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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit

Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit

This course is part of Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization

Instructor: Dr Richard J Pinder

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Flexible schedule

1 week at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

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What you'll learn

Use the principles which underpin public health as a discipline in order to articulate public health objectives
Apply appropriate health protection, health improvement and disease prevention interventions in order to improve public health programmes

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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.

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One of the core tools of public health practice is health needs assessment. In this module, you will learn how need is defined, and three key types of needs assessment: health needs assessment, health and wellbeing needs assessment, and healthcare needs assessment.

What's included

11 videos10 readings4 assignments1 app item5 discussion prompts3 plugins

11 videosTotal 43 minutes

Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder3 minutes
Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo4 minutes
Introductory video and welcome2 minutes
Bradshaw's taxonomy of need5 minutes
What is health needs assessment?6 minutes
Who uses health needs assessment?4 minutes
Example 1: A local health and wellbeing needs assessment6 minutes
Example 2: A national healthcare needs assessment5 minutes
Conclusion1 minute
Introducing health impact assessment3 minutes
Introducing Health Equity Audit3 minutes

10 readingsTotal 82 minutes

About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team5 minutes
How to be successful in this course5 minutes
Grading policy5 minutes
Glossary5 minutes
Examples of local and national HNAs15 minutes
Examples of best practice in health needs assessment10 minutes
E-tivity: Examples of health impact assessment20 minutes
E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment10 minutes
Scoping in health impact assessment2 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment5 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 60 minutes

Classifying need using Bradshaw's taxonomy20 minutes
Health Needs Assessment20 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment10 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment10 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Health Needs Assessment60 minutes

5 discussion promptsTotal 50 minutes

Nice to meet you!10 minutes
So what do we mean by need?10 minutes
Developing your own health needs assessment10 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment10 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment10 minutes

3 pluginsTotal 40 minutes

E-tivity: Examples of need15 minutes
E-tivity: Examples health needs assessment15 minutes
E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment10 minutes

In this module, you will learn about the field of public health intelligence: what it is, how it works and why it underpins almost everything that we do in public health practice. You'll hear about the public health intelligence cycle, and tools that we use to identify and contextualise data.

What's included

6 videos3 readings3 assignments2 app items1 discussion prompt4 plugins

6 videosTotal 30 minutes

The public health intelligence cycle7 minutes
Routinely collected data and metadata7 minutes
Non-routinely collected data (surveys and validated instruments)5 minutes
Non-routinely collected data (bespoke survey design and governance)4 minutes
Practitioner interview: Delivering a health needs assessment6 minutes
Conclusion2 minutes

3 readingsTotal 30 minutes

Open access data repositories (PHE Fingertips)15 minutes
Open access data repositories (Gapminder and GHDx)10 minutes
E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions5 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 45 minutes

Classifying data, information and intelligence15 minutes
Pros and cons of routinely and non-routinely collected data20 minutes
Prioritising health needs and interventions10 minutes

2 app itemsTotal 25 minutes

Classifying data, information and intelligence10 minutes
Quiz: Routinely and non-routinely collected data15 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions10 minutes

4 pluginsTotal 35 minutes

Routinely Collected Data Treasure Hun15 minutes
Routinely Collected Data Treasure Hunt15 minutes
E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and intervention3 minutes
E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions2 minutes

What is evaluation in public health? This module will introduce you to several key types of evaluation in public health, including outcome evaluation, process evaluation, and formative evaluation. You will also learn how quality is measured in health care. At the end of the module, you will have the opportunity to undertake your own evaluation, in the form of a logframe matrix.

What's included

8 videos1 reading2 assignments1 peer review2 app items1 plugin

8 videosTotal 40 minutes

Introducing evaluation in public health6 minutes
Types of evaluation: Outcome evaluation4 minutes
Types of evaluation: Process and formative evaluation5 minutes
Measuring quality in health care5 minutes
The Donabedian approach to evaluation6 minutes
The Logical Framework approach (the Logframe)6 minutes
Practitioner interview: Evaluation in practice7 minutes
Conclusion2 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Using indicators in performance monitoring and management10 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 40 minutes

Indicators of quality and performance20 minutes
Classifying indicators using Donabedian20 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 60 minutes

Designing your own evaluation60 minutes

2 app itemsTotal 20 minutes

Indicators of quality and performance10 minutes
Classifying indicators using Donabedian10 minutes

1 pluginTotal 15 minutes

Did it work?15 minutes

In the final module of this course, you will learn about analysis in public health. Analysis is essentially breaking something down so it can be more easily understood, and in this module, you will learn different techniques for doing this. You will also learn about intelligence briefings, and will end the module by writing your own intelligence briefing.