Fall term; one credit; (HP, P, LP, NC)
*Core Requirement
Prerequisites: None

*ECS 151: Environmental and Occupational Health: Challenges, Controversies, and Critical Analysis

The course is open to all CECS students who meet the course prerequisites (ECS 140 and ECS 100) and is a required course for the MPH degree and for residents in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency. This course seeks to engage students in the exploration of major environmental/occupational health issues through application of epidemiologic methods and risk assessment. Through case studies and critical analysis of the literature, the relationship between environmental and occupational exposures and human disease will be examined with emphasis on risk communication, formation of public policy, and the role of regulatory agencies. Topics include air and water quality, hazardous waste, radiation, metals, environmental pathogens, and clinical occupational medicine. This course will be taught using lectures, guest experts, assigned readings/exercises and field/site visits.
Winter term; one credit; (HP, P, LP, NC)
Required for MPH; Elective for MS
Prerequisites: ECS 100 and 140

*ECS 154: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
This course describes the evolution of the predominant illness patterns that dominate contemporary populations. It delves into explanations for individual and population health that focus primarily social and behavioral determinants as they relate to community health. Finally, it examines local and global responses to burgeoning factors that will significantly impact population health in the coming decades. It offers students novel interventions, or opportunities to improve existing interventions promoting public health among those available and rehearse the development of such interventions.
Spring term; one credit; (HP, P, LP, NC)
Core Requirement for the M.P.H. degree
Prerequisites: ECS 100


*ECS 158/159: Field Experience in a Public Health Setting
The public health field experience provides students with an opportunity to apply principles and skills learned in the classroom - the measurement, organization, and improvement of public health care - to real situations in the field. It may be taken for two or three units of credit (ECS 158 or ECS 159). The two credit course, ECS 158, a minimum of 120 hours is required at the placement site and an additional 40 hours is required attending public health seminars, community health meetings, public health grand rounds, and other related conferences and seminars. The 3 credit course, ECS 159, requires a minimum of 180 hours in the field and 60 hours attending public health seminars, community health meetings, public health grand rounds, and other related conferences and seminars. Attendance at regularly scheduled public health seminars is also required during the fall, winter, and spring terms. Typically, the field experience occurs in the final term of the year, but other arrangements are possible with permission of the course director. Students who have completed their field experiences prepare and present posters at the conclusion of the spring term, present their sites with a written report or other deliverable items, and complete an exit appraisal of their experience and achievements. A more detailed description of the field experience is found under "Master of Public Health Field Experience Component."