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BOOKS & READERS
All BUSPH textbooks and course readers are sold at the
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COURSE WEBSITES
Many (not all) SPH courses utilize Blackboard course management software. To view course web sites from Fall 2012 and previous
semesters, visit:
h t t p / / : b l a c k b o a r d . b u . e d u
This document is also available on the web: h t t p : / / s p h . b u . e d u , Student Affairs > Student Services > Student
Resources > Course_Reader_and_Book_Doc_Fall_2012
It will also be available on the bookshelf located outside the Registrar’s Office in the Talbot building. Students are responsible for this
information.
Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
Course
Reader
Textbooks
Pre-Assignment
BS704 A1, B1, C1, D1, E1:
Introduction to Biostatistics
BS720 A1: Introduction to R:
software for statistical
computing
No
Essentials of Biostatistics for Public Health (Sullivan LM)
No
No
One Required: Introductory Statistics with R (Dalgaard), One
Optional: Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R
(Chambers)
No
BS722 A1: Design & Conduct
of Clinical Trials
No
Fundamentals of Clinical Trials, 3rd edition (Friedman, Furberg,
DeMets)
No
BS723 A1, B1, C1, D1:
Introduction to Statistical
Computing
No
Required: Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming
Language, 5th Edition (Cody and Smith); Optional: SAS System
for Elementary Statistical Analysis, 2nd Edition (Schlotzhauer,
Littell)
No
BS728 A1: Public Health
Surveillance, A Methods Based
Approach
BS805 A1, B1, C1:
Intermediate Statistical
Computing and Applied
Regression Analysis
No
No Textbook
No
No
2 Optional Textbooks: 1. Applied Statistics and the SAS
Programming Language (Cody & Smith), 2. Common Statistical
Methods for Clinical Research with SAS examples (G Walker)
No
BS810 A1: Meta-analysis for
Public Health and Medical
Research
BS821 A1: Categorical Data
Analysis
BS852 A1, B1: Statistical
Methods in Epidemiology
BS855 A1: Bayesian Modeling
for Biomedical Research and
Public Health
No
No Textbook
No
No
Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 6th Edition (Rosner)
No
No
Optional: Statistics for Epidemiology (Jewell)
No
No
2 Optional: 1. Bayesian Statistical Modeling (Congdon), 2.
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Kruschke)
No
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
BS858 A1: Statistical Genetics
No
Optional: 1. Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology
(Thomas), 2. Genetic Analysis of Complex Disease (Haines)
No
BS861 A1: Applied Statistics in
Clinical Trials II
No
No Textbook
No
EH710 A1: Physiologic
Principles in Public health
No
Required: Vander’s Human Physiology 12E (Widmaier), ISBN
9780077471859. For further information please see course
Blackboard site.
