making, and problem-solving techniques. Application of program development and evaluation techniques to specific interventions. Prerequisites: PubH 203.321

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Use of communication theory and methods in health promotion. Integration of multidisciplinary approaches to public health communication. Prerequisites: PubH 321

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Analysis of qualitative data gathered through a variety of methods including focus groups, rapid appraisals, observation, and in-depth interviews. Utilization of data for program and policy decisions. Prerequisites: PubH 321

Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Analysis of national and global policies and resolutions. Issues of cost, equity, gender implications, and other health impacts. Prerequisites: PubH 203.321.325

Summer

Offered by: Global Health

This course examines the set of social, cultural and economic issues most central to shaping health in each of the world’s main regions. Specific issues are chosen by the faculty based on current global health priorities. Prerequisite: PubH 321.

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Analysis of national and global policies and resolutions. Issues of cost, equity, gender implications, and other health impacts. Prerequisite: PubH 203, 321, 325.

Summer

Offered by: Global Health

This seminar course will provide an overview of global health policy and practice institutional resources in Washington DC. The course is designed to gain an understanding of how global health issues are framed, presented and biased in a multi-institutional setting. This is a collaborative learning exercise where simple web based tools will be used to develop a virtual classroom of the current global health policy and practice dialogue among Washington DC based governmental, multilateral, NGO, private sector and policy institutes. [ MPH Global Health program students only.]

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Provides an in-depth study of the historical development, structure and function of the institutions and initiatives constituting the 'international health system'. The first segment of the course will examine the basic architecture and mandates of the various multilateral, bilateral, NGO, foundation and private sector entities that make up the 'system'. The second segment will analyze how the respective governance mechanisms operate in theory and in practice. The third segment will overview international resource flows in global health and the various mechanisms through which the international institutions and their programs are financed. The fourth segment will critically review the performance of past and present global health initiatives and - drawing on those experiences - review, critique and make recommendations on current efforts seeking to address new and persistent global health opportunities and threats. The fifth and final segment will examine how public support and political will are translated into international and institutional priorities and action.

Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region [see section listings below] Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Spring

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Fall

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Summer

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Fall

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Offered in response to student request

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Offered in response to student request

Offered by: Global Health

Examination and analysis of the patterns and determinants of health in a specific region Prerequisite: PubH 332.

Offered in response to student request

Offered by: Global Health

Writing and public speaking skills ore refined over a lifetime. This course is intended to provide students with a solid foundation on which to build.

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Theory and practice of community-oriented primary care, including an extended small group exercise carrying out a COPC project with a simulated community using Web-based data sets. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course provides students with an opportunity to study current health problems within the context of primary and secondary prevention in a variety of public health settings. Using Healthy People 2010 as the unifying theme, cases in public health problems and issues will be identified to illustrate the linkage among research, policy recommendations, and practical issues of resolution. Prerequisites: PubH 202.203.208

As needed

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Communication theories and methods used in promoting health and preventing disease. Theoretical background in communication and behavior science and practical communication development methods. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Application of qualitative methods in the development of health promotion interventions, evaluations, and research. Collecting and analyzing qualitative date through participant observation, interviewing, group methods, and case studies. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Methods and skills needed to assist individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to change health behavior and improve health. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Advanced work on COPC methods and policy, focusing on issues related to the provision of health care in underserved communities. Prerequisites: PubH 361

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Management and development of community health services. Builds upon principles for management and community-oriented primary care. Prerequisites: PubH 203.361

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Issues of women's health through the life cycle. The process of critically evaluating women's health research and issues. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Issues of physical, mental, and social development and their bearing on the health of adolescents, with special emphasis on prevention. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Public health issues affecting the health and well-being of women, children, and families. A multidisciplinary perspective that integrates the biological, demographic, epidemiological, economic, behavioral, social, cultural and environmental aspects. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Specific intrapersonal, interpersonal, community, and social interventions and programs that impact the well-being of women, children, and adolescents. Students critically analyze current issues and apply theory to practice by using population-focused and evidence-based frameworks. Prerequisites: PubH 370

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Reproductive health from a variety of public health perspectives, from defining reproductive health, past perspectives, needed improvements, and the factors that influence reproductive health. Prerequisites: None

Summer, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Maternal and child health policy in the U.S., particularly policies related to organizations, financing, delivery, and quality oversight of personal health services for mothers and children. Public policy development at the national, state, and local levels. Prerequisites: PubH 370

