专业概况
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The MPH in occupational and environmental health aims to prepare graduate level students for professional careers in environmental and occupational health. Students must have had a college algebra course and a college biology course. The graduates of the program will have a broad overview of the public health perspective on occupational and environmental health and will be ready to take a wide variety of jobs in that area. The program requires a minimum of 42 semester hours.
Graduates of the MPH in Occupational and Environmental Health will be able to:
- Understand the use of statistical analyses including: graphs and tables, descriptive statistics, probability, binomial and normal distributions, sampling distributions, tests of significance, confidence intervals, frequency data analysis, linear regression and correlation and nonparametric tests.
- Understand epidemiological principles including: design and analysis of case-control and cohort studies, historical and current examples of descriptive and analytic epidemiologic studies, etiologic factors in human disease and the determinants of disease in man.
- Understand the organizational arrangements of medical services in the United
- States; determine the utilization, amount and type of health resources available;
- Government regulations concerning the financing of health care; social, political and economic factors that determine the future of public health services.
- Understand the principles of the practice of occupational medicine, industrial hygiene and safety, occupational health nursing, ergonomics and occupational health management.
- Assess contemporary human health issues associated with the biological, chemical and physical factors of the environment and perform a critical review of the environmental factors that affect health.
- Discuss and identify the sources, routes of entry, and effects of environmental toxicants; path physiology of toxicant actions, including those of air and water pollutants, metals, pesticides, solvents, mycotoxins, food toxicants and other chemicals.
- Understand the relationship between behavioral sciences and social epidemiology and their relationship to occupational health.
所属院系
进入哪个院系学习？ College of Public Health
中国学生入学要求
课程信息
学制：全日制(MINIMUM OF 42 SEMESTER HOURS)
学费：US$30,549.50 (¥ 194,353) /年
开学时间：2022八月30日, 2022一月18日
申请截止日期：
留学地点：College of Public Health145 N. Riverside Drive,100 CPHB,IOWA CITY,Iowa,52242, United States