Vander Text Chapters 1 and
2
EH717 A1, B1, C1:
Introduction to Environmental
Health
EH745 A1: Wastewater &
Health/ Sustainable Sanitation
No
Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the
World (Maxwell NI)
Read Chapters 1 & 2
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
EH750 A1: Water Quality and
Public Health
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
EH757 A1: Environmental
Epidemiology
EH765 A1: Survey of
Environmental Health
No
No Textbook
No
No
Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the
World (Maxwell NI)
Chapter 1
EH806 A1: Development and
the Environment
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
EH811 A1: Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) in
Public Heatlh
EH840 A1: Intermediate
Toxicology
No
Optional: Getting to Know ArcGIS desktop, 2nd Edition (Tim
Ormsby)
No
No
No Textbook
No
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
EH914 A1: Doctoral Seminar in
Environmental Health
No
No Textbook
No
EP713 A1, C1, D1, E1:
Introduction to Epidemiology
No - A1, C1,
D1, E1
Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, 2nd Edition
(Aschengrau & Seage)
No
EP713 B1 (Greece):
Introduction to Epidemiology
Check Course
Website
Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, 2nd Edition
(Aschengrau & Seage)
No
EP721 A1: Survey Methods for
Public Health
No
No
EP751 A1: Cardiovascular
Epidemiology
No
4 Required: 1. Survey Research Methods (FJ Fowler), 2. The
Science of Self-Report (Stone A, et al.), 3. Standardized Survey
Interviewing (Fowler & Mangione), 4. Introduction to Survey
Sampling (G Kalton)
No Textbook
EP752 A1: Cancer
Epidemiology
Yes
No Textbook
Readings for first class
EP763 A1: Genetic
Epidemiology
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
EP764 A1: The Epidemiology
of HIV/AIDS in the Developed
and Developing Worlds
EP775 A1: Social Epidemiology
No
No Textbook
No
Yes
Required: Methods in Social Epidemiology (Oakes & Kaufman);
Optional: Social Epidemiology (Berkman, Kawachi)
No
EP784 A1: The Epidemiology
of Tuberculosis in the
Developed and Developing
Worlds
No
No Textbook
No
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No
Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
EP800 A1: Microbes and
Methods: Selected Topics in
Outbreak Investigation
EP813 A1: Intermediate
Epidemiology
EP830 A1: Drug Epidemiology
Yes
No Textbook
No
Yes
Epidemiology: An Introduction (Rothman)
No
Yes
No Textbook
Readings for first class
EP854 A1: Advanced
Epidemiology
No
Modern Epidemiology, 3rd Edition (Rothman, Greenland, Lash)
EP857 A1: Design and Conduct
of Cohort Studies
EP858 A1: Design and Conduct
of Case Control Studies
Yes
No Textbook
In Textbook: Chapter 3
(especially pp. 34-40, 46-49,
Chapter 4 (especially pp. 5155, 69)
Readings for first class
No
Modern Epidemiology, 3rd Edition (Rothman, Greenland, Lash)
No
IH702 A1, B1: Skills in Critical
Analysis and Evidence-Based
Writing for Public Health
Professionals
IH703 A1: Global Public
Health: History, Approaches,
and Practices
IH720 A1, B1, C1: Social and
Behavioral Sciences in
International Health
No
Check Course Website
No
No
No Textbook
No
No
Health Behavior Theory for Public Health: Principles,
Foundations, and Applications (DiClemente et al.)
Instructor will email to
students
IH735 A1: Gender, Sexuality,
Power & Inequity in
International Health
IH743 A1: Implementing
Health Programs in Developing
Countries: Making Programs
Work
No
No Textbook
No
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
IH745 A1, B1: Implementing
Health Programs in Developing
Countries: Making Programs
Work
No
Two Required: 1. Methods for Development Work and
Research (Mikkelsen), 2. Program Evaluation and Performance
Measurement: An Introduction to Practice (McDavid and
Hawthorn)
In Textbook: McDavid &
Hawthorn, Ch. 1
IH753 A1: Beyond
Reproductive Health:
Women's Health in Developing
Countries
IH773 A1: Financial
Management for International
Health
IH777 A1: Culminating
Experience Seminar
No
The Atlas of Women in the World (Saeger)
Readings for first class
No
No Textbook
No
No
2 Required: 1. Elements of Style, 4th Edition (Strunk and
White), 2. The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight
Against AIDS (Epstein)
Read Helen Epstein Book
Before the First Day of Class
IH792 A1: Capacity, Cost &
Need: Balancing the Equation.
