| Course ID: | HPAM(INTL) 8615E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Politics of Disease Control |
Course
Description: | Students develop tools for identifying and explaining the roles
that political institutions and actors play in controlling
disease. Through a detailed exploration of contemporary and
historical examples, students will be able to articulate the
systematic impact of politics on attempts to control disease
around the globe. |
| Oasis Title: | Politics of Disease Control |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HPAM 8615 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | - Evaluate the policy process for improving the health status
of populations
- Analyze the influence of core concepts from the field of
social choice on public health outcomes
- Analyze the impact of politics on disease control efforts
with reference to concepts of causal inference
- Evaluate a wide array of examples of global health
interventions
- Explain methods of ensuring community health safety and
preparedness
- Create an original research plan to study a contemporary
example of disease control |
| Topical Outline: | On social science and model building
Public goods and collective action
Vaccination today
Vaccination in the past
Smallpox eradication
Waterborne disease
Air pollution
Environmental health
HIV in the United States
HIV around the world (focus on South Africa and Brazil)
Malaria in the United States South
Malaria eradication |
| Honor Code Reference: | All students are responsible for maintaining the highest
standards of honesty and integrity in every phase of their
academic careers. The penalties for academic dishonesty are
severe and ignorance is not an acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without
plagiarizing, cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving
assistance from any other person, or using any source of
information that is not common knowledge. |