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.
This course is part of the Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization
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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
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome to the course and Module 1: Health Needs Assessment
Welcome to Module Two: Health Intelligence
Welcome to Module Three: Evaluation in Public Health
Welcome to Module 4: Analysis in Public Health
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TOP REVIEWS FROM FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE: THE PUBLIC HEALTH TOOLKIT
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A really good grounding in the analysis and evaluation. The final assignment is a really good capstone activity to bring the ideas together.
This is a great course with clear explanation and understanding of the essential toolkit require to analyse through the public health's perspective !
I find it exceptional as it is not very easy or too hard-encouraging learners to think & engage.
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