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

In order to place children and youth with special needs into a public health framework, this course presents an introduction to and an overview of children and youth with special needs due to a developmental disability. Many aspects of developmental disability will be addressed including ‘concept' and definitions of disability, causes, epidemiological considerations, and development of federal legislation. The scope and range of developmental disabilities will be reviewed along with classification schemes. Both national and international distributions will be considered from a sociopolitical viewpoint. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course increases understanding about issues in mental health promotion. The emphasis is on mental health as a public health issue and linkages between individual mental health and the environment. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Summer

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Critical evaluation of the racial and ethnic Issues in health care. Introduces students to differences and disparities in the access, use, and health outcomes of health care in the US. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course provides students with an overview of the methods to plan, implement and evaluate health promotion and education programs targeted towards high risk and special populations. The course will review the socioeconomic, political-economic, cultural and psychosocial factors of populations who are considered to be at high risk for specific health problems and efforts that have been addressed in current health promotion programs. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Fall, Alternate years

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Planning, management and evaluation of programs designed to serve employees' needs, promotion of employee health and reduction of health care costs in the workplace. This course will introduce students to the basic health education principles of work place health promotion and examine the concerns, issues and possible solutions related to workplace health promotion programs. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Spring, Alternate years

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course introduces students to the basic health aspects of the aging process and special health promotion needs for this group. Problems of aging and public health solutions for older Americans will be examined. Students will be able to define the public health concerns for aging Americans, how aging is affected by a multitude of factors, identify health promotion strategies to assist in reaching out to this population and develop methods of collaboration with agencies and organizations to improve the health of the aging population. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Summer

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course covers the nutritional needs of women during the child bearing years, infants, children and adolescents. The course emphasizes the life course approach to nutrition and has a special emphasis on the effects of diet during infancy on obesity and degenerative diseases in later life. Students will examine the biological basis of nutrition, identify risk factors associated with poor nutrition in individuals and populations and evaluate domestic and international programs designed to meet the nutrient needs of this important segment of the population. Prerequisites: None

Summer

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Examination of the development of children from a public health perspective and provide a detailed examination of the indicators of children's health that are needed to assist public health professionals improve children's health. Prerequisites: None

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course will introduce students to the basic public health principles of planning implementing and evaluating health promotion and education programs in a school based setting. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Summer, Alternate years

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course provides students with the knowledge, competencies and skills to plan and implement and evaluation of health promotion-disease prevention programs for a defined population at risk. Prerequisites: None

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Introduces students to computer applications useful in planning and implementing COPC and community health programs. Selected computer applications support COPC methods for defining and characterizing a community's social and health characteristics, mapping an area, investigating a prioritized problem, and developing programs and evaluations, and sharing results. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

In this course students will develop skills to effectively plan, implement, and manage programs that address public health problems for defined populations in a variety of settings. The PRECEDE/PROCEED framework will be used to guide this process. Prerequisites: None

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course examines the history, organization, financing, and politics of school health programs. It will provide an overview of the core components of school health as defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: health services, health education, physical education, nutrition services, counseling or mental health, school environmental health, health promotion, and family/community involvement. Prerequisites: None

Summer (1 credit), Spring (2 credits)

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course is designed to help educate health promotion practitioners in how to organize community groups to promote health. The focus is on learning how to use resources available in the community to advocate change. Prerequisites: PubH 206

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course will provide an interdisciplinary overview of HIV prevention research from the behavioral, biological and biomedical perspective. Students are encouraged to approach the assignments and discussions from their own particular expertise and career interests/goals.

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course focuses on the use of marketing research techniques to better understand customers of public health programs, and thereby to improve program design, implementation, and effectiveness. A range of qualitative and quantitative techniques will be studied for their relevance to program planning, development, and continuous improvement.

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course focuses on the use of communication to positively influence people's -- and population's -- understanding of health information, decision-making, and health behavior. In this skills-based course students will study, and in a group project apply, a range of theories and techniques germane to effective message design and delivery. Prereq: PubH 363.

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course focuses on the use of marketing to change the behavior of people, populations, and policy makers in ways that are in their, and society’s, best interest. Students in this skills-based course will study and work in teams to apply a range of marketing strategies to a real-world situation. Prereq: PubH 363.

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

This course focuses on the use of communication campaigns to positively influence public policy, and the policies of private organizations, with regard to enhancing the public’s health. In this skills-based course students will study, and in a group project apply, a range of theories and techniques germane to the policy advocacy process. Prereq: PubH 363.

