EASTERN CONECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
HPE209 – utrition and Public Health (Online)
Fal 209 – 3 credits
Dorothy Philips, APRN, MS, MPH
Lecturer, Department of Health and Physical Education


How to reach me:
I am available nearly every day by e-mail or phone in my campus ofice at the Health Service.
The best way to reach me is through the mail tol in Blackboard Vista.
Ofice: Ro 102, Health Service
Phone: 465-5263
Hours: By apointment
E-mail: philipsd@easternct.edu

Course Description:
In this course we wil lok at curent isues in nutrition and their impact on public health.
We wil examine a number of curent controversies, and the factors that influence
stakeholders’ positions. We wil maintain a focus on population-based nutrition as oposed
to personal, individual health and nutrition. We wil also examine how isues and trends in
fod production, fod suply, and fod safety afect public health.

Course Introduction:
“Tel me what you eat and I wil tel you what you are.” Anthelme Brilat-Savarin, 1826

We are what we eat. We think about this on a personal level as fod literaly enters our
bodies and becomes a part of us. But this statement also fits when we lok at the health and
wel-being of populations, the larger unit of observation and analysis when we talk about
public health. The key to understanding this public health context of nutrition is the ability
to shift your perspective from personal health to this larger context.

Course Objectives:
As an informed citizen, you ned to know how best to fed yourself and your family to
promote optial health. As a citizen informed in nutrition from the population
perspective, you ned to understand how the nutrition of groups of people around you
influence the health of your comunity, state, nation, and the world. The way we eat is tied
not only to the health of the world’s population, but the health of our planet as wel.

Specificaly, by the end of this course, you should be able to:
• Aply basic principles of public health
• Demonstrate working knowledge of nutrition basics
• Critique research methods used to ases the nutrition of populations
• Evaluate the relationship betwen diet and disease in population groups
• Describe the role and influence of public health policy on the nutrition of specific
population groups
• Describe population-based isues afecting hunger, fod insecurity, and fod distribution
• Analyze efects of advertising and marketing on fod consumption paterns
• Identify isues in fod safety and criticaly analyze potential solutions
• Analyze major trends in fod production and their efects on public health

My goals are that you wil learn where your fod comes from, and that you wil begin to
apreciate how important public health is in your life—how your health is conected with the
health of others.

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