Graduate School of Nursing Public Health Courses
This course is a comprehensive analysis of the healthcare delivery system. Components studies include: local, state, and federal direct care regulatory agencies; nonprofit organizations promoting health and/or providing services; health planning and coordinating bodies at various levels; accrediting agencies for healthcare facilities; and organizations representing healthcare consumers. Formal, informal, financial, and political relationships between and among these components are highlighted. Regional patterns of healthcare delivery as well as trends, problems, and potential solutions are examined. Consideration of differences between the U.S. system and the systems in other regions of the world are also discussed.
Lectures and laboratory exercises acquaint the student with the basic concepts of biostatistics and their applications and interpretations in public health. Topics include descriptive statistics, graphics, diagnostic tests, probability distributions, reference, and tests of significance, association, linear and logistic regression, life tables, and survival analysis.
General core course provided for Master's of Public Health (MPH) students introducing concepts, strategies and perspectives of epidemiology to be used in public health practice and administration. Prerequisites: MPH 611, MPH 612.
This core course provides a practical introduction to the contribution of social and behavioral sciences to the distribution, etiology and solution of public health problems. The methods and theories used for interventions to promote health in individuals, groups and communities will be examined including their application in creating, communicating and advocating for social change. Prerequisites: MPH 611, MPH 612 Corequisite: MPH 621.
This course serves to support developing, entry-level competencies in public health administration. Topics include leadership, mission and goal definition, health data management, communication in public health, management of of public health services, financial management and budgeting, quality improvement, outcomes assessment, strategic planning and marketing, health education, and other emerging topics necessary for the effective delivery of public health services.
This course is designed to introduce the student to a wide range of issues where human health is related to the environment. Public health issues related to air, water, food, and soil will be examined. Occupational health issues and the unique exposures that workers will be explored. The basic framework for enviironmental and occupational policies in the U.S. will be reviewed.
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the ethical, political and legal dimensiions to promoting and protecting the public's health. Examines the fundamental relationship of public health with social justice and the roles of public policy and law in promoting public health.
Principles of formal program planning, evaluation and research methods in health care. Topics include the nature of evaluation, formulation of hypotheses, the role of evaluation in the program life cycle, evaluation research designs, the application of particular designs to selected problems in health care, relationship of statistical processes to specific evaluation designs, sampling, culturally appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methods, data collection and analysis and interpretation of findings.
Students undertake an individually defined experience of 300 hours related to heir identified MPH concentration. This internship culminates in a self-assessment on all of the MPH program competencies.
Serves as a culminating synthesis experience in which students are expected to apply knowledge gained from their graduate experience. The course is designed to provide a final experience in which students demonstrate mastery of content and allow an opportunity for closure and connection between courses. The purpose of this capstone course is to facilitate the integration and synthesis of content through critical thinking; it is also a turning point for the student from education to professional practice.
This course will address disparities and sociocultural barriers to mental health issues in the community and how this population is treated. It will also focus on the development and application of cultural competence in public mental health practice.
This course addresses the intersection of sexual behavior, sexuality, public health, and human rights. Also addresed are issues related to sexual health and health policy. The scope of the subject matter will range from an analysis of local San Francisco policies to issues of global sexual health concern.
This course is designed to build on the MPH graduate student's knowledge of basic statistical techniques used in public health research. The focus of this course will be in using and applying associated statistical software packages to analyze data. Survey data will also be discussed.
This introductory course provides an overview of the field of global health with a focus on the least developed countries. The student will gain an understanding of the distribution of the global disease burden and how it is measured, the key players in global health, the need for a multispectral approach to global health problems, and an understanding of the characteristics of successful health interventions.
This will be a survey course on the public health implications of agricultural processes; farm policies; food safety; food distribution and equity (including government sponsored nutrition programs); and emerging issues in food and agriculture.
Provides a macrosystems approach and an overview of health economics as it relates to public health. Course materials will touch on some fundamental components of the field and most importantly, demonstrate why economics is inseparable from public health.
This course allows students to plan, create, demonstrate and document mobile applications that address specified public health needs. Students will develop prototypes or final products using mobile application development software. Principles of planning, evidence-based design and evaluation are emphasized. The course reinforces the importance of writing skills for professional dissemination and for documentation of public health mobile application technology.
Students will acquire skills for their public health "tool box" which will include the basic elements of organizing and the specific skills of how to convene a focus group, facilitate meetings, give testimony, identify and develop true community partnerships, work with the media, (including convene a press conference), and do research with grassroots communities in a collaborative and respectful manner.
This elective course will prepare students working in health care to respond with sensitivity to the needs and preferences that culturally and linguistically diverse patients/consumers bring to the health encounter. Students will learn strategies to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS), so that access to care, to quality of care, and, ultimately, health outcomes may be improved.
This elective clinical course affords the opportunity to apply knowledge and understanding of the impact of socioeconomic and political influences on the health and well-being of individuals and communities in a "low resource setting". Students will participate in an immersion learning program in which they will live and work in a culture different from their own. Students will experience first hand the challenges or providing high quality, cultural competent health care in clinical environments with sub optimum resources. Linquisitic preparation that will begin in prerequisite course will continue during the immersion through structured lessons in the language of the specific geographical area.
