USP 144. Environmental and Preventive Health Issues (4 units)
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Description
This course will analyze needs of populations, highlighting current major public health problems such as chronic and communicable diseases, environmental hazards of diseases, psychiatric problems and additional diseases, new social mores affecting health maintenance, consumer health awareness and health practices, special needs of economically and socially disadvantaged populations. The focus is on selected areas of public and environmental health, namely: epidemiology, preventive services in family health, communicable and chronic disease control, and occupational health. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite courses
USP 144 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have USP 144 as a prerequisite.