公共卫生学士学位

健康与行为科学（HBSC）计划的任务是应用社会科学理论和创新的研究方法来批判性地解决健康方面的新问题。该计划通过关注健康和疾病的社会决定因素，训练学生面对影响社区和人口健康的问题。这些决定因素比卫生保健系统对人口健康的影响更大。该计划的总体框架整合了社会，文化和生物医学的观点，以了解健康的基础以及其创建和维护的必要条件。学生和教职员工对新兴疾病，母婴健康，药物滥用，健康差异和全球健康等主题进行跨学科研究。毕业生是直接从事公共卫生实践的创新研究人员，有效的教育者和领导者。
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) and the Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) together created the undergraduate Public Health program. Public health professionals work to protect the environment, identify sources of illness in population groups, control disease outbreaks, evaluate the economic ramifications of changing demographics, develop interventions to promote healthy behavior and produce health policy legislation. Public health draws from a broad array of disciplines, including a range of social, behavioral, and natural sciences, each provides unique insights for the diverse set of activities involved in public health practice.<br>Students in the BA program develop a specialty in the social sciences and public health. Graduates with a BA in Public Health will be prepared for pursuit of graduate degrees in a broad range of fields, including the social and behavioral sciences, public health, law, social work, business administration, and health services research. The program is especially appropriate for students intending to pursue careers in public health, as well as health policy and administration.<br>Public health is working to protect the environment, identifying sources of illness in population groups, controlling disease outbreaks, evaluating the economic impacts of changing demographics, developing interventions to promote healthy behavior, and producing health policy legislation. Public health draws from a broad array of disciplines, such as the social and behavioral sciences, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, business, economics, statistics, epidemiology, law and biology, and each provides unique insights for the diverse set of activities involved in public health practice.