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14 hours

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Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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  • 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.

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Curriculum

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

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    May 25, 2024
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