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PHP 900 - Public Health Care Systems
Credits:
3.00
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the United States and on the structure and function of
their component parts. It examines the impact on the system
of a wide range of external factors including social,
political, economic, professional, legal, and technological
forces.
PHP 901 - Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Exploration of factors underlying the distribution andÿ¿
determinants of states of health in various human
populations. Emphasis is placed on investigative
techniques, epidemiologic methodology, and disease
prevention. Unlike other core courses in the MPH Program
which are 8 weeks in length, this course is 16 weeks in
length.
PHP 902 - Environmental Health
Credits:
3.00
This course offers a general introduction to the
ecological basis of health and disease. It applies the
principles and framework of ecosystems to human health
problems associated with environmental hazards, including
toxic and infectious agents that contaminate our air,
water, food, the work place and other special environments.
Links between environmental and occupational health effects
will be explored within the public health model. Policy
required for regulation and alternative strategies for
prevention will be discussed.
PHP 903 - Biostatistics
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the principles of›ÿ¿
biostatistics. Students learn through classroom
instruction, lab instruction and exercises, a variety of
statistical methods in public health. Students review
measures of central tendency, rates, and standardization,
probability, sampling, hypothesis testing, comparisons, and
simple, multiple and logistic regression techniques. Unlike
other core courses in the MPH Program which are 8 weeks in
length, this course is 16 weeks in length.
PHP 904 - Social and Behavioral Health
Credits:
3.00
A graduate level course which provides fundamental
concepts of the behavioral sciences as they illuminate
public health. Since public health practice is the
application of physical, biological and behavioral
knowledge to living societies, a firm understanding of
human social organization and behavior is essential.
Individual and community responses to prevention,
identification of symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, chronic
ailments and rehabilitation are discussed. In each of these
areas, the course explores the interaction between
community, family, patient, and health care provider.
PHP 905 - Public Health Administration
Credits:
3.00
This course focuses on public health managers,ÿ
organizational culture, management process, management
functions and roles, leadership, motivation, communication,
and human resource management.
PHP 906 - Public Health Finance and Budgeting
Credits:
3.00
This course reviews the manner in which public healthÿ¿
services are financed in the United States, including
sources and uses of such funds. In addition students will
be introduced to the vocabulary and tools of financial
management and budgeting, including financial statements,
basic accounting conventions, and the process of developing
and managing a programmatic budget.
PHP 907 - Public Health Policy
Credits:
3.00
An analysis of the public policy process, the development
of public health policy in the United States, and a
discussion of specific public health policy issues with
international comparisons. This course begins with an
analytical framework for analyzing the American political
system and process. It is followed by a general
introduction to health policy in the United States with
examples of specific policies and programs. Students will
be asked to examine specific public health policy in-depth.
PHP 908 - Public Health Ethics
Credits:
3.00
This course examines selected ethical issues arising in¿
public health policy and practice and ethical dilemmas
faced by public health professionals, practitioners, and
researchers. Students analyze competing personal,
organizational,professional, and societal interests,
values, and responsibilities. Case studies apply different
models of ethical decision making and provide MPH students
with an added opportunity to explore and clarify their
values and those of their colleagues.
PHP 912 - Public Health Law
Credits:
3.00
This course seeks to provide the legal basis for public
health that is needed to effectively practice public
health, especially with respect to understanding and
enforcing compliance with public health regulations, and
managing public health programs and organizations. The
course introduces the core elements of law, legal practice
and reasoning, and illustrates their application and use in
public health.
PHP 914 - Public Health Policy Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Analysis of the public policy outputs from theÿ
perspectives of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity by
applying analytical tools to public health policies in the
United States. This course begins by examining the major
methods used to examine health policy outputs. The
perspectives of effectiveness, efficiency and equity are
used as a framework for the course. Students read and
critique articles from health services research literature
that use previously learned methodologies.
