POPULATION HEALTH THEORY AND METHODS SEMINAR I: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES & POPULATION HEALTH ETHICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: NURSING 702 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the unique perspectives, priorities, and conceptual frameworks and theories that guide advanced population health practice. Audience: Graduate 2. Contrast ethical deliberations within biomedical research or individual healthcare practice with ethical decision-making in population health. Audience: Graduate 3. Appraise the potential impacts, shortcomings, and ethical implications of typical approaches to population-level health promotion (health education, social marketing, clinical intervention, environmental or infrastructure changes, policy development and enforcement). Audience: Graduate 4. Examine the social, historical, economic, environmental, and political forces, as well as the biological and cognitive processes, that shape individual behaviors and health outcomes, as well as the health and well-being of populations. Audience: Graduate 5. Apply socioecological, physiological, behavioral, and developmental perspectives to select population health issues. Audience: Graduate 6. Critically consider individual characteristics, upstream determinants, and other drivers of select population health issues to identify areas of opportunity and propose ethical strategies to mitigate risk, address inequities, and promote health and well-being. Audience: Graduate 7. Discern common challenges to evidence-based practice and decision-making in population health. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the unique perspectives, priorities, and conceptual frameworks and theories that guide advanced population health practice. Audience: Graduate 2. Contrast ethical deliberations within biomedical research or individual healthcare practice with ethical decision-making in population health. Audience: Graduate 3. Appraise the potential impacts, shortcomings, and ethical implications of typical approaches to population-level health promotion (health education, social marketing, clinical intervention, environmental or infrastructure changes, policy development and enforcement). Audience: Graduate 4. Examine the social, historical, economic, environmental, and political forces, as well as the biological and cognitive processes, that shape individual behaviors and health outcomes, as well as the health and well-being of populations. Audience: Graduate 5. Apply socioecological, physiological, behavioral, and developmental perspectives to select population health issues. Audience: Graduate 6. Critically consider individual characteristics, upstream determinants, and other drivers of select population health issues to identify areas of opportunity and propose ethical strategies to mitigate risk, address inequities, and promote health and well-being. Audience: Graduate 7. Discern common challenges to evidence-based practice and decision-making in population health. Audience: Graduate