PRINCIPLES OF POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate basic understanding and application of principles of Population Health Sciences in characterizing the multiple determinants of health and the optimal allocation of resources across those determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of disparities Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate basic understanding and application, at a basic level, of the principles of microeconomic theory relating to human and institutional decisions in the allocation of scarce resources for the production of health at individual, system and population levels Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate basic understanding of the role of socioeconomic status, behavior, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate basic understanding of the historical and current financing and provision of health care services in the United States and its shaping by the political and policy processes Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate basic understanding and application of the principles of health measurement and its role in the design of health services, policy, intervention and evaluation Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate basic understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate basic understanding and application of principles of Population Health Sciences in characterizing the multiple determinants of health and the optimal allocation of resources across those determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of disparities Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate basic understanding and application, at a basic level, of the principles of microeconomic theory relating to human and institutional decisions in the allocation of scarce resources for the production of health at individual, system and population levels Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate basic understanding of the role of socioeconomic status, behavior, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate basic understanding of the historical and current financing and provision of health care services in the United States and its shaping by the political and policy processes Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate basic understanding and application of the principles of health measurement and its role in the design of health services, policy, intervention and evaluation Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate basic understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination Audience: Graduate