PH 417: Public Health Interventions

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Institution: Mid-America PHTC

Course Description: After completing PH 417, learners will be proficient in applying principles derived from the basic public health sciences to planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions.

Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

  •   listing general categories of public health programs and services
  •   describing the difference between community prevention and clinical preventive services
  •   describing the major steps in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a public health program
  •   describing how and when planning and evaluation occur during the life of a program
  •   defining and developing outcome, impact, and process objectives
  •   describing the relationships among activities, process measures, impact measures, and outcome measures in the evaluation of a program
  •   explaining the difference between doing things right and doing the right things within the context of a public health intervention

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.