Institution: Mid-America PHTC

Course Description: After completing PH 415, learners will be proficient in identifying and explaining how various organizations, positions, and roles contribute to carrying out public health's core functions and essential services.

Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

•  explaining the "governmental presence in health" concept
•  identifying and describing public health's core functions and essential services
•  discussing how public health core functions are operationalized in practice
•  discussing how community health improvement processes are implemented in community settings
•  explaining approaches to assess the extent to which public health's core functions and essential services are being carried out in a community
•  understanding how continuous quality improvement principles can be applied to pubic health practice
•  describing approaches to improving state-local public health systems

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.