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Principles of public health practice and policy with a focus on the interdisciplinary and strategic application of skills, knowledge and competencies necessary both to perform public health core functions and to enhance the capacity to perform these functions. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Public Health

In this course students review principles of measurement and assessment as they apply to public health and health services research constructs, review existing state-of-the-art measures of individual and population health status (e.g., morbidity, mortality, functioning and health-related quality of life) and of individual and community health behavior, and explore current measurement issues in health research. Prerequisites: PubH 252.401

Spring

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Examination and assessment of issues related to the intersection of healthcare systems and health policy, and how health policy and health services research can inform the development and evaluation of healthcare systems and health policy. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Health Policy

Advanced Topics relating theory to practice in areas of health education and behavioral change. Application of qualitative and quantitative research to health related behavior at individual and community levels. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Alternative field methods adopted from sociology, anthropology, economics, and political sciences for social sciences and policy research. Builds data collection, instruments, measurements, indicators, and data analysis and interpretation skills in specific socio-cultural contexts. Explores ethical issues in international research. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Global Health

This course introduces the student to a range of environmental health (EH) risk analysis paradigms and to the sciences that contribute to recognizing, characterizing, and responding to EH risks. The strengths and weaknesses of the fundamental principles, methods, and products of these sciences will be explored through discussion of case studies and current issues. A wide range of EH problems will be used to illustrate scientific conflicts and variations in practical applications. Prerequisites: PubH 222.224

Fall

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Examines a range of critical financing issues for U.S. public health and health care services/systems. Considers the role of health services research in (1) understanding the effects of these issues and (2) informing the deliberations and decisions of policymakers. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Policy

Examines the methods of communications research designated to alter health behavior. Emphasis placed on critical analysis of communications research aimed at the mass public, groups, and interpersonal level. Prerequisites: PubH 405

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

A participatory graduate seminar providing a continuity bridge for departmental DrPH students progressing into the second and third years of academic study. Designated to provide students with the tools and experience needed to build their capacity for leadership in global health. Prerequisites: PubH 406

As needed

Offered by: Global Health

Discussion of case studies emphasizing study design, methods, measurements, ethical issues, and procedures. Focus on interdisciplinary research strategies appropriate for workplace and community settings. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Environmental and Occupational Health

Students participate in a range of activities designed to develop and enhance their teaching skills. These activities include course development, teaching masters level courses, acting as TA for undergraduate courses, advising students about their class performance, evaluating student performance, and developing remedial programs for students. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Public Health

Students participate in a range of activities designed to develop and enhance their research methods and analytic skills. These activities include participating in the development and submission of sponsored research proposals; being formally affiliated with a research project, assuming responsibility for completing a real-world research project; engaging in empirical data collection and analysis efforts. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Public Health

Students participate in a range of activities designed to develop and enhance their management, leadership and policymaking skills as applied to problem solving in real-world settings, such as public health departments, community health centers, legislative settings, and public or teaching hospitals. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Public Health

Techniques for designing and conducting qualitative research and for analyzing and reporting qualitative data relevant to program development and implementation, community assessment, and policy analysis. Prerequisites: PubH 252.402

Spring

Offered by: Public Health

Principles of evaluation research emphasizing the ability to synthesize the population-based intervention literature, apply planning and management methods, describe and apply research methods from a range of disciplines, and prepare research proposals at the R01 level. Prerequisites: PubH 403

Fall

Offered by: Prevention and Community Health

Design of protocol suitable for implementation as part of Doctor of Public Health dissertation requirement. Prerequisites: Pass Comprehensive Exam, PubH 417

Fall, Spring

Offered by: Public Health

Dissertation Research for DrPH Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Public Health

Topic to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

Study of research methods, experimental design, sampling techniques, and data analysis for the exercise sciences. Specific areas of focus are basic vs. applied research, experimental vs. non-experimental studies, biased and unbiased sampling, measures of reliability and validity, shapes of distributions, descriptive and inferential statistics and meta-analytical techniques. Prerequisites:Stat 053 or equivalent

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

A study of various environmental and occupational factors that influence exercise, injury rehabilitation, a healthy work setting, and other applications encountered by exercise science professionals. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

An introduction to the discipline of epidemiology and its application to health issues and practices. Emphasis is placed on basic concepts, measures of disease frequency, data sources, study designs, results and interpretations, public health screening, infectious disease, chronic disease, nutritional, and physical activity epidemiology. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

An overview of physiological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors associated with the development and maintenance of weight-related attitudes, behaviors, and disorders. Emphasis is placed on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, body image disturbance, and eating disorders. The health professional's role in the prevention of eating disorders is examined and primary, secondary, & tertiary prevention strategies are discussed. Prerequisites: None

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

A study of the biochemical adaptations that occur during acute exercise or as a result of prolonged exercise training and how nutrient availability affects exercise performance. Emphasis is placed on muscle physiology and the biochemical regulators of intermediary metabolism. Prerequisite: EXSC 119, EXSC 152 or Equivalent.

