Includes identifying, collecting and utilizing appropriate demographic and health-related data as a foundation for addressing health problems in a responsive and meaningful way. Students select a real world health problem or population to be the focus of assessment projects during the semester. Introduces research and evaluation methods appropriate to community health programs and issues. Community health strategies are studied from the dual programs and issues. Building on experiences in previous courses in the program sequence, this course focuses on the planning and implementation of specific health programs to meet identified needs and professional standards utilizing a variety of theory-based intervention strategies.
Students develop specific skins while delivering actual programs to selected populations.
This course focuses on the application of community health skills in community and organizational settings. Consultation, training, group process and organizational and community development concepts and skills are emphasized. Includes the concepts and methods of social and behavioral sciences relevant to the identification and solution of public health problems, relating social, cultural, economic and environmental factors as the bases upon which public health has been developed at the various governmental and community levels. This course offers students opportunities to interact with faculty, alumni, preceptors, and health professionals in the context of continuing education workshops about important, timely, and desirable public health topics. Students select 30 hours of continuing education seminars over the duration of the course in consultation with their academic advisors.