A Quantitative Exercise in
Health Systems Planning and
Analysis
IH795 A1: Global AIDS
Epidemic: Social & Economic
Determinants, Impact &
Responses
IH854 A1: From Data to
Dashboards: Building Excel
Skills to Support Health
Program Decisions
IH881 A1: Evidence-Based
Strategies for International
Reproductive Health
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
No
No Textbook
Class 1 Readings
No
2 Required: 1. Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies
(Alexander), 2. MS Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business
Modeling (Winston);
Check Blackboard site
No
No Textbook
No
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
IH885 A1: Global Trade,
Intellectual Property and
Public Health
IH887 A1: Planning and
Managing MCH Programs in
Developing Countries
(emphasis on child health)
No
No Textbook
No
No
No Textbook
Check Blackboard Site
LW719 A1, B1, C1: Essentials
of Public Health Law
LW725 A1: Ethical Issues in
Medicine and Public Health
Yes
No Textbook
Readings for the first class
No
Intervention & Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics
(Munson)
In Textbook: pp. 740-791
LW740 A1: Human Rights &
Health
No
3 Required: 1. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights,
and the New War on the Poor (Farmer), 2. Health and Human
Rights: Basic International Documents, 2nd Edition (Marks),3.
Perspectives on Health and Human Rights (Gruskin, Grodin,
Annas, Marks)
In Textbook: “Pathologies
of Power”, preface and pp.
1-50.
Documents:
•Professional Ethics (pg 2734)
•Declaration of Geneva
•World Medical Association,
International Code of
Medical Ethics
•Nurses and Human Rights
•Madrid Declaration on
Ethical Standards for
Psychiatric Practice
Perspectives:
•Introduction (xiii-xx)
•Part I: The Links between
Health and Human Rights
•Health and Human Rights
(1-57)
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
LW751 A1: Public Health Law
Yes
No Textbook
In Textbook: The Rights of
Patients, Preface; Reader:
Class 1 Readings
MC725 A1: Women, Children
and Adolescents: Public Health
Approaches
MC759 A1: Perinatal
Epidemiology
MC775 A1: Health Disparities
& Vulnerable Populations
No
Random Family (LeBlanc)
Read Random Family
No
No Textbook
No
Yes
Health Disparities in the United States-Social Class, Race,
Ethnicity, and Health (Barr)
No
MC786 A1: Immigrant Family
Health: Public Health Across
Borders
MC802: Leading Community
Health Initiatives: Medicine
and Public Health as Partners
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
No
Managers Who Lead: A Handbook for Improving Health
Services (MSH),
Class 1 Readings
PH510 A1: Introduction to
No
Public Health
PH709 A1: The Biology of
No
Public Health
PH825 A1: Human and
No
Environmental Factors
Influencing the Emergence and
Re-Emergence of Infectious
Diseases
Introduction to Public Health (Schneider)
In Textbook: Prologue,
Chapters 1-2
No
The Role Of Human & Environmental Factors in Emerging &
Reemerging Infectious Diseases (Cowan)
Chapter 13 in textbook
PH851 A1: Needs Assessment
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
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No
No Textbook
Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
PH856 A1: Health Law & Ethics
for Public Health Leaders
PH857 A1: Health Economics
& Financial Management for
Public Health
Yes
Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy & Practice (Bayer et al)
Check Blackboard Site
No
Two Required: 1.Intro. To Health Economics (Wonderling,
David, Reinhold, Gruen, and Black), 2. Financial Management
in Health Services (Gruen, Reinhold, and Howarth)
PH866 A1: Public Health
Leadership Seminar
No
No Textbook
In Textbook: Wonderling,
Chapters 1-4, pp. 1-67; In
Reader: Sen article, "Health
in Development" and article
by Berliner & Ginzburg on
nursing shortage
No
PM702 A1, B1, C1:
Introduction to Health Policy &
Management
No
Understanding Health Policy, 6th Edition (Bodenheimer)
PM721 A1: Organizational
Behavior & Health
Management
No
Organizational Behavior in Health Care (Borkowski)
PM736 A1: Human Resources
Management
Yes
Two Required: 1. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement
Without Giving In (Fisher, Ury & Ratton), 2. Human Resources
in Healthcare, 3rd (Fried & Fottler)
No
PM742 A1: Introduction to
Pharmaceutical Assessment,
Management, and Policy
PM755 A1: The Shape of
Healthcare Delivery
No
No Textbook
No
No
No Textbook
Instructor will email class
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Section B1:Instructor will
email class via Blackboard
Sections A1 & C1: Class 1
Readerings
Chapter 1
Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
PM758 A1: Introduction to
Mental Health Services
Class meets
Contact Instructor: ken@nami.org
10/28- 12/16
Contact
Instructor:
ken@nami.org
Contact Instructor:
ken@nami.org
PM776 A1: Managerial Skills
for Problem Solving
Yes
4 Required Textbooks: 1. The Fifth Discipline (Senge), 2. The
Fifth Discipline Field Book (Senge), 3. How the way we talk can
change the way we work (Kegan & Lahey), 4. Difficult
Conversations (Stone, Patton & Heen); Optional: 1. How to
Make Meetings Work (Doyle & Strauss)
In Textbook: The Fifth
Discipline chapters 1 & 2;
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, p.
