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MPH 511 - Occupational Health

Credit(s): 3

This course is an introduction to major concepts and issues in occupational health and safety. Students from the fields of Industrial Hygiene, Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Injury Epidemiology and others identify a conceptual framework for working with populations of workers and apply public health principles. Work-related hazards are described in terms of recognition and control. This course relies on the synthesis of knowledge in the behavioral sciences, industrial hygiene, injury epidemiology, safety, nursing theory, toxicology and epidemiology while applying these within a program development and management framework.


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