Emphasis is given to the role of vitamins and minerals in maintaining or achieving nutritional health. Concepts of diet related to health and disease are stressed throughout the course. This course presents issues associated with the health of the population. Topics include health administration, health laws and regulations, the health care delivery system, health care financing, occupational and mental health issues, and the major causes of mortality within the U.S. population. This course presents the taxonomy, ultrastructure, and morphology of bacteria and addresses the pathogenicity and clinically related findings associated with bacterial diseases.
Laboratory exercises complement and supplement lecture topics.
This course presents the biology of viruses, fungi, protozoans, and metazoans as they relate to clinically important diseases. This course presents the basic principles of epidemiology and statistical evaluation of the impact of microbial diseases upon population health within the U.S. and the world. Emphasis is given to application of the concepts to AIDS as a public health issue. Specific control measures that are utilized to prevent the communicability of microbial pathogens, such as immunization, food storage, sewage and water treatment, are also presented. This course presents the basic concepts of the body s immune system.