Proseminar in Community Health Sciences. Analysis of current key literature from behavioral sciences, maternal and child health, gerontology, general and miscellaneous fields of community health sciences. Foundations of Public Health Inquiry. Examination of research paradigms, precepts of theory development, literature synthesis, and ethical principles, all enhance the scholarliness and meaningfulness of doctoral students' public health inquiry. Examination of nutritional epidemiological techniques to the design of population-based nutrition research.
Students complete research proposal using nutritional assessment, epidemiology and research skills.
Socio-Economic Aspects of Family Planning. The social and economic determinants of population and family planning, projections to the future and trends in contraceptive use in both developed and developing countries. Dying, Grief and Hospice. Critical Issues in Long Term Care Policy. Same as HPA 527.