Public Health U

This module introduces core concepts related to public health and postgraduate education. At the end of this course, students will have developed an understanding of the population approach and the evolution of Public Health agencies and gained critical thinking, systems thinking, and academic writing skills, all based on an Evidence-Based approach.

This is a review course designed to refresh students' previous in-depth coursework and cover the basic public health competencies: biostatistics, epidemiology, program planning, health promotion (behavior change & health communication), environmental health (with occupational health), disparities, inequities, and cultural competence, leadership & management, health policy, public health ethics & professionalism, research methods, and systems approaches to public health.  Each topic will cover the competencies associated with the content of a full course in that domain. This course will remind the student of the basic principles and definitions within that competency and show how each is an essential component of public health practice. The culminating final assignment will test the student's ability to apply each of the domain learning to a representative public health problem in an integrated and coherent narrative.

Andres Cortez

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This area is available for students enrolled on any of the modules to discuss common issues or problems faced. You can use the Student Discussion Forum here to share any thoughts with fellow students. There are also various items of interest posted on the site.

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'Tutors Corner' for discussions and exchange of experiences amongst the tutors.

Each of the course modules in Peoples-uni has a team of tutors who act as online facilitators to guide the students through the module and stimulate discussion and the exchange of experiences. This is an essential part of the educational process. This guide is to provide some practical information about the role and to help the online facilitators achieve consistency of approach within and between course modules, focussing on how to moderate online discussions that promote learning.

Online facility for the Education Committee to 'meet'

Online facility for the Education Committee and student reps to 'meet'.

The focus of the module will be on the evaluation of a range of policy and programmatic interventions, all of which have the ambition of improving health outcomes. Interventions may be preventive, curative, behavioural, inter-sectoral interventions (that may simultaneously focus on multiple sectors including, for example, improved water, health services, and education), and also routine health services, such as primary health care.

The focus of the module will be on the evaluation of a range of policy and programmatic interventions, all of which have the ambition of improving health outcomes. Interventions may be preventive, curative, behavioural, inter-sectoral interventions (that may simultaneously focus on multiple sectors including, for example, improved water, health services, and education), and also routine health services, such as primary health care.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This module in Public Health Ethics aims to provide students with the skills needed to think and act ethically in Public Health through introducing ethical theory and frameworks. Ethical issues general to public health provision will be explored in order to enable students to apply ethical concepts and theories to a range of contemporary debates.

This module aims to provide information to understand key nutrition issues. Furthermore, integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet vulnerable communities' health and nutrition needs in developing country settings.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This module in Public Health Ethics aims to provide students with the skills needed to think and act ethically in Public Health through introducing ethical theory and frameworks. Ethical issues general to public health provision will be explored in order to enable students to apply ethical concepts and theories to a range of contemporary debates.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

This module covers the burden of illness and causes of CVD and Diabetes, and the evidence base and methods of planing interventions to reduce the growing burden on developing country populations.

The focus of the module will be on the evaluation of a range of policy and programmatic interventions, all of which have the ambition of improving health outcomes. Interventions may be preventive, curative, behavioural, inter-sectoral interventions (that may simultaneously focus on multiple sectors including, for example, improved water, health services, and education), and also routine health services, such as primary health care.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This module in Public Health Ethics aims to provide students with the skills needed to think and act ethically in Public Health through introducing ethical theory and frameworks. Ethical issues general to public health provision will be explored in order to enable students to apply ethical concepts and theories to a range of contemporary debates.

This module in Public Health Ethics aims to provide students with the skills needed to think and act ethically in Public Health through introducing ethical theory and frameworks. Ethical issues general to public health provision will be explored in order to enable students to apply ethical concepts and theories to a range of contemporary debates.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

Evidence Based Practice is cited as the basis of all our public health and healthcare decisions, but what does that mean in practice? How do we know which evidence to use? When there is so much research evidence, why is there still so much controversy over the best course of public health action? The module covers how to formulate an answerable question, access, appraise, and use the evidence on a public health issue.

