Student and Program Outcomes
Upon completion of a Health Services Specialty Track Option, students will meet the following competencies:
GERO
- Attain an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging allowing students to make informed decisions about aging issues in health care and human services fields.
- Attain an interdisiplinary approach to the study of aging allowing students to transmit and apply gerontological knowledge in healthcare.
HA
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external stakeholders.
- The willingness and ability to support and lead individuals through change toward organizational and personal excellence.
- A personal and professional ethical approach to serving the patient, the organization, and the community with a focus on continuous improvement of service.
- A holistic understanding of the health care system and the environment in which it operates.
- An understanding of the basic tenets of business inclusive of human and financial resources, planning, the management of information, and quality improvement.
HPWW
- Obtain health-related data about social and cultural environments, growth and development factors, needs and interests.
- Distinguish between behaviors that foster and those that hinder well-being.
- Infer needs for health education on the basis of obtained data.
- Recruit community organizations, resource people and potential participants for support and assistance in program planning.
- Develop a logical scope and sequence plan for a health education program.
- Design educational programs consistent with specified program objectives.
LTCA
- Attain an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging which will allow students to make informed decisions about aging issues in health care and human services fields.
- Attain an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging allowing students to transmit and apply gerontological knowledge in health care.
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external stakeholders.
- The willingness and ability to support and lead individuals through change towards organizational and personal excellence.
- A personal and professional ethical approach to serving the patient, the organization, and the community with a focus on continuous improvement of service.
- A holistic understanding of the health care system and the environment in which it operates.
- An understanding of the basic tenets of business inclusive of human and financial resources, planning, the management of information, and quality improvement.
PH
- Demonstrate knowledge and use of biostatistics in the discipline of public health.
- Describe the direct and indirect human, ecological and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
- Explain the importance of epidemiology for informing scientific, ethical, economic and political discussion of health issues.
- Identify the main components and issues of the organization, financing and delivery of health services and public health systems in the United States.
- Identify the basic theories, concepts and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health research and practice.
- Differentiate among availability, acceptability, and accessibility of health care across diverse population.
