Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit
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Approx. 14 hours to complete
Course Summary
Learn the core components of public health and strategies for promoting health through the lens of a public health professional.Key Learning Points
- Understand the importance of public health and the role of public health professionals in promoting health
- Learn about the core components of public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, and health policy
- Explore strategies for promoting health and preventing disease through public health interventions
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- USA: $46,000 - $71,000
- India: ₹285,000 - ₹1,000,000
- Spain: €20,000 - €35,000
- USA: $46,000 - $71,000
- India: ₹285,000 - ₹1,000,000
- Spain: €20,000 - €35,000
- USA: $49,000 - $88,000
- India: ₹350,000 - ₹1,200,000
- Spain: €25,000 - €40,000
- USA: $46,000 - $71,000
- India: ₹285,000 - ₹1,000,000
- Spain: €20,000 - €35,000
- USA: $49,000 - $88,000
- India: ₹350,000 - ₹1,200,000
- Spain: €25,000 - €40,000
- USA: $70,000 - $130,000
- India: ₹600,000 - ₹2,000,000
- Spain: €35,000 - €60,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the core components of public health
- Learn about strategies for promoting health and preventing disease through public health interventions
- Gain insight into the role of public health professionals in promoting health
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic knowledge of biology and statistics
- Access to a computer and internet connection
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Online self-paced
- Video lectures
- Quizzes and assignments
Similar Courses
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Public Health Professor at George Washington University
Related Books
Description
The Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit builds on public health thinking (introduced in the previous course) and introduces a variety of core public health approaches (the toolkit) to conceptualising problems, conducting analysis and bringing forward recommendations. In this course we cover health needs assessment, evaluation and public health intelligence-approaches.
Knowledge
- Use the principles which underpin public health as a discipline in order to articulate public health objectives
- Apply appropriate health protection, health improvement and disease prevention interventions in order to improve public health programmes
Outline
- Welcome to the course and Module 1: Health Needs Assessment
- Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder
- Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo
- Introductory video and welcome
- Bradshaw's taxonomy of need
- What is health needs assessment?
- Who uses health needs assessment?
- Example 1: A local health and wellbeing needs assessment
- Example 2: A national healthcare needs assessment
- Conclusion
- Introducing health impact assessment
- Introducing Health Equity Audit
- About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team
- How to be successful in this course
- Grading policy
- Glossary
- Examples of local and national HNAs
- Examples of best practice in health needs assessment
- E-tivity: Examples of health impact assessment
- E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment
- Scoping in health impact assessment
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment
- Classifying need using Bradshaw's taxonomy
- Health Needs Assessment
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment
- Welcome to Module Two: Health Intelligence
- The public health intelligence cycle
- Routinely collected data and metadata
- Non-routinely collected data (surveys and validated instruments)
- Non-routinely collected data (bespoke survey design and governance)
- Practitioner interview: Delivering a health needs assessment
- Conclusion
- Open access data repositories (PHE Fingertips)
- Open access data repositories (Gapminder and GHDx)
- E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions
- Classifying data, information and intelligence
- Pros and cons of routinely and non-routinely collected data
- Prioritising health needs and interventions
- Welcome to Module Three: Evaluation in Public Health
- Introducing evaluation in public health
- Types of evaluation: Outcome evaluation
- Types of evaluation: Process and formative evaluation
- Measuring quality in health care
- The Donabedian approach to evaluation
- The Logical Framework approach (the Logframe)
- Practitioner interview: Evaluation in practice
- Conclusion
- Using indicators in performance monitoring and management
- Indicators of quality and performance
- Classifying indicators using Donabedian
- Welcome to Module 4: Analysis in Public Health
- Getting started in analysis
- Getting started in analysis (Double Diamond Method)
- Practitioner Interview: Briefings in practice
- Conclusion
- E-tivity: Public health analysis
- Public health analysis
Summary of User Reviews
Discover the essentials of public health with The Public Health Toolkit course on Coursera. Students praise the course for its engaging content and interactive learning experience.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
engaging contentPros from User Reviews
- Interactive learning experience
- Comprehensive coverage of public health essentials
- Engaging and informative lectures
- Easy to navigate platform
Cons from User Reviews
- Some technical issues with videos and quizzes
- Limited opportunities for peer interaction
- No certificate of completion for audit learners
Dr Richard J Pinder
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