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.
Course Coordinator: Prof. Siswanto Agus Wilopo, SU, M.Sc., Sc.D.
Clinical
Epidemiologist, Biostatistician, and Demographer of the Department of Public
Health, Faculty of
Medicine, Gadjah Mada
University
Textbooks or Main Reading Materials:
Fielding,
J.E., Kreuter, M.W., Peterson, D.V., Ottoson, J.M., Gielen, A.C., & Green,
L.W. (2022). Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation:
Creating Behavioral, Environmental, and Policy Change. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press., https://doi.org/10.1353/book.100161.
UNDP (2009). Handbook on planning,
Monitoring, and evaluating for development results. New York: UNDP.
Available at: http://web.undp.org/evaluation/handbook/documents/english/pme-handbook.pdf
NMAC
(2012). Strategic Planning. Washington, DC: NMAC.
NMAC
(2012). Program Evaluation. Washington, DC: NMAC.
Lecture Notes: Copies
of the lecture notes (PowerPoint) will be posted on the lecture web.
Handouts: Copies
of course materials and homework can be obtained from the secretariat.
Software: None
Assignment and Homework
Assignments
and homework will be given to each student and group. The topic of each student
and group will be given by the instructor regarding planning, implementation,
and evaluation. Individual students
should make paper on their own and paper representing group work. It is highly
recommended that students submit their topic no more than 2 weeks after class
ends. The requirements of the paper include:
- 15
to 20 pages (not including Title and Works Cited pages)
- Harvard
Style; including one half-spaced, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman font, size 12,
- Submitted
as a WORD file,
- At
least five different references, cites, or quotes from outside the text; with
proper citing formats,
- At
least five different references or quotes from the text (no more than three
from the Internet); with proper citing formats.
The topic of each student and group will
be distributed in the middle of the semester.
Grading: Individual
paper 60%,
Group
paper : 40%
Web
site/Gamel: We will post
homework assignments and other course materials on a course website. The
address is: