Learning Objectives
Degree Program Details:
Public Health Sciences Skills and Perspectives:
- Define, assess, and understand the health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing the use of health services
- Apply basic public health sciences to the development and improvement of public health programs for the prevention of disease and the promotion of public health and well being
- Understand how to consider perspectives other than one's own in analyzing public health problems and developing solutions to those problems
Analytical Skills:
- Apply critical thinking skills to public health problems
- Apply basic economic principles to health policy issues
- Apply basic legal principles to health policy issues
- Apply basic ethical principles to health policy issues
- Determine appropriate use of data and statistical methods for problem identification and resolution, and for program planning, implementation, and evaluation
Policy and Organizational Skills:
- Describe the U.S. legislative process
- Identify health policy issues
- Conduct stakeholder analyses
- Conduct impact analyses
- Develop a policy implementation plan and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating such an implementation plan
Communication Skills:
- Communicate effectively with colleagues from other disciplines
- Lead and participate in multidisciplinary groups to address specific public health problems and issues
- Communicate effectively with lay audiences
- Effectively advocate for public health programs and resources
Cultural Skills:
- Identify the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining disease, disease prevention, health promoting behavior, and medical service organization and delivery
- Interact sensitively, effectively, and professionally with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, and with persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences.
