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Aug 02, 2025
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PBH 1010 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH
credits: 3.0
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of public health using a practical and equity-focused approach. It examines public health and healthcare using a social justice lens and emphasizes the interconnection of population and individual health both in the United States and globally. Key public health concepts covered include but are not limited to: the history of public health and its impact, the importance of health equity and human rights, current issues in public health, analytical methods used in public health, social determinants of health, the unique needs of special populations and the global impact of public health. Students will appreciate how politics and policymaking are an inherent part of public health initiatives and identify the challenges that public health will face going to the future. Objectives: A) Describe how historical events and threats to public health have informed the evolution of the discipline of public health; B) Describe how factors that impact human health influence the global and societal burden of disease and contribute to health disparities and individual and community health outcomes; C) Integrate a social justice lens to describe major causes and trends of public health; D) Identify the core functions of public health (assessment, policy development, and assurance) and explain how each contributes to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of diseases in different settings; E) Explain how public health is organized at the local, state, national, and international levels; F) Compare and critique public health and healthcare organizations, systems, and approaches; G) Examine the methods used to measure the health of populations, find causes, and develop programs that work. Method of Instruction: Assigned Readings, Interactive Lecture/Discussion, Audiovisuals and Models, and Written Assignments. Method of Evaluation: Class Participation 5%, Quizzes 25%, Class Assignments 20%, Presentation 15%, and Public Health Issue Paper 35%.
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