STAT 416 - Public Health Maps and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity

Units: 3
Students will acquire geospatial skills, applied to health disparities. The goal of this course is gaining skills to approach public health problems from an equity perspective using spatial analysis and understanding place in display and analysis of health data.

Prerequisites: PH 206 and PH 306
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Cross-listed: PH 416
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate the ability to design, implement, and apply spatial data to determine and display relative prevalence of diseases.
Create maps and dashboards to illustrate the location and incidence of disease cases and conduct cluster/hot spot analysis for a specific disease.
Illustrate limitations of political boundaries (census areas, cities, counties), in predicting disease prevalence, and equity issues associated with health risks.
Collect and report survey data cartographically.
Illustrate how maps were used to contribute to structural racism by relating historic redlining maps to current health inequities.
Predict concentrations of an environmental contaminant where data are missing using imputation/interpolation methods.
Communicate information related to an important health issues including their geographic and demographic contexts with attention to low health literacy.