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Community Assessment
PBHL 550 Spring Quarter
Provides students with the competencies needed to enhance the health of the community. Critical in this course is the role of empowerment in the context of community health, and the central role of community residents in the identification of local issues, goals, and priorities affecting their lives and neighborhoods. (Offers a four-week practicum enabling students to develop community-health assessment skills in a community setting.)
4 credits
Management, Leadership, Assurance and Health Services
PBHL 600 Winter Quarter
Explores critical elements of the assurance from the premise that effectiveness of program delivery and the assurance role itself requires understanding of organizations, leadership and change, in economic, strategic, and systemic context. Applies management concepts and theories through an integrated model of the management process. Extends, applies, and integrates previously developed concepts and theories with those of strategy, planning, accounting, financial management, and information systems.
4 credits
Environmental Health
PBHL 640 Winter Quarter
Introduces environmental health issues and effective management of environmental exposures. The specific topics covered during this course include safe drinking water, air quality, hazardous waste disposal, environmental disease clusters and bioterrorism.
4 credits
Policy and Advocacy
PBHL 650 Spring Quarter
Introduces the fundamentals of public-health law and the concepts and theories of health-policy development, adoption, and evaluation. Introduces the advocacy process and its importance to development of sound public health policy. Emphasizes systemic integration and the integration of the assessment, assurance, and policy development roles of public health.
4 credits
Occupational Health
PBHL 660 Spring Quarter
Introduces occupational health issues and demonstrates effective control activities related to workplace exposures. The specific topics covered during this course include working in a nursing home, agricultural work and exposure to pesticides, industrial hygiene, and asbestos as a workplace carcinogen.
4 credits
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