Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach
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Duration | 13 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Credential | Certificate |
Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach at Coursera Highlights
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- Course 1 of 4 in the Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 13 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach at Coursera Course details
- The Public Health Approach course is the first instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive activities, learners will be immersed in the world of public health practice.
- Designed for those new to the discipline, over four modules (intended for four weeks of learning), learners will become familiar with the scope, origins, ethics, principles and paradigms of public health practice. But there is also important foundational content for those coming from more experienced practitioner backgrounds. The 'Public Health Approach' is a phrase that is used widely to describe an up-stream, preventive, values-driven and evidence-based approach to improving population health. By the end of this course, learners will be confident with identifying and describing a wide range of public health challenges using the language and reference points of the public health profession.
- The subsequent courses require the knowledge from this course, as learners will be introduced to the public health toolkit of health needs assessment and evaluation, before taking deeper dives into behaviour change and health protection.
Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to the course and Module 1: The public health approach
Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder
Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo
Meet the Team (Optional): Katharine Collet
Meet the Team (Optional): Talia Boshari
Meet the Team (Optional): Carolyn Sharpe
Welcome to the course: The Public Health Approach
Breaking down public health: conceptual frameworks and the four domain model
An introduction to health improvement (domain 1)
An introduction to health protection (domain 2)
An introduction to healthcare public health (domain 3)
An introduction to health intelligence (domain 4)
Practitioner interview: the domains of public health, why are they important?
A history of public health: origins and genesis
A history of public health: the modern world
A movement for global health
International governance
What is ethics?
Ethics in public health practice
Utilitarianism in public health
An introduction to social justice
The challenge of autonomy in public health practice
Conclusion
About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team
How to be successful in this course
Grading policy
Glossary
Examples of health improvement activities
Examples of health protection activities
Examples of healthcare public health activities
Examples of health intelligence activities
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
A public health approach to ethics
Categorising public health initiatives
Ethics in public health practice
Welcome to Module 2: The wider determinants of health
Introducing the wider determinants of health
Socio-economic status (SES)
Deprivation - a spatial measure
Equity and equality
Examples and implications of inequality
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Conclusions
The Marmot Report and the social determinants of health
Causal pathways and complexity in public health practice
International comparisons of SES
How deprivation is quantified
Deprivation: masking and the limitations of inference
The wider determinants
Socioeconomic Status
Deprivation
Welcome to Module 3: Prevention and early identification
Prevention and early intervention
Resilience
Introducing screening: definition and approaches
The epidemiological implications of screening
Risks, bias and consequences of screening
The Wilson-Jungner Criteria for screening programmes
Practitioner interview: Screening in practice
The Prevention Paradox & Conclusion
Prevention and early intervention
Improving awareness and uptake of screening programmes
Screening
Welcome to Module 4: Politics and policy in public health
Political theory
Practitioner interview: Power and politics
Sources of power and types of authority in public health practice
Approaches to influencing effectively
Stakeholder mapping and influencing
Stakeholder mapping and influencing
Practitioner interview: Working with stakeholders
Conclusion to the course
Where do you stand politically?
Collaborating in public health: the example of climate change
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