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  • HLTH 3300: Health Promotion for Older Adults

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. For students in health and behavioral sciences and other related fields who wish to work in gerontological settings. Examines health issues and problems of older adults. Addresses topics affecting older adults including: the aging process, chronic and infectious diseases, health care resources, and health promotion. Covers medication issues, long-term care, death and dying, and other related topics.
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  • HLTH 3400: Human Diseases

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ZOOL 1090 and University Advanced Standing. For students interested in a Community Health option within the Integrated Studies Degree. Also for students interested or working in health care fields such as nursing, dental hygiene, etc. Introduces the study of human disease including general principles of disease and major diseases of body systems and organs. Applies genetic, behavioral and environmental issues to the study of human diseases.
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  • HLTH 3450: Public Health and the Environment

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): HLTH 3200, University Advanced Standing. Examines the relationship of people to their environment as well as public health environmental issues. Develops an understanding of the causes of those issues, and possible future approaches to control major environmental public health problems. Includes environmental epidemiology, public health policy and regulation, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, toxic materials, radiation, water quality, air quality, food safety, solid and liquid wastes, occupational health, injuries, and emerging global environmental public health problems.
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  • HLTH 350G: International Health GI

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Provides knowledge regarding the various health issues that affect people around the world. Focuses on the role of culture, ethnicity, country of origin, politics, and gender on health. Examines the importance of cultural sensitivity and competence when attempting to eradicate public health concerns. Will also be offered summer of even years.
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  • HLTH 3600: Social Marketing

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Identifies how to promote social changes to the consumer. Teaches packaging, positioning and framing of programs to appeal to more salient, powerful, and influential core values: freedom, independence, autonomy, control, fairness, democracy, and free enterprise. Discusses marketing principles, planning, implementing, and evaluation of public health programs, strategic planning, social change theory, and case studies.
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  • HLTH 3700: Grant Writing WE

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing and matriculation into BS Public Health or BS School Health Education. Provides students with the needed knowledge and skills for public health grant writing. Teaches the major elements of grant writing including the identification of grant sources, writing grant proposals, and preparation of budgets and timelines.
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  • HLTH 3750: Biostatistics for Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into Community Health BS, School Health BS, or Nursing BS program; University Advanced Standing; and completion of MATH 1050 or 1055 or STAT 1040 or 1045. Introduces use of statistics for research purposes in the fields of public and community health. Teaches descriptive and inferential statistics. Includes central tendency, variability, correlation and regression, probability, and various inferential techniques such as t-test for independent and dependent samples, one-way and two-way analysis of variance, post-hoc tests, and non-parametric statistical tests.
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  • HLTH 3800: Epidemiology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): HLTH 3400, University Advanced Standing, and matriculation into BS Community Health or BS School Health Education. Introduces epidemiologic principles and methods. Examines the historical and theoretical bases of epidemiology; statistical methods; distribution of disease over person, place, and time; research methods utilized in epidemiology; and the application of epidemiology to the prevention of disease and the promotion of health.
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  • HLTH 4100: Health Education Curriculum for Secondary Teachers

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing and matriculation into the BS School Health program. For secondary education majors. Emphasizes the role of the teacher as a health educator and team member in providing a healthy school environment. Examines comprehensive school health education and studies the basic Utah health core curriculum for secondary education. Develops learning activities applicable to the health needs of secondary education students.. Course fee of $10 for materials applies.
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  • HLTH 4140: Assessment and Program Development WE

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): HLTH 3200, HLTH 3220, University Advanced Standing, and matriculation into the BS Public Health. Intended for Public Health majors. Covers building a rationale, gaining support of stakeholders, selecting an appropriate model or theory, conducting a needs assessment, developing goals and objectives, and determining appropriate public health education strategies. Helps students develop the skills to successfully begin the program planning process.
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