Overview
Description
Overview of human disease, implication of disease management, and current disease processes.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify biological principles required to understand infectious and non-infectious diseases of public health importance.
- describe how to survey diseases systematically within body systems in regard to general considerations, definition and classification, pathogenesis, clinical findings (signs/symptoms, laboratory findings, imaging), complications, prevention, treatment.
- describe how to integrate health promotion and disease prevention through understanding the biological basis for identifying risk/susceptibility factors for different populations.
- assess the relationship among screening, recommendations, and other therapeutic approaches related to disease prevention.
- discuss the differences in advocacy for the health of a community versus advocacy for health of an individual.
- explain biological and genetic factors that affect a population’s health.