Catalog 2020-2021 
    
    May 18, 2024  
Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PUBH 330 Public Health Leadership and Management

5 credits
This course presents core concepts of public health structure and leadership, including organizational design as it relates to workplace diversity, managing versus leading professionals, and overall system function.

Prerequisites: BHAV 311  or PUBH 301  

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Analyze the characteristics needed by a leader in the public health field
  • Outline organizational strategic plans and collaborate in developing a vision for a healthy community
  • Examine internal and external facilitators and barriers that affect the delivery of the 10 Essential Public Health Services
  • Analyze the impact of change within healthcare organizations and the role of the leader/manager in this change process
  • Explain how public health, health care, and other organizations can work together or individually to impact the health of a community
  • Explain public health and health care funding mechanisms and procedures
  • Evaluate financial analysis methods used in making decisions about policies, programs, and services

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:

  • Apply the fundamental principles of public health to individual, community, and population health issues to study disease incidence and prevalence
  • Investigate concepts in public health ethics and healthcare leadership and management, including the right to health care, public health research/bioethics, social justice, economic impacts, conflict between autonomy and health promotion strategies, and public health theory and practice

Global Outcomes
This course teaches to the global outcome of teamwork.

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50