PUBH 280 Global Health

This course is designed to introduce students to: 1) current and emergent issues that affect the health of the global population, 2) indicators and tools used to assess population health, and 3) measures taken to address the burden of disease. The far-reaching goal of this course is to provide resources and information to motivate citizens to take action toward ensuring equitable global health care.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Outline the basic tools used to assess the health situation to determine health priorities of a country.
2. Describe economic, social, cultural, and community development issues that affect the health populations in different countries.
3. Describe the basic epidemiologic and demographic principles in relation to community health and economic stability of different countries.
4. Examine the relationship between population growth in different countries and its impact on health issues from economic, political, environmental, social, and/or ethical perspectives.
5. Describe the factors that promote infection, parasitism, and/or clinical disease, and methods for controlling these factors.
6. Discuss the integral relationship between health and the multiple culinary-based perspective of human rights.
7. Explore the roles of major organizations in global health.
8. Discuss the concept of nutritional transition and examine the resulting disease of over-and-under nutrition.
9. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration through researching current global health issues and evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of those sources.
10. Demonstrate the ethical and discipline-specific use of information while researching global health issues.

Course Objectives

1. Outline the basic tools used to assess the health situation to determine health priorities of a country.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • exam, assignment, and/or quiz

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • exam, assignment, and/or quiz
2. Describe economic, social, cultural, and community development issues that affect the health populations in different countries.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exam

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC2
3. Describe the basic epidemiologic and demographic principles in relation to community health and economic stability of different countries.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exam

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC1
4. Examine the relationship between population growth in different countries and its impact on health issues from economic, political, environmental, social, and/or ethical perspectives.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exam

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC4
5. Describe the factors that promote infection, parasitism, and/or clinical disease, and methods for controlling these factors.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

6. Discuss the integral relationship between health and the multiple culinary-based perspective of human rights.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Exams

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Global Competency Rubric

   Global Competency

   • GC3
7. Explore the roles of major organizations in global health.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • exam, assignment, and/or quiz

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • exam, assignment, and/or quiz
8. Discuss the concept of nutritional transition and examine the resulting disease of over-and-under nutrition.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • exam, assignment, and/or quiz
9. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration through researching current global health issues and evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of those sources.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL1
   • IL2
10. Demonstrate the ethical and discipline-specific use of information while researching global health issues.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Writing Assignments

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Information Literacy Rubric

    Information Literacy

    • IL3