These are only some examples of the video lectures for the above course at the American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN).
Enrolled students of AUSN gain credit hours through active live participation in classes. A list of required and elective courses for each degree program are provided in the degree program descriptions. In addition, they receive the AUSN Video lecture Archive Sheet to record which videos they have watched for additional knowledge. For countries that do not allow Youtube access (Channel: American University of Sovereign Nations), an original file can be shared with enrolled AUSN students. Anyone can request to try out a live AUSN class for free by writing to Dr. Darryl Macer, Provost, AUSN; Email: provost@ausovereignnations.org
AUSN as an intellectual forum for intercultural dialogue upholds the value of academic freedom for all professors and students, and the views expressed in the videos are not those of AUSN. The videos are a selection of the total video archive of AUSN that supplements the contact hours provided by in-person lectures, group skype sessions, and other supervised contact at AUSN.
The course description and expected competencies for this course are provided below. Some students use these videos to prepare for the course examinations, which in AUSN are open book/open Internet exams, where students need to prepare written answers (unless there is some condition that makes an oral exam the only possibility).
Links to example video lectures from the ESPH course
ESPH1, Prof. Leroy Rhein, Reflections on Service in Public Health
ESCH2, Prof. Angelica Baylon, Traditional Medical Practitioners and Bioethics in the Philippines
ESPH13, Prof. Duujian Tsai, Bioethics for Global Economic Revitalization: Bioethics for Global Economic Revitalization
ESPH14, Prof. Miyako Takagi , Ethical issues in medical and health care innovation
ESPH15, Prof. Lara López-Hernáez, Relationships between the Environment, Bullying and Violence
ESPH16, Prof. Osama Rajhkan, Development, CO2, and understanding personal health today
ESPH17, Prof. Michael Cheng-Tek Tai, The Cultural Impact on Autonomy
ESPH18, Prof. Dr. Soenarto Sastrowijoto, Bioethical issues in palliative care in Indonesia
ESPH19, Prof. Osama Rajhkan, Octopus: A Path to Integral Personal Health
ESPH20, Prof. Mariadoss Selvanayagam, Bioethics and Global health with reference to Hand washing in Children
ESPH21, Ananya26June2017ft, 26 June 2017, 0.3 hr, Prof. Ananya Triptipthumrongchok, Fortune Telling and Mental Health Support
ESPH22, Prof. Chutatip Umavijani, Spirituality and Development
Course details
Course Objectives: The objectives of this course include that the student gain a working understanding of the principles of public health and how they interrelate and interact with a general overall healthcare system and medical care system; and to learn the basics of epidemiology, and the study of health and diseases with respect to populations so that effective interventions may be undertaken.
Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the essential principles and foundations of public health so that the student can understand the field of public health and how it works through its federal, state and local public health system. It provides the student with the concepts and tools for measuring health and disease in populations, characterizing the relationship of the public health system with medical care and other elements of the overall health system.
Topics that are covered:
1. Public Health Ethics
2. What is Public Health?
3. A Brief History of Public Health in the United States;
4. Understanding and Measuring Health in the United States
5. An Ecological Approach to Public Health
6. Public Health and the Health System
7. Public Health Law and Government
8. Indigenous Peoples and Public Health
9. Global Public Health
10. Economic Dimensions of Health Outcomes
11. Public Health Practice Profile and their Important and Essential Duties;
12. Regulating Public Health and Professional Codes
13. Public Health Worker Ethics
14. Infectious Disease, Quarantine, Ethics and Law
15. Infectious Disease and Disease Prevention
16. Bioterrorism Preparedness
Competencies:
1. Describe the legal and ethical bases for public health and health services.
2. Apply basic principles of ethical analysis to issues of public health practice and policy.
3. Describe the roles of history, power, privilege and structural inequality in producing health disparities.
4. Identify the ethical, social and legal issues implied by public health sciences.
5. Distinguish between population and individual ethical considerations in relation to the benefits, costs, and burdens of public health programs.
6. Discuss sentinel events in the history and development of the public health profession and their relevance for practice in the field.
7. Identify key sources of epidemiologic data, and comprehend basic ethical and legal principles pertaining to the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of epidemiologic data.
8. Calculate basic epidemiology measures, including risk, rate, incidence, and prevalence.
9. Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data.