2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

274 Texas A&MHealth Science CenterSchool of Rural Public Healthsrph.tamhsc.edu(SRPH)600. Biological Basis of Health and Common Diseases. Credit 3. This course is designed to providepublic health students grounding in the biological basis of healthy human functioning and the biologyof diseases that they are likely to encounter in public health practice. The course provides an overviewof molecular biology, genetics, immunology, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension,the metabolic syndrome, cancer, respiratory infections, intestinal infections, and emerging infectiousdiseases.640. Public Health Informatics. Credit 3. Provides an overview of the field of public health informatics,and focuses on PHI competencies for public health practitioners. Key informatics challenges and currenttopics, such as evidence-based public health data and vocabulary standards, privacy and security,interoperability and health information exchange, electronic health records and data integration, areexplored. Students will learn techniques for search in public health literature and will practice informaticsevaluation skills by assessing a health information system.