Principles of Public Health ("PH 101")
OVERVIEW
Description:
This course consists of 12 tutorials that provide an overview of the most important issues and topics related to public health departments and public health practice. Developed as a basic introduction for the public health workforce, each tutorial takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. A Spanish version of PH 101 is also available.
Length: Approximately 3-4 hours
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, a participant will be able to:
- Articulate the core concept of public health and list three examples of public health issues, past and/or present.
- Describe the primary ways in which health is measured in populations as well as major determinants of individual health, and how these factors affect the health of populations.
- Identify health disparities, factors that contribute to them, and the role of the public health workforce in helping to reduce disparities in health.
- Recognize basic concepts and factors surrounding culture and health, and the impact of cultural factors on public health programs.
- Describe the public health infrastructure, the core functions and essential services of public health, evaluation in public health, and community needs assessment.
Target Audience:
- Allied health professionals
- Nurses (public health nurse)
- Public health staff-general
- Rural Public Health Professionals
- State or local public health workers
More Info:
Training Topics:
- Public Health: Definition and History: Provides a historical overview of the public health model and outlines the five fields of public health.
- Health Status and Determinants of Health: Describes the primary ways health is measured in populations, the major determinants of individual health, and how these factors affect the health of populations.
- Health Disparities: Summarizes differences in the rates of illness and disease that exist among specific populations and the role of public health in helping to reduce these disparities.
- Culture and Health: Explains the impact of cultural factors on health and the importance of providing culturally competent services and care.
- Public Health Programs and Infrastructure: Provides an analysis of the key trends in U.S. health expenditures and describes the different elements that comprise the public health infrastructure.
- Core Functions and Essential Services: Reviews the mission of public health and how to relate its core functions and essential services to the goals of Healthy People 2010,.
- Public Health Law: Provides a conceptual framework of the role of public health as it relates to the three branches of government and the four direct sources of law.
- Environmental Health: Overviews the role of the six environmental health divisions in place to address environmental health hazards.
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology: Outlines the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics and how they are used to understand and explain public health issues and events.
- Evaluation: Describes basic methods and steps used in an evaluation and why evaluation is important to the public health workforce.
- Community Needs Assessment: Overviews five steps involved in conducting a community needs assessment to help meet the health needs of a community.
- Future Challenges of Public Health: Summarizes the current and future challenges of public health and how these health outcomes can be addressed through programs, education, and policy.
Competencies:
Domain 4: Cultural Competency Skills
Domain 6: Basic Public Health Sciences Skills
Presenters:
This is a collaborative training authored by various PPHTC faculty and staff. It is presented by PPHTC staff.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
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