PUB 3010 - Community Health Survey, Assessment and Health Improvement Planning

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): PUB 1000

Description: Students will learn concepts and methods of community health improvement and the role of assessment. This course will cover important community health topics including systems thinking that leads to coordination of health care and public health activities to achieve community health goals; the nature of health and its determinants; the use of quantitative and qualitative methods; data analysis; community mobilization and capacity building; and the impact of current national policy, including the Affordable Care Act, on community health improvement.