SYLLABUS CPH 478/578 Public Health Nutrition Fall Semester 2012

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1 SYLLABUS CPH 478/578 Public Health Nutrition Fall Semester 2012 ime: Location: Instructor: uesdays and hursdays 2:30pm 3:45pm Drachman Hall A114 Douglas aren, PhD Phone: Office: Drachman Hall A217H Office Hours: By Appointment eaching Assistant: BD A Office Hours: By Appointment Catalog Description: his course is an analysis of nutrition issues concerned with health and disease. Biochemical, physiological and socioeconomic interactions will be evaluated as they relate to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition programs and research that affect women and children. Prerequisites: Junior or senior level public health majors. Graduate student in a health related field including biological or social sciences. CPH 309 Introduction to Epidemiology. Objectives of the Course At the end of the course students will be able to: 1. Interpret, evaluate and use nutrition recommendations made by individuals and organizations at the local and national level. 2. Evaluate the current biochemical, physiological and epidemiological literature on the relationships between nutrition, health and diseases. 3. Develop nutritional assessments for identifying and monitoring malnutrition and hunger in individuals and communities, using social, dietary, anthropometric and biochemical measures. 4. Integrate biological and social factors affecting health to develop intervention (prevention) programs that will have an impact on the nutritional status of a community. 5. Assess, monitor and evaluate the impact of public health programs.

2 Master of Public Health Competencies Addressed Understands how the data illuminates ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues. Communicates effectively both in writing and orally (unless a handicap precludes one of those forms of communication). Leading and participating in groups to address specific issues, including ability to work in teams, span organizational boundaries, and cross systems. Developing mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality. Identifying and examining the role of cultural, social, ethnic, religious, spiritual, and behavioral factors in determining disease prevention health promoting behavior, and health service organizational and delivery. Defining, assessing, and understanding the health status of population, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services. Understanding of the historical development and structure of state. Local, and federal public health agencies. Preparing proposals for funding from internal and external sources. Undergraduate Competencies Describe the historical development of public health systems and their role in society. Use epidemiological principles to describe and analyze causes of disease and illness. Provide a biological description for the major causes of communicable and non-communicable diseases and their pathology. Course Notes: PowerPoint presentations for class will be on the D2L site. equired ext: Boyle MA, Holben DH (Eds). Community Nutrition in Action. An Entrepreneurial Approach, 6 th Edition. Wadsworth, Belmont CA, Beffa-Negrini P, Geurin N, Stracker D, Sylvie A. Community Needs Assessment Workbook. Wadsworth, Belmont CA, Course equirements: Do readings before you come to class. Don t fall behind.

3 Grading/Student Evaluation: Evaluation Method Undergraduate Points Graduate Points Mid-term exam Mid-term exam Final exam Class Activities Current Event eports Group Project Workbook Group Project eport Group Project Presentation erm Paper otal Grades: A 90%-100% B 80%-89% C 70%-79% D 60%-69% E < 59% Class Activities here will be in-class activities that will be graded. hey will include such activities as small group discussions followed by presentations, small papers to write in response to a question, work on a case study, sets of questions to answer using class clickers. here will be 10 in-class activities and your grade will include the highest 5 of these during the semester. A missing activity will receive a grade of 0. Your first activity will be on August 23. Current Events eports wo time during the semester, each student will need to review a news article that focuses on a public health nutrition issue. he articles must be from a credible newspaper (online sources are ok too). hey need to address a current public health topic that includes a public health program, legislation, lawsuit, report of a research study (find the original article too), or other item that may affect nutrition policy. Do not present an article only on human nutrition (i.e., beta carotene reduces risk for cancer). Write a 2 page double spaced (500 words) evaluation of the most salient part of the news item, just don t report what it says! Present on at least 3 of the following elements of thought regarding the article: (1) its purpose-goals and objective of the article, (2) questions at issues problem or issue being addressed, (3) information in the article-data, facts, etc, (4) interpretation and inferencesconclusions it made, (5) concepts-theories, laws, principles that it presented, (6) assumptions that it made, (7) and the implications or consequences the article could have.

