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The following courses are offered by the School of Public Health: Courses offered by the School of Public Health Effective Public Health Negotiations: Principles, Processes and Practices PH 298.025 The ability to secure enduring agreements is an essential skill for a successful public health leader or manager. This elective course integrates both lecture and experiential components in order to expose students to the major theories and specific tactics that underlie effective negotiating. It will also offer repeated opportunity to practice to develop the skills needed and to build awareness of personal styles. Given the complexities of the health care environment, negotiation exercises will include both health care and non-health care situations. Non health care negotiations will focus on practical situations that all management professionals face (e.g. salary negotiations). Students will be evaluated on their understanding of relevant theory and their ability to apply it across several individual and team negotiations. The negotiations course is a must take for students of any discipline, especially public health. It provided valuable tools, such as tips, tricks, and critical thinking skills that will be helpful to students as they navigate the professional world. These tools are applicable to everything from salary negotiations to budget decision making to the interplay between hospitals, insurance plans, and providers - all areas which students of public health will encounter. Public Health Interventions: Theory, Practice, and Research PH 201E / Spring This course focuses on the primary factors that affect health and the interventions that can promote health. Students examine the determinants of health and the theory, history, types, ethics, and approaches of public health interventions. Community level interventions and multidisciplinary approaches receive special emphasis. The course stresses a rigorous critique of the outcomes of interventions and practical ways to improve them. Students take an active role in the design and conduct of the course. Community Organizing and Community Building for Health PH 204D / Fall This course emphasizes community organizing and community building as major approaches to creating healthy communities and fostering broader social change. It further examines the role of public health practitioners as change agents, stressing in particular the values and ethical issues that arise within the context of diverse and multicultural communities. Both advancement of theoretical knowledge and the development of skills in applying such knowledge in the areas of community organizing and community building will be stressed. This is a Service Learning Course, and students wishing to undertake a concurrent field project can earn an additional optional unit of credit. Multicultural Competence in Public Health PH 204E / Fall This class will focus on developing a functional understanding of cultural competence and will initiate the student in developing culturally competent tools. Understanding the basic assumptions of the public health system, discovering one's own cultural biases, and learning an approach which values diversity as well as respects cultural issues related to approach and process. Will enable the student to be more effective as a public health practioner. This course will achieve these goals through a combined approach of lecture, discussion, and class presentations of a case study. Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services PH 223C / Spring The overall purpose of this course is to assist the student in managing health care organizations from a strategic perspective. This is accomplished by systematically addressing system-wide, organization-wide, group- and individual-level issues in strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance. Emphasis is placed upon the manager's role in simultaneously taking into account a wide variety of internal and external factors to improve organization and system performance in meeting the health needs of individuals and communities. Emphasis is also placed on the development and implementation of strategies to meet multiple stakeholder demands, with particular attention given to continuous quality improvement/total quality management approaches. The course will cover a wide variety of health care organizations including physician group practices, health systems, hospitals, HMOs, suppliers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The course builds on Business Administration 205: Organizational Behavior and 223A: Medical Care Organization. Information Systems in Public Health PH 243C / Spring An introduction to new information systems, such as the Internet and interactive television, and how they may be used to improve human health. The course has three objectives: first, to familiarize students with new information technologies; second, to review how these technologies will be used by public health professionals, consumers, health care providers, and others; and third, to study related ethical and legal issues such as privacy, access, and liability. The course is designed for people with minimal understanding of interactive technologies. |
