COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

The UIC School of Public Health recommends courses be taken in the following sequence due to content flow and curriculum interdependencies.

Green arrows indicate the recommended course sequence, while black arrows indicate content flow and interdependency.

EOHS 494: Environmental Health Database Design and Analysis*
Introduction to computer assisted management information and decision systems in health organizations: analysis and design of databases; data and information flow; reports; and uses microcomputers.

* This course is proposed to be EOHS 475 as of spring 2010.

EOHS 564: Geographic Information System Application in Public Health
This course promotes a critical understanding of the various components of a GIS, including its potentials and limitations for analyzing spatial environmental health databases. Throughout the course the use of the ESRI ArcGIS software is taught for storing, analyzing and displaying environmental health information on a spatial scale. Same as HPA 564.

EOHS 565: Datamining Applications in Public Health
This course addresses the major theories, practices and techniques related to datamining of rational data bases. Throughout the course SPSS Clementine is used to gain an operational understanding of the primary datamining modeling and evaluation techniques, including their potentials and limitations. Same as HPA 565.

EOHS 572: Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
This course covers risk assessment from a public health and an environmental risk management perspective with an emphasis on decision tree methodologies and their potential to facilitate the analysis and identification of optimum remedial risk management alternatives.