Maternal morbidity and mortality remain major problems in many parts of the world – one of the most important threats to Public Health. The purpose of the course module is to provide the people who may be able to help tackle the problem with the knowledge and skills to do so. We will focus on identifying the size of the problem, the causes, and the evidence base behind interventions to improve the situation. We will end by identifying ways to implement evidence based solutions in your own setting.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module in Public Health Ethics aims to provide students with the skills needed to think and act ethically in Public Health through introducing ethical theory and frameworks. Ethical issues general to public health provision will be explored in order to enable students to apply ethical concepts and theories to a range of contemporary debates.

This module in Public Health Ethics aims to provide students with the skills needed to think and act ethically in Public Health through introducing ethical theory and frameworks. Ethical issues general to public health provision will be explored in order to enable students to apply ethical concepts and theories to a range of contemporary debates.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This module aims to provide information to understand key nutrition issues. Furthermore, integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet vulnerable communities' health and nutrition needs in developing country settings.

Maternal morbidity and mortality remain major problems in many parts of the world – one of the most important threats to Public Health. The purpose of the course module is to provide the people who may be able to help tackle the problem with the knowledge and skills to do so. We will focus on identifying the size of the problem, the causes, and the evidence base behind interventions to improve the situation. We will end by identifying ways to implement evidence based solutions in your own setting.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module aims to provide information to understand key nutrition issues. Furthermore, integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet vulnerable communities' health and nutrition needs in developing country settings.

This module covers the burden of illness and causes of CVD and Diabetes, and the evidence base and methods of planing interventions to reduce the growing burden on developing country populations.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

Evidence Based Practice is cited as the basis of all our public health and healthcare decisions, but what does that mean in practice? How do we know which evidence to use? When there is so much research evidence, why is there still so much controversy over the best course of public health action? The module covers how to formulate an answerable question, access, appraise, and use the evidence on a public health issue.

The dissertation aims to enable students to synthesize the previous parts of their learning experience, build on their experience, and use skills and knowledge to develop, critically assess, and evaluate a potential solution to a locally relevant public health problem. Each student will be assigned an academic supervisor allocated according to the concentration chosen by the student and the area of expertise of the facilitators. Each student will be expected to produce a systematic literature review, a research project design, and a reflective essay.

This module addresses the art and science of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from medical and biological studies. By the end of the course, students will be able to read the results section of medical journals confidently and perform and interpret the results from frequently used statistical procedures.

This course provides an overall introduction to environmental health concepts. Topics such as regulatory controls, pollutants’ sources, fates, and impacts in environmental media (air, water, food, and soil) and occupational settings are addressed. Human hazard recognition, evaluation, and management are introduced in terms of toxicology, epidemiology, exposure assessment, prevention, risk assessment, and emergency response.

This module addresses the public policies and best practices in development, demography, epidemiology, household finance and behavior, cost/effectiveness of treatments, financing modes, health system organization, and comparative country studies. It provides an introduction to health economics for those who want to understand the vital contribution that economics can play to the health of populations. It includes health and socio-economic development, health care financing, economic evaluation in health care systems, and priority setting in health.

The module focuses on identifying the key concepts and theories underlying health promotion practice, its relevance to the social determinants of health, and the implementation process of promoting health, and ends by identifying ways to implement a Health Promotion plan in your own setting.

This module addresses the implementation of recommendations to reduce health inequalities and increases awareness about global/regional health inequities and social determinants of health. The module includes an understanding of the social determinants of health, measuring inequity, and applying and planning interventions to reduce inequity in the context of international efforts.

This module introduces the concepts underlying epidemiology and the main methods employed by the discipline. On completing the module, students should understand why epidemiology underpins much of the efforts of those whose work involves promoting population health and providing health services. Students will also learn to approach published material based on epidemiological methods more critically and informedly.

Despite a focus on the control of communicable diseases in developing countries in the past, it is now apparent that non-communicable diseases have crept up on these populations and created a major threat. The module aims to help practitioners understand the size of this threat and its causes and develop policies to reduce the growing burden on developing country populations. Learning from this module will help students appreciate the evidence base required to plan interventions to reduce the threat from these conditions.

This module provides an introduction to aspects of public health that are important for creating policies that positively impact population health. It includes an understanding of public health and the determinants of health, how to assess the health of the public, methods of intervention, how to use evidence in public health policy-making, and how to evaluate the implementation of health policy from a public health perspective.

