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411: What is Public Health?

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Institution: Mid-America PHTC

Course Description: After completing PH 411, learners will be proficient in describing what public health is, including its unique and important features, to general audiences.  

Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

  •  articulating several different definitions of public health
  •  describing the origins and content of public heath responses over history
  •  tracing the development of the public health system in the U.S.
  •  broadly characterizing the contributions and value of public health
  •  describing the role and responsibilities of public health professionals in disaster preparedness and response
  •  identifying 3 or more distinguishing features of public health
  •  describing public health as a system with inputs, processes, outputs, and results, including the role of core functions and essential public health services in the public health system
  •  identifying 5 or more Internet web sites that provide useful information on the U.S. public health system This course involves several learning activities; review the Introduction page for detailed instructions.

Prerequisites: None.

Target Audience: Public health professionals and students

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 1 hour

More Information: More information is available at http://publichealthlearning.com/ or by contacting Guddi Kapadia at phlearning@cade.uic.edu or (312) 355-1144.