Population Health in the Community

This course focuses on the examination of population health indicators and outcomes and their relationship with health care delivery systems and health care inequities. Students analyze and evaluate environmental health, epidemiology, behavioral health, health care regulations, emergency preparedness, infectious disease, public health policy, and health economics. Students utilize systems-thinking and create holistic nursing interventions that focus on population health. Prerequisites: 512, 538, 539, 660. Must be taken concurrently with 528.