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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PHC6756
Tracking Number - 5074
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2016-08-01
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Required for MPH - Public Health. To GC. Approved. Ready for SCNS 4/21/16. Desc too long. Corrected on 6/15/16 resbumitted. CNS approved 6080 as 6756 eff 8/1/16. Co-req is PHC 6588
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2014-09-28
- Department: Public Health
- College: PH
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: Rita DeBate
- Phone: 46683
- Email: rdebate@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: PHC
- Number: 6756
- Full Title: Population Assessment: Part 1
- Credit Hours: 5
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: N
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Population Assessment 1
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
-
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: PHC 6600 History & Systems of Public Health
- Course Description: Fundamentals of population assessment in public health including concepts and skills in systems thinking, public health biology, health behavior, environmental health, health policy, global health, epidemiology, and biostatistics. Part 1 or 2.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for accreditation
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? All incoming MPH students would be required to take the course
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 1 time
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Experience in public health practice and teaching.
- Objectives: 1. Recognize biological, environmental, socio-economic, behavioral, cultural, political and other factors that impact human health, influence the global and societal burden of disease, and contribute to health disparities across the lifespan
2. Describe Globalization and sustainable development and their relationship to population health
3. Demonstrate principles of effective functioning within and across organizations and as members of interdisciplinary and inter-professional teams in addition to respectful engagement with people of different cultures and socioeconomic strata
4. Describe Legal, ethical, economic, and regulatory dimensions of health care and public health policy, the roles, influences, and responsibilities of the different agencies and branches of government, and approaches to developing, evaluating, and advocating for public health policies
5. Illustrate concepts, methods, and tools of public health data collection, analysis and interpretation, and the evidence-based reasoning and informatics approaches that are essential to public health practice
6. Apply effective written and oral skills for communicating with different audiences in the context of professional public health activities.
- Learning Outcomes: Module 1: Systems Thinking and Public Health
Examine a systems framework that integrates the life course and socio-ecological model for assessing and addressing public health issues
Identify and analyze determinants and feedback loops related to public health issues within and between levels of a systems framework
Interpret the role of biological, behavioral, environmental (built, physical, and social), community, policy, and global factors in the onset of public health issues and prevention efforts through a systems framework
Compare and contrast nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales
Examine a systems framework that integrates the life course and socio-ecological model for assessing and addressing public health issues
Demonstrate methods used to study the distribution and determinants of public health issues (e.g., incidence, prevalence, rates, etc.)
Compare and contrast nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales
Compare and contrast nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales.
o Identify appropriate methods based on scale of measurement
Demonstrate specific descriptive techniques commonly used in public health research including: tables; graphs; statistical measures of central tendency, variability, relative position and distributional shape.
Examine how the public health information infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain, and disseminate data.
Examine basic informatics techniques with vital statistics and public health records in the description of public health characteristics and in public health research and evaluation.
Examine how a summary article on a selected disease relates to the systems framework
Module 2:Underwater Systems Level: Biology and Public Health
Interpret the role of biological, factors in the onset of public health issues and prevention efforts through a systems framework
o Explain the biological and molecular basis of public health
o Explain how biological agents affect human heath
o Illustrate the risks and benefits of genomic innovations in relation to human health
o Examine ethical, social and legal issues implied by public health biology
Review the direct and indirect human, ecological and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
Explain the general mechanisms of toxicity in eliciting a toxic response
Analyze genetic, physiologic and psychosocial factors that affect susceptibility to adverse health outcome following exposure to environmental hazards
Identify control methods to minimize health hazards
Examine how biological system factors have influenced public health policy
Explain how genetics and genomics affect disease processes and public health policy and practice
Examine the basic skills of applied epidemiologic techniques in screening for disease control
Identify methods used to investigate an epidemic outbreak and techniques for disease surveillance
Compare and contrast nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales.
o Identify appropriate methods based on scale of measurement
Demonstrate specific descriptive techniques commonly used in public health research including: tables; graphs; statistical measures of central tendency, variability, relative position and distributional shape.
o Interpret measures of health status and measures of association: risk and odds ratios.
Identify preferred methodological alternatives to commonly used statistical methods when assumptions are not
met.
Identify good public health research sources, produce systematic notes and tables, and synthesize research results without plagiarizing.
Module 3: Individual Systems Level: Health Behavior and Motivation
Interpret the role of behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental factors in the onset of public health issues and prevention efforts through a systems framework
Indicate individual factors influencing public health issues and prevention strategies
Interpret how individual factors can alter human biology.
Apply basic theories, concepts and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that can be used to explain and predict individual system factors.
Examine how behavioral theories and methods are used to assess public health in terms of the factors that influence their development and alternative approaches to their resolution.