PHP 916 - Survey Research in Public Health
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to the principles in design and use of health
surveys through classroom instruction, exercises, and
projects. Topics include survey types, question formation,
validity of measures, sampling, response rates,
confidentiality, data weighting, hypothesis testing, and
other topics.
PHP 920 - Social Marketing
Credits:
3.00
This course offers and introduces students to the
vocabulary and tools of marketing public health programs
and services. Expanding upon traditional principles of
marketing and consumer behavior the student will be exposed
to the theory, practice and challenges of marketing social
change. The course also explores the current and emerging
issues related to public health marketing.
PHP 922 - Public Health Economics
Credits:
3.00
This course gives each student a hands-on opportunity to
become familiar with a broad range of health economics
issues and analyses. The objective is to help its
graduates successfully compete for advancement in careers
requiring knowledge of health policy analysis.
PHP 924 - Policy and Practice of Community Health Assessment
Credits:
3.00
This course explores the process of community healthð›ÿ¿
assessment as a tool for bridging the gap between public
health and the personal health care system. It provides an
historical perspective of using population based
measurements as a framework for health improvement
initiatives. It examines several community health
assessment methodologies and explores the complexity of
developing a community-based health assessment.
PHP 926 - Evaluation in Public Health
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to program evaluation as it relates to¿
public health practice and research, primarily in the
United States. Public health-specific examples are
presented throughout the course. Includes discussion of
striking a balance between scientific rigor and the
practicalities often faced by program evaluators.
PHP 928 - Principles of Toxiocology
Credits:
3.00
This special topics lecture course in public health ecology
is an introduction to the science of toxicology. Students
gain an understanding of broad toxicological principles and
their appplication to current public health issues. In
general, the course provides a mechanistic basis for how
substances initiate toxicity, the major environmental
determinants of risk, and the risk assessment framework.
Examples of toxicants to be examined include the following:
drugs, pesticides, food additives and contaminants,
environmental pollutants, natural and household products.
PHP 930 - Climate Change and Health
Credits:
3.00
An overview of the climate system including its physical
and chemical compounds, the greenhouse effect, forcing
agents and dynamics at global, regional and local scales.
Human dimensions of climate change will be considered in
light of data and models. An environmental epidemiology
framework for analyzing the direct and indirect impacts of
climate variability to public health as well as appropriate
public policies, such as monitoring the greenhouse gas
emission reductions will be developed.
PHP 932 - Disease Ecology
Credits:
3.00
Students will have an understanding of the basic structure
and dynamics of: climate system, ecological systems,
social systems. Also gained will be the understanding of
epidemiological significance of co evolutionary processes
linking climate system with ecological and social systems
that influence the interaction between human beings and
disease agents and the understanding of the relational
significance of assessment frameworks including ecosystem
health, ecosystem services, environmental epidemiology,
epidemiological environment.
PHP 934 - Work Environment Policy and the Health of Workers
Credits:
3.00
Overview of occupational safety and health policy in the
U.S. Focus on the legal context, especially on OSHA, and
provides an analytical framework for examining the role of
social, economic, and political factors in the recognition
and control of occupational hazards. Some attention to the
more technical aspects of this field (e.g., industrial
hygiene, ergonomics, general health and safety); emphasis
on understanding current occupational health and safety
policies and controversies.
PHP 940 - Public Health Nursing I
Credits:
3.00
In the context of history, standards, and research in the
field of public health and the roles to be played by
public health nursing in their situation. The framework is
based on the first three stages used in the scope of
practice: community assessment, diagnosis, and outcomes
identification.
PHP 942 - Public Health Nursing II
Credits:
3.00
Role and leadership: the remaining three stages of the¿
scope of practice is used as the framework of this course:
program planning, assurance, and evaluation. The function
of policy development and leadership roles such as project
management, case management, teaching and research are
developed as means for operationalizing this practice.
International implications for practice will be considered.
