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online Wellness, Promotion and Epidemiology course at Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS: Wellness, Promotion and Epidemiology


Course Title: CH521 - Wellness, Promotion and Epidemiology
Department: Health Sciences
Instructor: Dr. Deryl Gulliford - E-Mail | Personal E-Mail |  Vita
E-mail dgullifo@canyoncollege.edu
Personal E-mail deryl@pldi.net
Phone (office BlackBerry®/cell): (405) 219-6715
Phone (cell): (405) 219-6227
Phone (home): (405) 285-1974
Pager: (877) 724-3711, PIN 5539
Address: 118 Gardenwood Dr, Holdenville, OK 74848-9528


Course Description:
This course is organized around several core themes, including the importance of disease prevention programs that address multiple health risks, the link between poverty and disease susceptibility, and the challenge of evaluating health benefits and cost-effectiveness. The course readings discuss such current issues as genetic determinism as a paradigm in wellness promotion, adolescent health promotion, teen pregnancy prevention strategies, racial differences in cancer epidemiology, strategies for reducing youth violence, HIV/AIDS prevention, domestic violence education and prevention srategies, and the future of women's health research. The course authors present these topics within the framework of social ecology.

Text: Online Bookstore
Promoting Human Wellness: New Frontiers for Research, Practice and Policy. Daniel Stokols and Margaret Jamner.
ISBN #: 0520226097 University of California Press. 2001.

This text is available through barnesandnoble.com and several other proprietary websites.

Course Format:
This course is divided into four units, covering text chapters as follows:

Unit One - Chapters 1-5
Unit Two - Chapters 6-12
Unit Three - Chapters 13-18
Unit Four - Chapters 19-24

Communication with Instructor:
Students are expected to communicate with the professor weekly during the course term. A brief email update is sufficient, although the professor will be pleased to discuss any matter by phone during the work day or during the evening hours at home.

Evaluation:
There is a written essay examination for each Unit, and a Scholarly Paper (approximately 10 pages in length, double-spaced) is also required for completion of the course. The Scholarly Paper topic and outline ust be approved prior to the writing.

Completion of the first two Unit Exams constitutes midterm progress, and completion of the final two Unit Exams constitutes final progress. There is no final examination for this course.

Grade Weighting:
Each Unit Exam is worth 20% of the course grade, and the Scholarly Paper is worth 20% of the course grade.

Course Topics:
Students should expect to study the following topics in the process of completing this course: About the Professor:

Dr. Gulliford is CEO of Seiling Hospital in Seiling, Oklahoma. He has 20+ years of experience in senior healthcare management. His clinical background includes work in respiratory care, critical care, non-invasive and invasive cardiology, and perfusion. Dr. Gulliford is currently National Chairman of the AAMA Small and Rural Healthcare Section.

Dr. Gulliford's Philosophy:
.............therefore however you want other people to treat you, so treat them.