Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit

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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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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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No prior experience required

Flexible schedule

1 week at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

94%

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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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There are 4 modules in this course

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.

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 videos Total 43 minutes

Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder 3 minutes
Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo 4 minutes
Introductory video and welcome 2 minutes
Bradshaw's taxonomy of need 5 minutes
What is health needs assessment? 6 minutes
Who uses health needs assessment? 4 minutes
Example 1: A local health and wellbeing needs assessment 6 minutes
Example 2: A national healthcare needs assessment 5 minutes
Conclusion 1 minute
Introducing health impact assessment 3 minutes
Introducing Health Equity Audit 3 minutes

10 readings Total 82 minutes

About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team 5 minutes
How to be successful in this course 5 minutes
Grading policy 5 minutes
Glossary 5 minutes
Examples of local and national HNAs 15 minutes
Examples of best practice in health needs assessment 10 minutes
E-tivity: Examples of health impact assessment 20 minutes
E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment 10 minutes
Scoping in health impact assessment 2 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment 5 minutes

4 assignments Total 60 minutes

E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment 10 minutes
E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment 10 minutes
Classifying need using Bradshaw's taxonomy 20 minutes
Health Needs Assessment 20 minutes

1 app item Total 60 minutes

Health Needs Assessment 60 minutes

5 discussion prompts Total 50 minutes

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

3 plugins Total 40 minutes

E-tivity: Examples of need 15 minutes
E-tivity: Examples health needs assessment 15 minutes
E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment 10 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 videos Total 30 minutes

The public health intelligence cycle 7 minutes
Routinely collected data and metadata 7 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 assessment 6 minutes
Conclusion 2 minutes

3 readings Total 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 interventions 5 minutes

3 assignments Total 45 minutes

Prioritising health needs and interventions 10 minutes
Classifying data, information and intelligence 15 minutes
Pros and cons of routinely and non-routinely collected data 20 minutes

2 app items Total 25 minutes

Classifying data, information and intelligence 10 minutes
Quiz: Routinely and non-routinely collected data 15 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions 10 minutes

4 plugins Total 35 minutes

Routinely Collected Data Treasure Hun 15 minutes
Routinely Collected Data Treasure Hunt 15 minutes
E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and intervention 3 minutes
E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions 2 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 videos Total 40 minutes

Introducing evaluation in public health 6 minutes
Types of evaluation: Outcome evaluation 4 minutes
Types of evaluation: Process and formative evaluation 5 minutes
Measuring quality in health care 5 minutes
The Donabedian approach to evaluation 6 minutes
The Logical Framework approach (the Logframe) 6 minutes
Practitioner interview: Evaluation in practice 7 minutes
Conclusion 2 minutes

1 reading Total 10 minutes

Using indicators in performance monitoring and management 10 minutes

2 assignments Total 40 minutes

Indicators of quality and performance 20 minutes
Classifying indicators using Donabedian 20 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Designing your own evaluation 60 minutes

2 app items Total 20 minutes

Indicators of quality and performance 10 minutes
Classifying indicators using Donabedian 10 minutes

1 plugin Total 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.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review4 discussion prompts

4 videos Total 18 minutes

Getting started in analysis 5 minutes
Getting started in analysis (Double Diamond Method) 5 minutes
Practitioner Interview: Briefings in practice 5 minutes
Conclusion 3 minutes

1 reading Total 10 minutes

E-tivity: Public health analysis 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Public health analysis 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Briefing on dementia health care needs in Tokyo, Japan 60 minutes

4 discussion prompts Total 40 minutes

E-tivity: Public health analysis 10 minutes
E-tivity: Public health analysis 10 minutes
E-tivity: Public health analysis 10 minutes
E-tivity: Public health analysis 10 minutes

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Reviewed on May 20, 2020

This is a great course with clear explanation and understanding of the essential toolkit require to analyse through the public health's perspective !

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Very good. Would like to see more explanation of the finer details of each segment.

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