Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health
The course is designed to help students develop basic literacy regarding social concepts and processes that influence health status and public health interventions. The course also hopes to help students develop insight into populations with whom they have worked in the past or will work in the future, and to develop one kind of effective writing tool (the narrative) for communicating about psychosocial issues in public health. These overall aims are approached through lectures, discussion, read
Personal Preparedness Planning For Public Health Workers
Public health workers need to understand and implement basic concepts of personal preparedness planning so that they can function effectively as public health emergency responders in a post-9/11 world. These basic preparedness strategies can be applied to meet a broad range of public health emergency response challenges, including - but not limited to - acts of terrorism. Personal Preparedness Planning provides a practical introduction to these concepts that is tailored to the needs of public he
Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Public Health
This training examines the path of the avian influenza and examines how it could impact world health.
Public Health Biology
Offers an integrative molecular and biological perspective on public health problems. Explores population biology and ecological principles underlying public health and reviews molecular biology in relation to public health biology. Modules focus on specific diseases of viral, bacterial, and environmental origin. Uses specific examples of each type to develop the general principles that govern interactions among susceptible organisms and etiologic agents. Devotes special attention to factors tha
Ethical Issues in Public Health
Lectures and small group discussions focus on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy, including resource allocation, the use of summary measures of health, the right to health care, and conflicts between autonomy and health promotion efforts. Student evaluation based on class participation, a group project, and a paper evaluating ethical issues in the student's area of public health specialization.
The History of Public Health
In the History of Public Health we will examine the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective. This material seeks to reveal how the organization of societies facilitates or mitigates the production and transmission of disease. It also asks how do populations and groups of individuals go about securing their health? One key theme is the medical management of space in one form or another - from the public space of the environment through institutional spaces such a
Brady on Health Care Reform, Public Opinion, and Party Politics
David Brady of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about American public opinion on changing the health care system. Brady discusses the impact of taxation on public opinion toward health care reform--if the poll includes a measure of the likely increase in taxes necessary to pay for expanding coverage, support for expanding coverage drops dramatically compared to generic polls that ignore costs. He also discusses the role of the party system and partisanship for the health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty Interviews
In these interviews, JHSPH faculty deliver expert insight into some of the most important public health challenges facing the world today.
Health Effects of Coffee -- Conversations in Public Health
Rob van Dam on the health effects of coffee.
Polio Eradication -- Conversations in Public Health
Kimberly Thompson discusses polio eradication
Hospital Rankings -- Conversations in Public Health
Ashish Jha on Hospital Rankings
Environmental Chemicals and Children -- Conversations in Public Health
Philippe Grandjean on Environmental Chemicals and Children
Genetics and Breast Cancer -- Conversations in Public Health
David Hunter on Genetics and Breast Cancer
Links Between Emotion and Disease -- Conversations in Public Health
Laura Kubzansky on the Links Between Emotion and Disease
Health Courts -- Conversations in Public Health
Michelle Mello on Health Courts
Personal Genetic Profiling -- Conversations in Public Health
David Hunter on Personal Genetic Profiling
Trends in Health Disparities -- Conversations in Public Health
Nancy Krieger on Trends in Health Disparities
The Kidney Market -- Conversations in Public Health
Daniel Wikler discusses the Kidney Market
Premature Death--Conversations on Public Health
Rob van Dam on healthy lifestyles and premature mortality