1-12
PM780 A1: Introduction to
Managerial Accounting for
Healthcare Leaders
PM814 A1: Contemporary
Theoretical and Empirical
Issues in Health Services
Research
PM827 A1: Strategic
Management of Healthcare
Organizations
PM830 A1: Developing
Patient-Based Health Status
and Outcomes Measures
No
Instructor Will Email Class
Instructor Will Email Class
No
No Textbook
No
No
Check Blackboard Site
Check Blackboard Site
Yes
Two Required: 1. Health Measurement Scales: A Practical
Guide to their Development and Use, 4th Ed. (Streiner and
Norman), 2. Improving Survey Questions: Design and
Evaluation (Fowler)
Journal articles for Class 1 as
listed on syllabus
PM832 A1: Operations
Management in Health Care
No
No Textbook
No
PM833 A1: Health Economics
No
Health Economics: Theories, Insights, and Industry Studies
(Santerre, Neun)
No
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
PM834 A1: Health Regulation
and Planning
PM837 A1: Evaluating Health
Care Quality
PM840 A1: Analysis of Current
Health Policy Issues
PM850 A1: Organizing for
Health System Change
No
No Textbook
Yes
No Textbook
Instructor will email class via
Blackboard
Class 1 Readings
No
No Textbook
Will be emailed to class
Yes
No Textbook
Class 1 Readings
SB710 A1: Nutrition and Public
Health
SB721 A1: Social and
Behavioral Sciences for Public
Health
SB721 B1: Social and
Behavioral Sciences for Public
Health
No
Eat, Drink & Be Healthy (Willett)
No
Yes
No Textbook
Class 1 Readings
Yes
No Textbook
No
SB721 C1: Social and
Behavioral Sciences for Public
Health
Yes
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our
Decisions (Ariely)
No
SB721 D1: Social and
Behavioral Sciences for Public
Health
Yes
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our
Decisions (Ariely)
No
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Course Reader & Book Document, Fall 2012
SB800 A1: The Obesity
Epidemic: Moving from
Individual and Environmental
and Policy Approaches for
Promoting Physical Activity
and Healthy Eating
Yes
Handbook of Obesity Prevention: A Resource for Health
Class 1 Readings
Professionals (Kumanyika & Brownson) NOTE: the book is
available as an e-book on the BU library website. The link is:
http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/content/r66q21/
If a hard copy is desired, a student can also purchase the book
from the above website for $24.95.
SB818 A1: Qualitative
Research Methods
No
Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods (Quinn Patton)
SB820 A1: Assessment and
Planning for Health Promotion
No
No Textbook
SB821 A1: Intervention
Strategies for Health
Promotion
SB822 A1: Quantitative
Methods for Program
Evaluation
SB860 A1: Strategies for Public
Health Advocacy
No
Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention
Mapping Approach (Bartholomew)
No
No
The Practice of Health Program Evaluation (Grembowski)
No
No
Check Blackboard Site
No
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In Textbook: Chapter 1,
Chapter 2, Chapter 3 (pp.9195); In Reader: Borman &
LeCompte
No