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

Emphasis is on nutritional needs and issues for special populations. Covers concerns that affect nutritional status, such as pregnancy, lactation, and breast feeding, physical activity, and disordered eating. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Evaluation tools used in exercise, nutrition, and behavior therapy. Students learn how to assess eating and exercise behaviors, as well as learn counseling and communication strategies for helping clients change their behaviors.

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Focus on selected psychological and social psychological factors related to the physical activity experience. Students will explore the ways in which various psychological components influence behavior and the manner in which these resulting behaviors might be addressed in a variety of situations. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

A variety of contemporary issues related to obesity are studied. Topics include obesity and health risks, factors promoting fat deposition and metabolism, traditional vs. non-traditional weight-loss programs, and adherence to weight-loss programs. Recommendations for developing a comprehensive weight management program are proposed. Prerequisites: None

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

This course provides an overview of health promotion programs, related research and scientific foundations, national policy review, health management strategies and fitness program integration in the community health care and worksite markets. Emphasis is placed on worksite health promotion needs analysis, budgeting, program design, marketing, implementation and evaluation systems.

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Examines the acute and chronic adaptations of the cardiovascular system to various types of exercise training. Special attention is focused on the neural and metabolic control mechanisms which govern blood flow to skeletal muscle during exercise. The role that the cardiovascular system plays as a potential limiting factor during aerobic exercise is also extensively explored. Prerequisite or co-requisite EXSC 152 or equivalent.

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

This course is designed for in depth exploration of the effects of acute and chronic exercise in the older adult, and populations with hypertension, diabetes, asthma and other pulmonary conditions, and other clinical conditions impacting the response to exercise. Prerequisite EXSC 152 or Equivalent.

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Methods and techniques for providing individualized exercise and fitness prescriptions based on measurement and evaluation of physical fitness and health-related variables. Prerequisites:EXSC 152 or permission of instructor

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

Applied physiology of exercise and psychological stress in relation to coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction; the principles and practice of rehabilitation of patients recovering from a coronary event by exercise therapy and risk factor reduction. Prerequisites:EXSC 152 or permission of instructor

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

Examination of human physiological adaptations to resistance training with neuromuscular system as primary focus. Prerequisite/co-requisite: EXSC 152 or Equivalent. Co-requisite: EXSC 252, 223.

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Application of mechanical analysis techniques to the human body in motion. Prerequisite: EXSC 151 or Equivalent. Co-requisite: EXSC 252, 223.

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Understanding and application of power training methods. Prerequisite: EXSC 152 or Equivalent. Co-requisite: EXSC 252,223.

Fall

Offered by: Exercise Science

Current scientific findings related to the field of strength and conditioning. Prerequisite/co-requisite: EXSC 152 and EXSC 261. Co-requisite: EXSC 252, 223.

Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Exploration of the theory of physical conditioning, how to apply the knowledge to condition the athlete, and how to maximize physiological testing and training to improve athletic performance. Prerequisites:EXSC 152 or permission of instructor

Summer

Offered by: Exercise Science

This course provides supervised clinical experiences at local area hospitals for students in the Clinical Exercise Physiology Concentration. Students will observe and participate in the assessment, treatment and education of patients with a variety of chronic diseases. Prerequisite/co-requisite: EXSC 254.

