Health care reform is often in the news, and everyone has an opinion on why the system is broken, how to fix it, who should have access to good medical care, under what circumstances, and what constitutes "good care." This online, multi-format course will consider what it has meant to be a good patient or a good doctor at various points in U.S. history, who was included or excluded in each group, how medicine became professionalized, and how people have organized around health issues.

This course will outline the history of epidemiology as a science and examine its wide-ranging contributions to the fields of public health, medicine, and the social sciences. This course will focus on epidemiological methods to investigate health outcomes and identify associated and causative factors of disease in populations.

This course applies and integrates the principles and tools of epidemiology to the study of cancer. The course includes discussions of the burden of various kinds of cancer across the United States and the world by age, gender, and race/ethnicity, the underlying biology behind the development of cancer in humans, cancer surveillance, and the epidemiology of various types of cancer by cancer site such as breast, lung, and colorectal cancers.

An overview of the physical factors that influence human health, including hazards from unsanitary water, polluted air, traumatic injury hazards, toxins, radiologic risks, and other features of the natural and human made environment that can kill, injure, maim, and cause disease in human populations. Special focus is given to understanding the relationships between biological, chemical, and other factors that produce unhealthy environments that sicken individuals throughout their lifespan.

CPH 330 focuses on applying methods for solving public health analytical problems. This course will build on the statistical principles and scientific reasoning introduced in introductory statistics courses, but will focus on the application of methods for categorical data analysis. Topics include data visualization, exploratory data analysis, summary statistics, statistical testing, estimation, confounding, and the use of regression models commonly encountered in public health. An emphasis on data analytic methods will also introduce students to the use of statistical software.

This upper division course introduces students to U.S. health system and its public health and health care components. The course explores the history of these systems in the U.S., their current status in terms of financing and law, and the role of health policy in system change. The course begins with an overview of the U.S. health care system and a comparison to other systems around the world. We then explore the history of the U.S. system, in terms of its public health and health care components, and its current state, including recent developments in both public health and health care.

Students enrolled in this course will participate in in-depth analyses of multiple large-scale disasters. This course will provide students with the knowledge necessary to participate in all phases of the crisis management process, as overseen by a health service organization. Case studies will be utilized heavily throughout this course and students will have the opportunity to engage in discussion with various health professionals from around Kentucky who engage in crisis management activities.

This course provides focused coverage within domains of public health, including: Health Behavior; Epidemiology; Gerontology; Environmental Health; Health Services Management, and Biostatistics. A central goal of these special topics courses is to provide a public health context to material in a way that promotes applicability to undergraduate majors university-wide.

This course provides focused coverage within domains of public health, including: Health Behavior; Epidemiology; Gerontology; Environmental Health; Health Services Management, and Biostatistics. A central goal of these special topics courses is to provide a public health context to material in a way that promotes applicability to undergraduate majors university-wide.

This course provides focused coverage within domains of public health, including: Health Behavior; Epidemiology; Gerontology; Environmental Health; Health Services Management, and Biostatistics. A central goal of these special topics courses is to provide a public health context to material in a way that promotes applicability to undergraduate majors university-wide.