This module aims to provide information to understand key nutrition issues. Furthermore, integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet vulnerable communities' health and nutrition needs in developing country settings.

This module aims to provide information to enable you to understand key nutrition issues and then integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet the health and nutrition needs of vulnerable communities in your setting.

This module covers the burden of illness and causes of CVD and Diabetes, and the evidence base and methods of planing interventions to reduce the growing burden on developing country populations.

The purpose of this module is: a) To enable you to read most of the relevant literature with understanding of the statistical content. b) To permit you to carry out some analysis of uni-variate and bi-variate data. And c) to prepare you for more complex forms of statistical analysis if you wish. As most of the calculations are done by computer the only pre-requisite knowledge is an understanding of simple arithmetic.

This module covers some key concepts of communicable disease transmission, surveillance and control. Topics include understanding the Public Health aspects of communicable disease, such as transmission, surveillance of diseases of public health importance in a given setting, application and design of control programmes, the epidemiology of common diseases, immunisation, and responding to an outbreak.

All communities are vulnerable to disaster and following the event would endeavour to limit the damage from it. Assessing and reducing the risks before a disaster occurs is as important as responding to it and dealing with the consequences; both need to be professional to be effective. This module has been developed to introduce you to the concepts and processes of emergency planning for and management of disasters within a developing world context.

The focus of the module will be on the evaluation of a range of policy and programmatic interventions, all of which have the ambition of improving health outcomes. Interventions may be preventive, curative, behavioural, inter-sectoral interventions (that may simultaneously focus on multiple sectors including, for example, improved water, health services, and education), and also routine health services, such as primary health care.

Evidence Based Practice is cited as the basis of all our public health and healthcare decisions, but what does that mean in practice? How do we know which evidence to use? When there is so much research evidence, why is there still so much controversy over the best course of public health action? The module covers how to formulate an answerable question, access, appraise, and use the evidence on a public health issue.

This module provides an introduction to health economics for those who want to understand the contribution of economics in the health of populations. It is oriented towards achieving the goal of Universal Health Care (UHC). The topics include sharing how economics plays a major role in healthcare, the relationship between health and socioeconomic development, healthcare financing and the road to UHC, economic evaluation in health care, and priority setting in health systems.

The implementation of the recommendations of the WHO in relation to Inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health on a global or regional scale requires key stakeholders to become aware and knowledgeable about the issues. It is therefore opportune to offer a basic course that is dedicated to global / regional health inequities and social determinants of health.

This module introduces the concepts underlying epidemiology and the main methods employed by the discipline. On completing the module students should have a good grasp of why epidemiology underpins much of the effort of those charged with promoting the health of populations and for providing services to meet health-related needs. Also, students should be beginning to approach published material based on epidemiological methods more critically. Epidemiological concepts and methods are drawn upon in the other modules of the Peoples-uni course. Understanding these is essential to getting the best out of the other course units. Thus, if you are not acquainted with some epidemiology from elsewhere you should consider doing this module (and maybe Biostatistics) early on in your association with the Peoples-uni.  

Maternal morbidity and mortality remain major problems in many parts of the world – one of the most important threats to Public Health. The purpose of the course module is to provide the people who may be able to help tackle the problem with the knowledge and skills to do so. We will focus on identifying the size of the problem, the causes, and the evidence base behind interventions to improve the situation. We will end by identifying ways to implement evidence based solutions in your own setting.

The purpose of this module is: a) To enable you to read most of the relevant literature with understanding of the statistical content. b) To permit you to carry out some analysis of uni-variate and bi-variate data. And c) to prepare you for more complex forms of statistical analysis if you wish. As most of the calculations are done by computer the only pre-requisite knowledge is an understanding of simple arithmetic.

This module covers some key concepts of communicable disease transmission, surveillance and control. Topics include understanding the Public Health aspects of communicable disease, such as transmission, surveillance of diseases of public health importance in a given setting, application and design of control programmes, the epidemiology of common diseases, immunisation, and responding to an outbreak.