Offered by: Exercise Science

This course provides supervised internship, practicum, and fieldwork experience in nutrition and exercise program development, nutrition and exercise education, health promotion, fitness assessment, disease risk assessment, and nutrition and exercise interventions for special populations. The target populations are elderly ethnic minorities of low income, as well as disadvantaged youth. Community sites include subsidized housing facilities, faith-based community programs, senior citizens’ centers, and community food banks. Prerequisites, EXSC 225, EXSC 245, EXSC 255

Summer, Fall, Spring

Offered by: Exercise Science

Topic to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Contemporary issues and problems; development of advanced professional competencies. May be repeated for credit with permission of advisor. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

For MS degree candidates enrolled in the department. Fieldwork, internship, and/or instructional practice, including conference and/or seminar. May be repeated once for credit with permission of advisor. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

Topic to be announced in Schedule of Classes. May be repeated for credit with advisor's approval. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

For MS degree candidates enrolled in the department. May be repeated for credit with advisor's approval. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

Independent research and study pertinent to the needs of the student. Limited to MS degree candidates in Exercise Science. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

Limited to MS degree candidates in Exercise Science. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Exercise Science

Introduction to the systems that define and shape delivery of health services in the United States. Case studies and presentations on major issues develop an appreciation of dilemmas confronting policymakers, providers, and patients: balancing cost, quality and access. Access and disparity, health care professions, facilities, managed care organizations and government health care programs. Policy changes that have had major impact on American health care in the past century. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Introduction to management topics essential for those seeking to serve in mid-level and senior positions at organizations providing and/or assessing health and public health services. The course strives to embed theses theories in the context of the case. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory of quality and performance improvement in health services organizations and systems. Emphasis on the Deming method of continuous quality improvement (CQI); Six Sigma; International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards; Baldrige criteria; accreditation programs. Prerequisites:HSML 203

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Application of epidemiology and analytical methods to improve population health, enhance decision-making, and introduce operations management. The concepts and procedures complement HSML courses for information management and finance. Prerequisites:2 or 3 semester hours in Introductory statistics

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Organization and management of information technology in modern healthcare organizations with an emphasis on the acute care hospital. Use of information technology in hospital clinical, support, and administrative departments. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Comprehensive study of the role and impact of IT in health services organizations. Specific emphasis on the role IT plays from managerial and clinical perspectives. Topics include ROI, privacy, error reduction, change management, and decision support systems. Prerequisites:HSML 207

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Introduction to health resource management and funds administration for health services organizations. Budgets, financial statements, and reports. Financial analysis. Management of plant and equipment. Regulation and containment of costs. Safeguarding assets. Prerequisites:2-3 semester hours in introductory accounting

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Application of health finance theory to health services organizations and systems. Budgeting process, understanding profit and loss, managing resources including accounts receivable, labor and supplies. The budget as a tool for analyzing operational changes. Prerequisites:HSML 209

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Economics of the health care sector. An economic analysis of public policy alternatives in the health industry. Roles of the physician, hospital, insurance, and other health care markets are examined. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Concepts and techniques to planning, managing, and advocating for community health programs and services. Focus on social contract, the Precede-Proceed Model and principles of community-oriented primary care. Students will study or conduct a community health promotion project. Prerequisites:HSML 202.203

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Concepts of planning and marketing as they apply to health services organizations. Particular emphasis on uses of planning and marketing techniques in managing departments and individual health services programs. Prerequisites:HSML 204.212

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Sources of law and legal processes affecting health services. Administrative law and agency processes. Legal aspects of torts and contracts for physicians, staff, patients, and health services organizations and systems. Trends in health services law. Prerequisites:HSML 202.203

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory and application of human behavior, human resource management, and labor relations policies, concepts and practices as they affect health services organizations. Primary focus is on managing people at work and developing management skills. Prerequisites:HSML 202.203

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Intensive qualitative and quantitative analyses of major problem areas in health system administration and planning using the case study method. Cases cover the broad spectrum of health policy, planning and management of the health services system. Serves as the capstone course for health services students. Taken in the last semester on campus. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Current leadership thought and competencies focusing on leadership styles, motivation, change management, innovation, creativity, emotional intelligence, organizational learning, and corporate culture. Prerequisites:HSML 203

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Applies management and leadership theory to small groups, e.g. committees, patient care teams, process improvement groups, task forces, etc. Methods to establish, organize, develop, and manage teams for problem-solving. Students are assigned to interdisciplinary teams as facilitators and receive feedback on their performance. Part of medical Center's service learning program-ISCOPES (Interdisciplinary Student Community-Oriented Prevention Enhancement Service). Prerequisites:HSML 204.212 or equivalent

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Application of quality and performance improvement concepts and techniques in health services organizations. Emphases on establishing and maintaining organization-wide efforts to improve quality. Applications of failure mode and effect analysis, Baldrige Quality Award Criteria, and Six Sigma. Prerequisites:HSML 204 or equivalent

