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  • HLTH 3000: Health Concepts of Death and Dying

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines information and data pertaining to death in the United States. Discusses historical and cultural perspectives of death, causes of death, definitions of death, stages of dying, bereavement, the will to live, legal and ethical issues, euthanasia, and suicide. Focuses on attitudes and values of Americans concerning death. Studies ways to work with and relate to dying individuals and their families. Will also be offered summer of odd years.
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  • HLTH 3200: Principles of Community Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. For students in health and behavioral sciences who wish to work in community health settings. Presents the role and function of various community health services and agencies and how they interface. Examines health care models and agencies, health care reform, health objectives for the nation, and health planning and promotion. Explores life style risk reduction, environmental issues, ethical health issues, and other appropriate topics.
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  • HLTH 3260: Health Behavior Theory and Practice

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Introduces the contribution of various academic fields to the development of historical and contemporary health and behavior change theories and models. Discusses historical contributions of various behaviorists. Examines the role of behaviorist, cognitive, humanistic, and social psychology approaches to behavior change. Applies constructs from individual, social/environmental, and multilevel health theories. Contrasts attractions and critiques of various models and theories. Discusses anthropologic, social normative, political, and communication approaches to behavior change. Applies health behavior theory to assessment, intervention, and evaluation strategies for personal health behavior change.
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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 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 3500G: International Health

    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 for Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Provides 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): MATH 1050 or 1055 or STAT 1040 or 1045 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the use of statistics for research purposes in health-related fields. Teaches principles of probability and statistical inference. Covers descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency, variability, correlation, and various inferential techniques such as t-tests, analysis of variance, regression, post-hoc tests, and non-parametric statistical tests.
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  • HLTH 3800: Epidemiology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. 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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