4 here are two drop boxes for you to place your two page report and an electronic version of the news article. he last day that I will accept a news article is on Nov 20, 2012 at 5pm. If it is late you will get no points for the news article. However, you can send it in anytime during the semester using the D2L drop box. Guidelines for Group Project and Final Presentation You will conduct a community nutritional needs assessment following the workbook by Boyle and Holben. You should work in groups of 5. You need to turn in one completed workbook and a written report when you are done. You will also provide an oral presentation about the needs assessment. he paper will be graded using the rubric used in workbook. I will provide you the rubric that will be used to grade your group presentation at the time of your second midterm exam. Graduate Student erm Papers Graduate Papers should be a concise 3000 word presentation and discussion of a problem in public health nutrition. CIICAL EVALUAION OF LIEAUE EFEENCES IS EXPECED. opics require the approval of the instructor. An evaluation of the literature means to get peer reviewed research articles, critic them and use them to study your topic. I recommend that you use he Miniature Guide to Critical hinking by Paul and Elder as you review the papers for this review. You are encouraged to consult the instructor for bibliographic leads. he requisite materials may not be available on campus. eferences that must be obtained by Interlibrary Loan may take four to six weeks to come in, so get organized early! he use of footnotes plus a bibliography is not necessary for this paper. eferences should be cited according to a standard format. he list of references cited can be keyed to the text by the name-and-year system or by a number system (with the references in the order cited or alphabetically). You can also use the format outlined in a standard journal such as the American Journal of Public Health or he American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. he graduate term paper is due November 29. Class Attendance/Participation: Students are expected to sign in each class and at times there will be in-class projects that must be turned in at the end of the class and these will be used to provide your points for class participation. All holidays or special events observed by organized religions will be honored for those students who show affiliation with that particular religion. Absences pre-approved by the UA Dean of Students or Dean s designee will be honored. Communications: You are responsible for reading s sent to your UA account from your professor and the announcements that are placed on the course web site. Information about readings, news events, your grades, assignments and other course related topics will be communicated to you with these electronic methods. he official policy can be found at:

5 Disability Accommodation: If you anticipate issues related to the format or requirements of this course, please meet with me. I would like us to discuss ways to ensure your full participation in the course. If you determine that formal, disability-related accommodations are necessary, it is very important that you be registered with Disability esources ( ; drc.arizona.edu) and notify me of your eligibility for reasonable accommodations. We can then plan how best to coordinate your accommodations. he official policy can be found at: Academic Integrity: All UA students are responsible for upholding the University of Arizona Code of Academic Integrity, available through the office of the Dean of Students and online: he official policy found at: Classroom Behavior: (Statement of expected behavior and respectful exchange of ideas) he Dean of Students has set up expected standards for student behaviors and has defined and identified what is disruptive and threatening behavior. his information is available at: Students are expected to be familiar with the UA Policy on Disruptive and hreatening Student Behavior in an Instructional Setting found at: and the Policy on hreatening Behavior by Students found at: bklt_2012.pdf Grievance Policy: Should a student feel he or she has been treated unfairly, there are a number of resources available. With few exceptions, students should first attempt to resolve difficulties informally by bringing those concerns directly to the person responsible for the action, or with the student's graduate advisor, Assistant Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs, department head, or the immediate supervisor of the person responsible for the action. If the problem cannot be resolved informally, the student may file a formal grievance using the Graduate College Grievance Policy found at: Grade Appeal Policy: Syllabus Changes: Information contained in the course syllabus, other than the grade and absence policies, may be subject to change with reasonable advance notice, as deemed appropriate. Please Note: You may need to copy the above ULs into the web browser. ULs change frequently. You will need to test the ULs in the syllabus you produce each semester, to ensure the links are correct. elephone and Computer Use: You are not allowed to have your computer on during class. urn your cell phones to silent or vibrate in order to not disrupt the class and disturb your fellow students and professor.

6 Plagiarism: What counts as plagiarism? Copying and pasting information from a web site or another source, and then revising it so that it sounds like your original idea. Doing an assignment/essay/take home test with a friend and then handing in separate assignments that contain the same ideas, language, phrases, etc. Quoting a passage without quotation marks or citations, so that it looks like your own. Paraphrasing a passage without citing it, so that it looks like your own. Hiring another person to do your work for you, or purchasing a paper through any of the onor off-line sources. Any offense of academic misconduct (cheating, plagiarism) will result in an automatic E for the course.

7 CPH 478/578 Schedule of Classes Fall 2012 Day and Date opic Project Steps Book chapter (pages) Introduction Community 1 (3-36) Nutrition Assessing the Identify Group 3 (67-98) arget Population s Nutritional Status Members and Needs Assessment opic eview Dietary Assessments Assessing urn in Step 1 2 (37-66) Community esources Program Planning 4 (99-138) for Success Principles of urn in Step 2 5 ( ) Epidemiology Art and Science of 6 ( ) Policy Making he National 7 ( ) Nutrition Agenda he National 7 ( ) Nutrition Agenda Health Care urn in Step 3 9 ( ) Systems and Policy Food Insecurity 10 ( ) Food Insecurity 10 ( ) eview for Exam Mid-term Exam Addressing the urn in Step 4 8 ( ) Obesity Epidemic Healthy Aging 13 ( ) Mothers and Infants 11 ( ) Children and 12 ( ) Adolescents World Hunger and Food Insecurity 14 ( ) October 30 Mid-term Exam Understanding and Achieving Behavioral Change 15 ( )

8 Day and Date opic Project Steps Book chapter (pages) Gaining Cultural urn in Step 5 16 ( ) Competence in Community Nutrition Principles of 17 ( ) Nutrition Education Marketing Nutrition urn in Step 6 18 ( ) and Health Promotion Managing 19 ( ) Community Nutrition Programs Building urn in Step 7 20 ( ) Grantsmanship Skills hanksgiving Class Presentations Class Presentations Class Presentations Final Exam