This course examines avenues of international cooperation in health and explores the most significant health problems and resources in developing and developed countries by focusing on international differences in health status, social/economic/political factors in health care, varied approaches to providing health services, the role of health workers, and the involvement of foundations and multilateral and bilateral agencies. Public Health majors, minors or students studying the Public Health concentration must complete this course with a C or better.

This course examines avenues of international cooperation in health and explores the most significant health problems and resources in developing and developed countries by focusing on international differences in health status, social/economic/political factors in health care, varied approaches to providing health services, the role of health workers, and the involvement of foundations and multilateral and bilateral agencies. Public Health majors, minors or students studying the Public Health concentration must complete this course with a C or better.

This introductory course incorporates not only the common concepts associated with environmental health (such as population dynamics, air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution) but also emerging and controversial issues associated with environmental threats to human health, such as emerging diseases, global warming, and biological and chemical weapons. Emphasis is on biological, chemical, and physical sources of exposures, the effects on human health, and the methods of limiting exposures and effects. Public Health majors, minors or students studying in the Public Health concentration must complete this course with a C or better.