Introduction to Population Health Sciences

3 credits · Graduate

This course introduces students to population health, the distribution of health within and between populations across the lifespan and over time; understood through health determinants, disparities, and outcomes as well as healthcare access, cost, and quality. The course explores the who and how of population health sciences, which aims to intervene at multiple levels to improve population health. Within population health sciences, attention will be paid in the course to preliminary research considerations (e.g., ethics, searching the literature, critical appraisal, theories/models/frameworks), research questions, and approaches (i.e., quantitative and particularly qualitative and mixed methods).