Social theories of aging, developmental changes, cultural perspectives and intergenerational relationships. The aging worker, housing, ageism and health care for the elderly. The social construction of the aging experience through examination of models of psychosocial health in old age, and in-depth revew of current research investigations focusing on bereavement in the elderly, health status of older adults, long-term care needs and dependency relationships.
Prerequisites: Biostatistics P6103 or P6104; and for all Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) track students, P6727, Preventive Health Behavior and P8772, Planning and Implementation of Health Promotion Programs.
Review of the basic principles and methods of evaluation in public health. Critical analysis of existing evaluation studies.
Prerequisites: Biostatistics P6103 or P6104; and for all Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) track students, P6727, Preventive Health Behavior and P8772, Planning and Implementation of Health Promotion Programs.
Review of the basic principles and methods of evaluation in public health. Critical analysis of existing evaluation studies.
Prerequisites:
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.
Prerequisites:
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.
Prerequisites:
G6215
and
G6216
.
The topic of the colloquium is to be understood broadly, including in particular international monetary economics, stabilization policies, and the role of expectations in economic dynamics.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
The newly revised 3 point seminar-like course deals with the performance of independent Ukraine on international arena, its relationship with major powers: Russia, Europe and the US and the trajectory of its foreign policy. Having illegally annexed Crimea and conducting a proxy war in Eastern Ukraine, Russia has challenged the basic principles of international law, numerous bilateral agreements and threatening global peace and security. What is to be done to rebuff the aggressor? Can diplomacy still play a role? These and other issues are dealt with in this course. Special emphasis is made on the assessment of current conflict with Moscow and on the new trends in foreign policy doctrine. The issues of national security and current political situation are dealt with extensively. The course delivers first-hand insights by a career diplomat, who has been actively involved in the implementation of Ukrainian foreign policy for over three decades. The format of the course will encourage active dialogue and analytical reflection on the part of the students. The course is aimed at attracting both graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
The role public health practice has played in American history during the 19th and 20th centuries. The social/biological environment and the creation of conditions for 19th- century epidemics of cholera, typhoid, yellow fever and other epidemic diseases. The changing urban and industrial infrastructure and their relationship to late 19th- and 20th-century concerns about tuberculosis, industrial illness and infection. Public health practice and campaigns. Social attitudes towards the industrial worker, the immigrant, and the urban environment. Boundaries between public health and medical practice and their shifting definitions. Changes in urban living and culture through the transformation of the industrial work place.
This course examines the growing role of distributed energy resources in the global energy mix, with a focus on economic and technology fundamentals of key technologies, the changing business model of regulated electric and gas utilities, and new and emerging approaches to enabling innovation at the "Grid Edge." The course will also focus on changing relationship between distributed technology providers, consumers, and the grid, and the role of platform networks and new approaches to market design and resource valuation, and specifically how they relate to policy goals such as lower customer bills, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, or reliability/resilience. Finally, the course will review and develop business cases for products or concepts in "real world" policy landscapes, including urban energy environments.
Focuses on the principles and practices of designing social science research in public health, particularly using qualitative methodology. New issues for public health indicate a growing need for applied research, and social science research has become particularly important in the field of health promotion and in policy formation, evaluation and outcomes measurement. As a consequence, developing research agendas and undertaking research proposal assessment is becoming an important aspect of many health professionals' work. Principal research design concerns included in the course are: selecting a research topic; developing and clarifying specific research aims and purposes; selecting populations or target groups to be involved in the research; identifying audiences; assessing resources; nominating research outcomes and applications; project planning and data management; dissemination of findings. Key issues discussed include: capacities and objectives of qualitative social research; multi-method research; and the relationship between difficult health problems and feasible research projects, including collaboration with affected communities. Students begin to develop their own research proposals during the course in preparation for subsequent intensive methods training in the second course in the sequence - P8786 Ethnographic Methods in Health Research. The course utilizes case studies in qualitative research, particularly from the HIV/AIDS, sexual health and related fields. .
This is the first part of a two-semester seminar which essays a selective genealogy of the major theoretical traditions undergirding contemporary practice in the sociomedical sciences. The historical review in the fall – like the critical examination of current research projects in the spring – is guideded by the framing interests and signature emphases of the department: urban environs in transformation, social structures and axes of inequality, disparities in morbidity and mortality, agency and identity, social construction and production of health and disease, globalization and marginalization. The overall aim is to familiarize students with the relevant interpretive/analytic traditions, provide a rehearsal stage for testing out particular tools and frameworks in “compare and contrast” exercises, and build the theoretical foundations enabling them to critically assess contemporary work in the field through the pratical means of close readings, class discussion, and reflective writing. The second part of this seminar is P8789, Contemporary Debates in Sociomedical Sciences.
This bi-weekly seminar is offered primarily to and designed for master's students in the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and Epidemiology who have been accepted into the Initiative for Minority Student Development (IMSD) program, an Education Project Grant sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the IMSD program is to increase the number of under-represented minority students who pursue doctoral degrees or research careers in public health. Students in the IMSD program are required to take this 2-year seminar (1 credit per semester), and to participate in a research project with a faculty mentor. Topics addressed in the course include research, methodology, and statistics (RMS) workshops addressing issues in common to Sociomedical Sciences and Epidemiology, as well as workshops on professional and academic development (PAD) issues. Students will be given the opportunity to present their work in progress. Graded on a pass/fail basis.