Western Medicine

Public Health in America: A Study of the U.S. Healthcare System

Instructor:     Margo De Leaver, M.D., MATCM

Margo De Leaver earned her medical degree from State University of New York at Buffalo. She completed her internship in Pediatrics at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and her two-year residency in Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. She has always explored complementary care and the integration of Eastern and Western medicines with a special emphasis on diet and prevention. She completed the Master's program in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica, studied at Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is now part of Yo San's Western Medicine faculty.

Course Includes:  ·    Thirteen audio lectures on CD

                             ·    Lecture outline

                             ·    PowerPoint presentations (on paper) for each lecture

Concerned with community, institutions of Public Health assess the health of a population, diagnose problems, look for causes of problems, devise strategies to prevent or cure them, and focus on the prevention of death and disability. Public Health agencies assure that services needed for the protection of public health are available to everyone.

Lecture 1:     Introduction to Public Health: What is Public Health?

Lecture 2:     Public Health Law

Lecture 3:     Epidemiology: What Is It?

Lecture 4:     Infectious Diseases

Lecture 5:     Maternal and Child Health

Lecture 6:     National Healthcare: Environment and Health

Lecture 7:     Public Health and Aging in the 21^st Century

Lecture 8:     Preventive Nutrition, Diet, Obesity and Exercise

Lecture 9:     Mental Health in the Public Health System

Lecture 10:   Empowering People and Communities

Lecture 11:   Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty

Lecture 12:   Over-Population/Population Ecology

Lecture 13:   Financing Healthcare in the Future

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