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  • HLTH 3600: Social Marketing

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Identifies how to promote social changes to the consumer. Teaches packaging, positioning and framing of programs to appeal to more salient, powerful, and influential core values: freedom, independence, autonomy, control, fairness, democracy, and free enterprise. Discusses marketing principles, planning, implementing, and evaluation of public health programs, strategic planning, social change theory, and case studies.
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  • HLTH 3700: Grant Writing for Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Provides knowledge and skills for public health grant writing. Teaches the major elements of grant writing including the identification of grant sources, writing grant proposals, and preparation of budgets and timelines.
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  • HLTH 3750: Biostatistics for Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 1050 or 1055 or STAT 1040 or 1045 and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the use of statistics for research purposes in health-related fields. Teaches principles of probability and statistical inference. Covers descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency, variability, correlation, and various inferential techniques such as t-tests, analysis of variance, regression, post-hoc tests, and non-parametric statistical tests.
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  • HLTH 3800: Epidemiology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Introduces epidemiologic principles and methods. Examines the historical and theoretical bases of epidemiology; statistical methods; distribution of disease over person, place, and time; research methods utilized in epidemiology; and the application of epidemiology to the prevention of disease and the promotion of health.
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  • HLTH 4140: Assessment and Program Development

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): HLTH 3200 and University Advanced Standing. Pre- or Corequisite(s): HLTH 3260. Intended for Public Health majors. Covers building a rationale, gaining support of stakeholders, selecting an appropriate model or theory, conducting a needs assessment, developing goals and objectives, and determining appropriate public health education strategies. Helps students develop the skills to successfully begin the program planning process.
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  • HLTH 4160: Program Implementation and Evaluation

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): HLTH 4140 and University Advanced Standing. Intended for Public Health majors. Builds upon HLTH 4140 and develops the knowledge, skills, and abilities to conduct health program implementation and evaluation. Includes a systematic approach to the implementation and evaluation of health education programs.
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  • HLTH 4300: Health Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University advanced standing. Applies ethics theories and principles to healthcare ethics. Explores historical and contemporary topics related to autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and confidentiality. Explains the Belmont Report, HIPAA rules, and the role and function of Institutional Review Boards. Examines various healthcare issues related to ethics such as: healthcare allocation, costs, maternal-fetal conflict, death and dying, patient rights, informed consent, biomedical research, and organ transplant.
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  • HLTH 4400G: Health and Diversity

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Provides students with a specific set of skills and knowledge in cultural competence. Focuses on understanding the public health system, identifying one's own cultural biases, understanding biases regarding one's own cultural identity, and developing culturally competent approaches and tools. Explores diversity of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, and vulnerable populations in healthcare contexts. Enables students to be more effective public health professionals whether they work with diverse populations within the United States or in international settings.
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  • HLTH 4600: Research Methods for Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Introduces research techniques, methodology, and designs. Examines the planning, organizing, and conducting of research studies for solving problems unique to community health. Includes literature review and research article critiques.
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  • HLTH 4720: CHES Preparation

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Department approval; University Advanced Standing; Senior standing. Provides an overview of the health education areas of responsibilities in preparation for the Certified Health Education Specialist national exam and is for students in their last semester at UVU, planning to register and take the CHES exam in October or April..
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