Year/Quarter: 20263
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Epidemiology/Critical Evidence Appraisal
Basic knowledge about methods used in epidemiology and their application to critical appraisal of clinical, epidemiological, and health administration literature for evidence-based management of healthcare organizations, improvement of delivery of health services, and for creating health policies.
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Public Health Integrative Learning Experience
Students create a culminating project for the Online Master of Public Health program, demonstrating extensive knowledge about a specific public health topic, synthesizing theory and knowledge acquired in prior coursework, the practicum, and other learning experiences. Students complete a project from start to finish and prepare a final report and an oral presentation. Prerequisite: enrollment…
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Program Seminars
Graduate seminars organized to address specific educational needs of students in various fellowships, residencies, and other specialized programs within the Department of Health Sciences (i.e., maternal and child health, international health, preventive medicine, social and behavioral sciences). Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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Public Health Leadership II: Systems Thinking for Public Health Leaders
Explores leadership and systems thinking to address complex public health issues. Prepares students to partner with a variety of stakeholders and participate in community-based coalitions. Students create problem statements and systems maps, apply an equity lens to solving public health issues, set programmatic goals, develop strategies to improve health, and discuss financing strategies for sustainable…
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Health Policy and the Public’s Health
Explores the factors that affect health policy and the interaction of policy, markets, and the legal system through public health examples. Examines how science and community values intertwine in policy development, and how context influences the structure of and changes to a nation’s health system.
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HIHIM 550 Health Care Information Governance
Covers the conceptualization, design, and management of data initiatives and knowledge needed by the healthcare enterprise. Reviews data integrity principles and guidelines to determine methodology for evaluation development and management of internal and external information requirements. Offered: W.
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Healthcare Databases and Applications
Provides an overview of data models, architecture platforms, and relational database theory and technology. Covers design and uses of databases in patient record systems, registries and indexes, and health databases, security, privacy and ethical issues, database design, data integrity, field properties, tables, reports, queries, and data retrieval. Offered: Sp.