Public Health Certificate Program

Offered byUC Davis

Public Health Certificate Program
at
UC Davis
Overview

Duration	12 months
Total fee	₹8.65 Lakh
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Public Health Certificate Program
at
UC Davis
Highlights

Earn a certificate from UC Davis

Public Health Certificate Program
at
UC Davis
Course details

Who should do this course?

This public health online certificate is designed to help working professionals like medical and health services managers, health education specialists and community health workers develop or increase their expertise in the field

What are the course deliverables?

Explain and describe basic epidemiologic concepts and approaches to epidemiologic research using examples from human medicine

Understand theories and strategies of health behavior change at the individual, group, community and environmental levels

Apply the transtheoretical model, social network theory and social marketing theory to solve common public health problems

Explain the structure and function of public and private medical care

Describe trends in medical spending, predictors of patient use, causes of death, managed care and costs of technology

Apply evaluation methods and measures to public health interventions

Employ statistical methodology to health care data

More about this course

The Public Health Certificate Program, developed in partnership with the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, provides advanced training and foundational public health knowledge to advance in your career or gain a competitive advantage to be accepted into public health degree programs

This public health program covers core topics in public health science, including biostatistics, epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, and health systems management

Gain theoretical knowledge of public health concepts around social determinants of health, as well as applicable skills for epidemiological investigations, navigating the U.S. healthcare system and working with biostatistics to measure the burden of diseases, illnesses and injuries

Public Health Certificate Program
at
UC Davis
Curriculum

Epidemiology for Health Professionals

Explain what epidemiology is and how it relates to other disciplines.

Explain and be able to utilize frequently used terms and methods of epidemiology

List major causes and trends of morbidity and mortality in California, the U.S. and globally

Analyze quantitative data for measures of disease occurrence, mortality, standardization of disease and mortality rates, measures of effect, summary measures of effect, screening and diagnostic testing accuracy and performance

Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health

Understand the social, political and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and health inequities

Gain familiarity with fundamental canonical theories, concepts and models from social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health research and practice

Discover how structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and systemic levels

Introduction to Health Science Statistics

Explain the role of evidence for public health research, policy or practice.

Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context

Analyze quantitative data using biostatistics and statistics software

Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice

Health Services Administration

Describe the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health and regulatory systems across national and international settings

Explain and apply the roles of planning, directing, controlling and organizing for managers

Become familiar with the basic principles and tools of budget and resource management