Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit at Coursera Overview
Duration | 14 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course |
Credential | Certificate |
Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit at Coursera 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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