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May 09, 2024
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2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1
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PAS 5242 Public Health
Lecture: 2 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 2
This course provides students with an overview of the basic concepts of public health and preventative medicine. Public health concepts include distribution, prevalence, causation, mode of transmission, dissemination, control, and preventative countermeasures of infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as environmental, occupational, behavioral, and chronic conditions. PA students will be introduced to research methodologies related to the study of disease and investigate epidemiological trends across a variety of cultures. Attention will be paid to professional responsibility, confidentiality, informed patient consent, and issues of patient welfare.
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