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May 05, 2024
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Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PUBH 430 Health Policy, Equity, and Justice5 credits
This course covers the policy process and enhancing students’ ability to influence that process. Students will examine the role of policy, power, race, class, and privilege in producing health disparities and inequities. Students develop the knowledge, awareness, and skills necessary to serve vulnerable, marginalized and underserved populations and influence policies that affect health status at both the individual and population levels.
Prerequisites: Admission to the BAS in Public Health or the BAS in Behavioral Healthcare program
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Summarize how public health policies are created locally, statewide, and nationally
- Summarize how advocates can influence public health policies locally, statewide, and nationally
- Support the need for the use of evidence in developing policies, programs, services
- Analyze the influence of population diversity on programs, policies, and services
- Address population diversity when implementing policies, programs, and services that affect the health of a community
- Evaluate the effects of policies, programs, and services on different populations in a community
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
- Explain the impact of health disparities as related to health behavior and outcomes, intervention strategies, public health policy, and healthcare access and quality
Global Outcomes
This course teaches to the global outcome of intercultural appreciation.
Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50
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