PHP 950 - Seminar in Epidemiologic Study Design
Credits:
3.00
Seminar engages in in-depth exploration of key papers in
epidemiologic methodology. Topics include linking causal
theory with study design and prevention efforts, precision
of exposure and disease management and effects estimation,
internal and external validity, confounding, and
methodological issues in cohort and case studies. Prereq:
PHP 901, 903, or instructor permission.
PHP 960 - Nutritional Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Reviews the principles and application of nutritionalÿ¿
epidemiology. The major methods of nutritional assessment
of populations and individuals are presented and discussed,
as well as the evidence of diet-disease relationships.
Covers theoretical as well as practical aspects. Prereq:
permission.
PHP 964 - Applied Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Course provides a thorough understanding of essential›ÿ¿
statistical and epidemiological concepts and their
effective application in everyday public health practice.
Students are given numerous real-life examples to
demonstrate the theory in practice. Prereq: PHP 901 and
instructor permission.
PHP 966 - Health Information Systems and Technology
Credits:
3.00
Course provides a graduate level perspective of the use of
information technology to improve clinical and operation
performance of a variety of health care settings. Topics
such as: data collection and storage, enterprise
applications, data warehousing, analytics, health
information exchange, patient privacy and security, and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are discussed.
Students gain insight as to the extent of the role of
information systems play in our health care system.
PHP 985A - Special Topics in Policy and Management
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Study of a special topic in Public Health Policy and›ÿ¿
Management. May be repeated up to a maximum of 3 credits.
Prereq: permission.
PHP 985B - Special Topics in Public Health Ecology
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Study of a special topic in Public Health Ecology. May be
repeated up to a maximum of 3 credits. Prereq: permission.
PHP 985C - Special Topics in Public Health Nursing
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Study of a special topic in Public Health Nursing. May be
repeated up to a maximum of 3 credits. Prereq: permission.
PHP 990 - Field Study
Credits:
3.00
This course provides a 16-week long opportunity for
students to synthesize, integrate, and apply the skills
and competencies they have acquired during enrollment in
the MPH Program and apply them to a public health problem
or project in a professional public health practice
setting. Students are expected to spend a minimum of 40
hours in the organization (not including preparation time)
exploring how that organization deals with a particular
public health issue and working on a project for that
organization. In addition, students present the findings of
their work in a poster session following the conclusion of
the course. This public health experience is conducted
under the direction of a faculty member and a community
public health mentor. This class meets one hour prior to
the regularly scheduled core and elective courses in the
MPH Program. Prereq: Completion of core courses and
permission of course instructor and MPH Program Director.
PHP 992 - Applied Topics in the Essentials of Public Health
Credits:
3.00
Course requires students to attend at least six approved
workshops on concepts related to the ten essential
services of public health. After attending the required
workshops, students write an integrating paper summarizing
what s/he has learned across these workshops as it relates
to the ten essential services and identify the types of
skills s/he needs to be more effective as a public health
professional.
PHP 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Directed readings and other activities to explore a
specific topic related to public health. May be repeated
up to a maximum of 3 credits. Prereq: Permission of faculty
member and MPH Program Director.
PHP 996 - Applied Topics in the Essentials of Public Health
Credits:
3.00
This course will require students to attend at least six
approved workshops on concepts related to the Ten
Essential Services of Public Health. After attending the
required workshops, a student will write an integrating
paper summarizing what s/he has learned across these
workshops at it relates to the Ten Essential Services and
identify the types of skills s/he will need to be more
effective as a public health professional.
PHP 998 - Integrating Seminar
Credits:
3.00
This final course in the MPH curriculum serves as the›ÿ¿
capstone to the MPH degree and provides the opportunity
for students to work in teams, bringing both their
individual and joint perspectives and expertise, to address
a particular public health problem for a New
Hampshire-based public health entity. This course
incorporates substantive, analytical, administrative, and
policy perspectives. Students make a formal presentation of
recommendations at the conclusion of the course. This class
meets one hour prior to the regularly scheduled core and
elective courses in the MPH Program. Prereq: Completion of
core courses and permission of course instructor and MPH
Program Director.