CHN Core Courses

NURS 578 Social Justice and Determinants of Health (3)
Uses multiple data sources to critically analyze social justice and determinants of health in populations and communities. Critiques preventive theories related to the reduction of health disparities in complex systems. Examines theories related to the development, implementation, and evaluation of health policies and other systems' level approaches. Offered: A.

NURS 557 Health, Culture and Community (3)
A multidisciplinary approach to the development of leadership in personal and organizational cultural competence in community-based participatory research Emphasis is on understanding collaborative assessment, planning, and evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programs to address the Social Determinants of Health at the population level. Offered: jointly with HSERV 576; W.

NURS 576 Assessment and Collaboration with Communities, Populations, and Systems (3)
Examines, critiques and applies theory in assessing communities, populations, and systems cross-culturally; focuses on advanced practice, executive leadership/policy, and practice inquiry; broad definition of community includes organizations. Team work emphasized in assessment implementation, i.e., survey, interview, focus groups, observation/participant observation; advances understanding of social determinants of health. Offered: Sp.

NSG 561 Community Health Systems for Equity (3)
Defines, evaluates, and synthesize how community health systems promote health equity. Emphasizes how various systems, such as care systems, public health, governmental, tribal, family, and social-kin, nonprofit, faith-based, and business systems, inhibit or promote communal health. Highlights advanced practice, practice inquiry, and leadership implications. Offered: A.