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Free Public health Open Courseware & Classes - College@Home

Public health is a diverse field that includes ideas and practices from economics, social studies, intercultural communication, global outreach, public policy, disaster preparedness, refugee health, and much more.

 

For students thinking about pursuing a career in one of the many different avenues of public health, and for professionals already working in the industry, open courseware provides a unique opportunity for exploration in public health.

 

Classes offered from schools like MIT and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health make quality education available for anyone with access to an Internet connection.

 

This collection of courses features classes offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Students learn skills like intercultural communication, understanding diversity, understanding addiction, analyzing public policy, working with different kinds of health care providers, organizations and communities, and providing services to underdeveloped countries or communities that have experienced disaster.

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Does offering workers financial incentives to exercise increase levels of physical activity? Has restricting advertising of unhealthy foods to children been a success? Should health practitioners be paying more attention to YouTube?

 

All these questions - and more - are addressed in this collection of abstracts and posters to coincide with a new conference for 2012 dedicated to the latest research in public health, in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, National Heart Forum, and The Lancet.

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