BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Business & Media

MODULE: Public Health

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 36 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

This program defines public health functions, practices, programs, and measures. It discusses the organization and infrastructure of a health system, the historical context and future challenges. It offers a complete description of core public health services, how public health services are delivered and how managed care affects public health.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Health Care Administration

Public Health

Academic Supervisor: Daniel Scott Janik

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Health Care Administration

This course explores the management processes and roles of public health professionals; health service organization; policy issues, resources utilization and control; human resources management; and public health trends. It discusses current issues affecting health and health care delivery.

Instructor: John Ogony Arudo

Public Health

This course deals with the philosophy, history, and principles of public health, the organization and structure of public health agencies, and the functions of public health services. It examines health promotion, disease prevention, the social, cultural and environmental factors that influence health, disease, and illness.

Instructor: John Ogony Arudo

International Health Systems

This course interprets health problems among various populations in multicultural settings. It compares health care systems in developing and industrialized countries in relation to other social systems; public/private component analyses; health care methods and finance. It also examines major health problems of underdeveloped, developing, and emerging nations.

Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik

Public Health Nutrition

This course reviews current issues and methods in assessing a community nutritional status, risk profiles; planning, implementing and evaluating nutrition programs and the effects in epidemiological studies and chronic disease.

Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik

Drinking Water & Health

This course examines the principles, requirements of public water supply for protection of public health. It includes essential characteristics of water quality and sources, water treatment and distribution systems with associated health hazards, epidemiology, risk assessment; surveillance, regulatory needs to assure safe public water supplies.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Women & Children Health Policy

This course gives an historical account of roles played by government and health policy development for mothers and children, family planning, maternal and infant health, preschool, school-age and adolescent health. It also address the biological mechanisms that underpin human reproduction, infertility, and contraception.

Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik

Gerontology Health Policy

This course explores biological, psychological, and social issues in aging, including cognitive change with age, and the social impact of increasingly older population demographics. It provides a multidisciplinary approach to the health-care needs of the elderly, including medication use, nutrition, health care agencies and roles of individual health care professionals.

Instructor: John Ogony Arudo

Infectious Diseases

This course explores methods used in epidemiology and their application to critical appraisal of clinical, epidemiological, and health administration for evidence-based management of health care organizations, improvement of delivery of health services, and for creating health policies. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the relationships between the host, the parasite and the environment in infectious disease investigations.

Instructor: John Ogony Arudo

Hygiene & Safety

This course introduces the principles of industrial and community hygiene and safety. It examines the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards to health and safety. It includes control methods, hygiene sampling equipment, and develops skills in occupational health and safety hazard recognition in a variety of cases.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Occupational Toxicology

This course explores occupational and industrial health hazards and toxic exposures. It examines the effects of exposure to chemical, physical, and biological agents, embracing the community and workplace environments. It considers current issues in human and environmental toxicology.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Health Technology

This course provides an overview of methods in health technology assessment, including cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility analysis, current controversies, successes and failures in implementing information technology. Medical informatics concerns the representation, organization, and manipulation of biomedical information.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Health Program Planning

This course presents a systems approach in the planning of effective health services to meet the needs of communities. Plans include effective and culturally appropriate implementation strategies, managing planning process, work plans, stakeholders, negotiation, and working with groups.

Instructor: John Ogony Arudo

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.