NURS 806 Population Health

This course prepares the student to implement specialty population-based disease prevention and health promotion activities to achieve national and global goals of improving worldwide health. Focus will be on issues affecting health outcomes including patient safety, emerging infectious diseases, disaster preparedness, disparities in health and health care services, and the impact of personal behaviors and lifestyle choices. Additional emphasis will be on the use of scientific approaches to analyze population data to better understand determinants of health and illness.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None

Offered

Summer