The focus of the module will be on the evaluation of a range of policy and programmatic interventions, all of which have the ambition of improving health outcomes. Interventions may be preventive, curative, behavioural, inter-sectoral interventions (that may simultaneously focus on multiple sectors including, for example, improved water, health services, and education), and also routine health services, such as primary health care.

Evidence Based Practice is cited as the basis of all our public health and healthcare decisions, but what does that mean in practice? How do we know which evidence to use? When there is so much research evidence, why is there still so much controversy over the best course of public health action? The module covers how to formulate an answerable question, access, appraise, and use the evidence on a public health issue.

This course unit is designed to explore the concepts and theories, values and principles, and key strategies that underpin the discipline of health promotion. The unit then explores the planning and implementation process required for a health promotion intervention, and ends with the design of a health promotion plan

This module introduces the concepts underlying epidemiology and the main methods employed by the discipline. On completing the module students should have a good grasp of why epidemiology underpins much of the effort of those charged with promoting the health of populations and for providing services to meet health-related needs. Also, students should be beginning to approach published material based on epidemiological methods more critically. Epidemiological concepts and methods are drawn upon in the other modules of the Peoples-uni course. Understanding these is essential to getting the best out of the other course units. Thus, if you are not acquainted with some epidemiology from elsewhere you should consider doing this module (and maybe Biostatistics) early on in your association with the Peoples-uni.  

The final product of the Dissertation will be a report in which students are able to demonstrate an ability to apply critically reviewed evidence to a locally relevant public health problem. This will require a review and synthesis of the evidence, leading to a proposal for action to improve the health of a population, and a reflection on how the course has contributed to the proposal and to their own professional practice.

Maternal morbidity and mortality remain major problems in many parts of the world – one of the most important threats to Public Health. The purpose of the course module is to provide the people who may be able to help tackle the problem with the knowledge and skills to do so. We will focus on identifying the size of the problem, the causes, and the evidence base behind interventions to improve the situation. We will end by identifying ways to implement evidence based solutions in your own setting.

Laurie Elit

This module covers the burden of illness and causes of CVD and Diabetes, and the evidence base and methods of planing interventions to reduce the growing burden on developing country populations.

This module aims to provide information to enable you to understand key nutrition issues and then integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet the health and nutrition needs of vulnerable communities in your setting.

This module covers some key concepts of communicable disease transmission, surveillance and control. Topics include understanding the Public Health aspects of communicable disease, such as transmission, surveillance of diseases of public health importance in a given setting, application and design of control programmes, the epidemiology of common diseases, immunisation, and responding to an outbreak.

Saran Shantikumar

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The purpose of this module is: a) To enable you to read most of the relevant literature with understanding of the statistical content. b) To permit you to carry out some analysis of uni-variate and bi-variate data. And c) to prepare you for more complex forms of statistical analysis if you wish. As most of the calculations are done by computer the only pre-requisite knowledge is an understanding of simple arithmetic.

Virginia Plummer

+4

All communities are vulnerable to disaster and following the event would endeavour to limit the damage from it. Assessing and reducing the risks before a disaster occurs is as important as responding to it and dealing with the consequences; both need to be professional to be effective. This module has been developed to introduce you to the concepts and processes of emergency planning for and management of disasters within a developing world context.

Steve Fabricant

+5

This module provides an introduction to health economics for those who want to understand the contribution of economics in the health of populations. It is oriented towards achieving the goal of Universal Health Care (UHC). The topics include sharing how economics plays a major role in healthcare, the relationship between health and socioeconomic development, healthcare financing and the road to UHC, economic evaluation in health care, and priority setting in health systems.

This module provides an introduction to health economics for those who want to understand the contribution of economics in the health of populations. It is oriented towards achieving the goal of Universal Health Care (UHC). The topics include sharing how economics plays a major role in healthcare, the relationship between health and socioeconomic development, healthcare financing and the road to UHC, economic evaluation in health care, and priority setting in health systems.

This module covers some key concepts of communicable disease transmission, surveillance and control. Topics include understanding the Public Health aspects of communicable diseaseincluding transmission, surveillance of diseases of public health importance in a given setting, application and design of control programmes, the epidemiology of common diseases, immunisation, and responding to an outbreak. NB:-To all the developers, please continue to work on the developing section on Communicable Disease (click here).