HLTH 1510 - Foundations of Public Health

4.5 Credits

Foundations of Public Health provides students with foundational knowledge of public health’s historical contributions; the ethical bases; key terms and concepts; system organization; and the social, behavioral, psychological, and biological factors that contribute to specific individual and community health outcomes through interactive learning strategies and the application and integration of concepts to understand and prevent current public health problems and those facing public health in the 21st century.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Understand the context and scope of public health, including history, philosophy, literature, essential services, ethics, and applications to current events-public health placed in historical and modern perspectives.
Recognize public health as cross-cutting and systematic-interdisciplinary concepts introduced early and integrated throughout the course ( e.g., examining the options for interventions to address public health concerns).
Analyze the health workforce-professional roles and career options within the health care and public health workforce.
Design an organization of health care and public health systems-institutions and structures of health care and public health systems, both national and international; the distinct roles and complementary responsibilities of health care and public health systems.
Discuss the costs, quality, and access to health-care and public health services-financing of health care and public health services and efforts to control costs; meanings and measurement of quality; and impacts of inadequate access.

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