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Application of strategic planning concepts to health services. Study of the strategic planning process as a series of interrelated analyses, decisions and management actions, including representative analytic methods. Discussion of the relationships among strategic planning, project/facility planning, marketing, financial planning, and quality improvement. Prerequisites:HSML 213

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Application of concepts and techniques of advocating for and influencing change on behalf of organizations, the community, and the health services industry. Legislative process, lobbying, role of governance, selection and use of media, coalition building, and community relations, outreach, and needs assessment. Prerequisites:HSML 212 or eqivalent

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Organizing and managing acute care hospitals. Relationships and procedures of clinical, support, and administrative departments. Process analyses and applications of the Deming method of continuous quality improvement. Requirements of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204.209 or instuctor's permission

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Readings and guest speakers. Focus on management theory applied in freestanding and multi-institutional health services units. Lessons learned by health services executives are shown through vignettes and presentation of experiences. Seminar Format. Prerequisites:HSML 202.203 or instructor's permission

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Study of the organizations and systems to deliver behavioral health services; emphasis on organizing, managing, and financing treatment and rehabilitation facilities. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204.209

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory and principles of practice management. Emphasis on the fundamentals of organizing, staffing, and controlling a physician practice. Financial applications and resource consumption. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204.209

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Organization and management of non-nursing home post-acute care programs and facilities. Management of both institutional and non-institutional post-acute care settings including assisted living, home health care, adult day care, continuing care retirement communities, and other facilities for persons needing long-term specialty care. Emphasis on personal and professional skills necessary to provide a wide range of services and quality care in these settings. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Problems of aging and disabilities including social, psychological, biological, economic and health services needs. Theory and research explore attitudes and behaviors based on contact with older and/or disabled persons. Delivery of informal and social services to aged and disabled persons. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Organizing, financing, and managing the skilled nursing facility. Determining residents' needs and developing appropriate services. Accreditation Standards. Government regulations and licensing requirements. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204.209.236

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Organizing and managing ambulatory care. Models, financing, institutional affiliations, estimating and planning for ambulatory care, and using medical group practice as part of comprehensive services delivery. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204.209

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and utilization management (UM) in fee-for-service plans. Formation, organization, contractual arrangements, and medical management of managed care regarding costs, utilization, quality, and access are analyzed from the perspectives of managed care organizations, employers, providers, and public policy. Role of government in managed care, competition and marketing of managed care plans, and relationships between plans and providers. Efficacy of managed care in public and private sectors is explored. Prerequisites:HSML 202.204.209

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Application of concepts and techniques for organizing and implementing compliance, risk management, and patient safety programs within the context of quality and performance improvement. Emphasis on organizational values as a condition to success. Recent compliance requirements will be addressed (e.g., HIPAA). Prerequisites:HSML 202.203 or equivalent

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory and application of distribution management of materials, services, and information in health services organizations. Suppliers, inventory control, negotiating and managing contracts, joint and shared purchasing. Prerequisites:HSML 204.206

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory and application of management science techniques to manage and improve effectiveness of service lines, programs, and projects in health services. Business case development, planning, project management tools, and program evaluation. Prerequisites:HSML 204

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory and practice of healthcare consulting - what it is, how it is practiced, how it operates as a business, and concepts of "best practices." Prerequisites:HSML 202.203 or instructor's permission

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Managerial implications of ethical issues in health services delivery: administrative and institutional ethics; professional codes; conflicts of interest, impaired professionals, end-of-life decisions, experimentation, and new technology; resource allocation. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Theory and methods of advanced health resource management. Prospective payment systems; capital financing, investment, and decision making; buy-lease analyses; financial feasibility studies; cost accounting; strategic financial planning. Prerequisites:HSML 211

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Economic concepts and the role of government and public health programs. Areas of focus include health services financing, reimbursement, and current issues related to changes in the health care system. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Field research. Primarily for advanced students; open to others with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Work experience guided by a qualified preceptor on selected management and planning issues and problems occurring in health services facilities, programs, and agencies. Primarily for advanced master's and doctoral students; open to other students by arrangement. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Work experience guided by a qualified preceptor; periodic written progress reports and a written major report or selected field projects as required. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Supervised readings in special areas of health services management. Primarily for advanced students; open to others by arrangement. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Experimental offering; new course topics and teaching methods. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Limited to doctoral candidates preparing for the general examination. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership

Limited to doctoral candidates. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: None

Offered by: Health Services Management and Leadership