Health Sciences (BAS)

Legal doctrines provide protection of consumers, health care providers, and health care institutions with regard to health care delivery including access and cost. Provides an overview of the legal obligation and rights of private and public stakeholders in the delivery and receipt of health care services.

Approaches violence from a public health perspective, using the Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, as a benchmark. Applies an interprofessional approach to violence, to include medicine, nursing, law, law enforcement, social work, psychology, economics and education, among others. Discusses principles of epidemiology, underlying etiologies and sequelae and evidence-based strategies for prevention throughout the course.

Evaluates the major components of complementary and alternative health care models and evidenced-based recommendations related to complementary health care.

Presents an overview of population health and its management. Emphasizes a solutions-based perspective within the legal and social context of the United States using epidemiological methods.

Focuses on communicating topics related to health through an examination of theoretical frameworks, communication techniques, and different technologies including eheatlh and mhealth. Addresses communication through channels that promote the health of individuals and communities. Topics may include clinician to client communication, peer to peer communication, health literacy, health in the media, and effective public health communication.

Focuses on community and national policies and programs that affect the health of older adults, programs to improve access to health care as well as to improve overall health, issues related to family and professional caregiving, and future challenges related to caring for older adults.

Explains individual and population-level health outcomes and behaviors based on various health theories and models. Applies health theories to inform clinical outcomes by exploring different influences on behavior: individual, interpersonal, community, systems and policies. Provides an in-depth look at how health is shaped from social and cognitive constructs.

Focuses on health issues that primarily affect adults ages 50 years and over as related to nutrition, physical activity, environmental toxins. Focuses on exploring those factors known to promote healthy aging.

History of medicine in the modern world and its relationship to contemporary issues in medicine with emphasis on the broader context of ways in which technology, personalized medicine, genomics, ethical issues and shared decision making between patients and providers have evolved.

Examines health care delivery systems internationally and explores contemporary issues affecting the institutions that provide health care and the people who seek health services. Covers the historical development of international health care systems, the organization and financing of systems of care, and the policy process and priority setting. Also covers current efforts at health care reform. Provides students with the necessary professional skills to be effective participants in efforts to evaluate and improve the delivery of health care nationally and internationally.

Integrates the theory and practice of ethics within health-related disciplines and the application of bioethics by health science professionals, including health disparities.

Examines social needs at the individual and population levels, including social drivers of health (social determinants of health, or SDoH) and health-related social needs. Explores collective decisions that influence the health and well-being of individuals and communities (e.g., early life and stress, education, employment, culture, policy, built-in food environments, healthcare access and socioeconomic status).

Leadership, leadership theory and inter-professionalism in practice. Applies didactic content to case studies and activities designed to promote critical thinking and effective teamwork. Solidifies concepts through the use of assignments, exams and discussions.

Covers health care systems in the United States with an emphasis on historical development through governance and civic engagement. Evaluates health care delivery and financing through a decision-making framework, while exploring social determinants of health through the lens of cost, quality and access to care.

Designed to empower students with tools necessary to decode, assess and leverage peer-reviewed evidence across domains. Emphasizes a blended theoretical and practical research approach that transcends academia and resonates with the individual and societal well-being.