Analyze genetic, physiologic and psychosocial factors that affect susceptibility to adverse health outcome following exposure to environmental hazards.
Interpret responses to various environmental exposures
o Examine principles associated with infectious and zoonotic agents
o Examine the effects of foodborne, waterborne, and vector borne infections
Examine how Individual system factors have influenced public health policy and vice versa.
Explain how basic concepts of probability and random variation are related to descriptive and inferential methods utilized by biostatistics (and epidemiology).
Interpret the framework and concepts of hypothesis testing, including sampling distribution, type I and II errors, and statistical power.
o Apply specific inferential techniques commonly used in public health research including: confidence intervals; Z-tests; t-tests; one sample tests for a proportion; McNemar's test; analysis of variance; multiple comparison procedures;
o Apply methods to compute statistical power.
o Pearson product-moment correlation; Chi square; simple linear regression;
o Apply basic non-parametric methods when distribution based methods are not appropriate.
Identify good public health research sources, produce systematic notes and tables, and synthesize research results without plagiarizing.
Produce a literature review of a disease, utilizing a public health perspective on multiple systems levels, with references, citations, and adapted sources in APA style.
Module 4: Micro System Level: Our Environment
Interpret the role of group, families, home, and social network factors in the onset of public health issues and prevention efforts through a systems framework
Indicate the impact of the social environment (e.g., social networks, social capital, social cohesion etc.) on public health
Apply basic theories, concepts and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that can be used to explain and predict Micro system factors.
Examine how environmental/community theories and methods are used to assess public health in terms of the factors that influence their development and alternative approaches to their resolution.
Review the direct and indirect human, ecological and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
Interpret the role of group, families, home, and social network factors in the onset of public health issues and prevention efforts through a systems framework
Review the direct and indirect human, ecological and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
Explain the general mechanisms of toxicity in eliciting a toxic response
Examine how micro systems have influenced public health policy and vice versa.
o More than two independent samples continuous/cat/ordinal (Move to 4)
o Experimental studies
o Application: design, theory, statistics (move to 4)
Produce a literature review of a disease, utilizing a public health perspective on multiple systems levels, with references, citations, and adapted sources in APA style.
- Major Topics: Module 1: Intro to the Systems Thinking:
Module 2: Underwater Level: Biology and Public Health
Module 3: Intrapersonal Systems Level: Health Behavior and Motivation
Module 4: Micro Systems Level: Our Environment
- Textbooks: Essentials of Public Health Series including: Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Health Policy, and Epidemiology
Behavioral Theory in Health Promotion Practice and Research
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases:
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: 1. Pre-class assessment: 25@ 5 pts each=125 pts
2. In-class participation: 25@ 5 pts each=125 pts
3. Post-class assessment: 15@ 20 pts each=300 pts
4. Communication assessment: 15@ 10 pts each=150 pts
5. Literature Review: 1@ 75 points
6. Final Exam: 1@ 75 points
7. Mid-course evaluation: 1@ 10 points
8. Final course evaluation: 1 @ 10 points
Total points: 870 pts
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: 1. Pre-class assessment: 25@ 5 pts each=125 pts
2. In-class participation: 25@ 5 pts each=125 pts
3. Post-class assessment: 15@ 20 pts each=300 pts
4. Communication assessment: 15@ 10 pts each=150 pts
5. Literature Review: 1@ 75 points
6. Final Exam: 1@ 75 points
7. Mid-course evaluation: 1@ 10 points
8. Final course evaluation: 1 @ 10 points
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http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
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- Policy on Make-up Work: Academic Dishonesty And Disruption Of Academic Process
Students attending USF are awarded degrees in recognition of successful completion of coursework in their chosen fields of study. Each individual is expected to earn his/her degree on the basis of personal effort. Consequently, any form of cheating on examinations or plagiarism on assigned papers constitutes unacceptable deceit and dishonesty. Disruption of the classroom or teaching environment is also unacceptable. This cannot be tolerated in the University community and will be punishable, according to the seriousness of the offense, in conformity with this rule.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as literary theft and consists of the unattributed quotation of the exact words of a published text, or the unattributed borrowing of original ideas by paraphrase from a published text. On written papers for which the student employs information gathered from books, articles, web sites, or oral sources, each direct quotation, as well as ideas and facts that are not generally known to the public at large, or the form, structure, or style of a secondary source must be attributed to its author by means of the appropriate citation procedure. Only widely known facts and first-hand thoughts and observations original to the student do not require citations. Citations may be made in footnotes or within the body of the text. Plagiarism also consists of passing off as ones own segments or the total of another persons work.
- Program This Course Supports: MPH
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