Institution: South Central Public Health Training Center

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles and core elements of public health and trace its evolution.  The course reviews the public health system and its roles and responsibilities.  It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies.  Lastly, participants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and ones that are on the horizon.

Objectives:

• Describe early movements that influenced public health and the key individuals
• Describe the different eras of public health from 1800-2000
• Describe successes/achievements in public health history
• Identify the ethics and values that make public health a unique profession
• Describe the legal basis for public health in America
• Identify different definitions of health - including physical, mental, and social well-being
• Describe factors that influence health
• List the ten leading causes of death and the actual causes of death
• Describe health measurement activities such as Healthy People 2010
• Describe the difference between population-based public health and personal health services
• Identify strategies to incorporate additional essential services into the participant's program area
• Describe the National Public Health Performance Standards Program and it's impact on public health practice
• Describe how the local, state, and federal levels of government impact health
• Describe the importance of collaborations and coalitions, and the basic steps in coalitgion development
• Describe the community planning model in public health - Mobilizing Action through Planning and Partnerships
• Identify the eight competency domains for public health workers
• Understand the relationship between core competencies for public health workers and the essential services
• Identify strategies to strengthen individual competencies
• Identify key questions professionals ask in creating a new future
• Identify major challenges facing the public health system in your communities
• Identify new or changed roles for your programs and for yourselves based on this course

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Resource Format: Online course

Time Requirement: 4 hours

More Information: More information is available at http://lms.southcentralpartnership.org/scphp?productID=prdct000000000001018

or by contacting Brandi Horn at trdirect@tulane.edu or (504) 988-1342.