The course emphasizes methods of needs assessment and data analysis, program design, process and impact evaluation, and strategies for implementation. Students are expected to design a project proposal. Explores the dynamics of chemical dependency, including the psychological, physiological, and spiritual bases of addiction, and intervention modalities. Students are expected to observe or participate in an addiction intervention program. This course examines the etiology and development of major lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, obesity, nutritional disorders, and selected infectious diseases.
Emphasis is on identifying risk factors and examination of successful risk-reduction programs.
Selected topics in the area of family health, including women's issues, aging, migration, etc. Special topics in public health promotion and education are reviewed. Specialists with expertise in critical areas will be invited to make presentations. Students are expected to choose a current public health topic, research the topic, and make presentations in class. The individual student pursues a topic of interest under the guidance of a faculty member.