Course Description and Pre-requested:

 Those entering the public health workforce face the challenges and opportunities posed by a complex array of contemporary health issues: global warming; infectious diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola, HIV, and the Zika virus; the continuing growth of opioid, vaping, and mass shooting epidemics; chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer; and behavioral health conditions. The principles and practices of public health program planning, implementation, and evaluation to control these public health challenges (at the individual, community, state, national, and international levels) are the focus of this course.

 This course addresses how to create behavioral, environmental, and policy changes at the population level. We hope that the course helps practitioners, researchers, and policymakers alike address the subtle complexities inherent in effective planning, implementation, and evaluation to improve community and population health.

 We elaborate on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model since it has been effectively applied throughout the world to address a broad range of health issues: risk factors like tobacco and lack of exercise; social determinants of health such as lack of access to transportation and safe housing; major disease challenges like heart disease and guinea worm disease; and holistic health outcomes as well. Therefore, it will broaden the perspective from personal and proximal “risk factors” to “distal social determinants of health”.

 There is a course requirement that is Population and Family Health I (KUI: 673).

Expected Outcomes:

 Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the model for population health planning, implementation, and evaluation,
• Examine participation and community engagement in planning,
• Describe social assessment regarding quality of life in population health, behavioral and environmental factors, and predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors,
• Appraise health program and policy development on intervention, implementation, and evaluation strategies,
• Demonstrate applications of PRECEDE-PROCEED in specific settings: community, occupational, school, health care, and communication technology. 

Each student also should develop proficiency in scientific report writing and critique on program planning, implementation, and evaluation. An example is the ability to criticize and assess research published in population and reproductive health journals for program planning and evaluation. 

The instructor will assign the exercises at the end of each session for group discussion during the tutorial. Exercises reinforce quantitative and qualitative skills and specific content areas.

They may be completed as written assignments or in-class discussions. Depending on the topic of the course, the instructor may elect to assign all questions or a subset of the questions.