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This course's scope and content were created from the ground up by a collaborative team of academics and practitioners, who drew on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Learners will be immersed in the world of public health practise through short video lectures, practitioner interviews, and a variety of interactive activities. Learners will gain an understanding of the scope, history, ethics, principles, and paradigms of public health practise. However, there is also important foundational content for those with more experience in the field. The term "Public Health Approach" refers to an upstream, preventive, values-driven, and evidence-based approach to improving population health. By the end of this course, learners will be capable of identifying and describing a wide range of public health challenges using public health terminology and reference points.
Syllabus :
1. The public health approach
- Breaking down public health: conceptual frameworks and the four domain model
- An introduction to health improvement
- An introduction to health protection
- An introduction to healthcare public health
- An introduction to health intelligence
- Practitioner interview: the domains of public health, why are they important?
- A history of public health: origins and genesis
- A history of public health: the modern world
- A movement for global health
- International governance
- What is ethics?
- Ethics in public health practice
- Utilitarianism in public health
- An introduction to social justice
- The challenge of autonomy in public health practice
2. The wider determinants of health
- Introducing the wider determinants of health
- Socio-economic status (SES)
- Deprivation - a spatial measure
- Equity and equality
- Examples and implications of inequality
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
3. Prevention and early identification
- Prevention and early intervention
- Resilience
- Introducing screening: definition and approaches
- The epidemiological implications of screening
- Risks, bias and consequences of screening
- The Wilson-Jungner Criteria for screening programmes
- Practitioner interview: Screening in practice
- The Prevention Paradox & Conclusion
4. Politics and policy in public health
- Political theory
- Practitioner interview: Power and politics
- Sources of power and types of authority in public health practice
- Approaches to influencing effectively
- Stakeholder mapping and influencing
- Stakeholder mapping and influencing
- Practitioner interview: Working with stakeholders
