Related Courses
SPH-H 504 Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy (3 cr.)
This course focuses on breastfeeding practice and policy. Strategies for planning program design to improve breastfeeding practices along with different interventions for supporting breastfeeding in the community are discussed. World Health Organization (WHO) policies and recommendations on breastfeeding practice are also highlighted.
SPH-H 522 Promoting Women’s Health (3 cr.)
Examines the relationships of women to health and health care, with attention to health concerns unique to women and common to both sexes throughout the life span. Emphasizes current information related to women's health issues and the health educator's role in women's health.
SPH- H650 Foundational Issues in Maternal and Child Health (3 cr.)
This course is designed to train Maternal and Child Health (MCH) leaders to acquire knowledge, important skills in technology, and professional competence that will enable them to assess and deal with MCH-related needs and issues. The course is divided into four sections:
- U.S. public health systems, policies, and programs, including Title V.
- Critical analysis of health disparities in the health care system and strategies and resources needed to combat morbidity and mortality.
- Health problems (physical, social, and environmental) faced by women and children across the lifespan.
- Assessment and evaluation of MCH core competencies, especially cultural/linguistic competence, that are needed in leadership development.
SPH-H750 Violence Against Women (3 cr.)
This graduate class is open to Masters and Doctoral students in public health and across university departments. The course reviews ways in which violence against women, or gender-based violence, influences women’s health across the life course and is designed to meet the content requirements of the new Maternal and Child Health concentration within the School of Public Health. Violence takes many forms from female-selected infanticide to intimate partner violence and femicide. Victims of gender-based violence are usually not random but often emanated from vulnerable populations. Violence imposes a serious health burden on women’s reproductive health, contributing to low birth-weight, maternal mortality during childbirth; on physical and sexual health, and on mental health sometimes extending for many years past the events. Although the expression of abuse and its impact on women’s health may vary across cultures, there are few societies that can claim immunity.