Wednesdays (Odd numbered weeks), 2:30pm-6:20pm, 4 credits; SLN: 18240
Explores culture as it related to the program planning process, methods , theories, attitudes, and skills in health promotion and disease prevention through community engagement.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Describe the modifications of traditional community health practice that must be made to plan programs across cultures.
2. Articulate and demonstrate attitudes and values most constructive for program planning with multicultural populations;
3. Compare and contrast models of community engagement with an emphasis on community-based participatory approaches with multicultural populations;
4. Discuss and demonstrate an understanding of the key components of program planning in health promotion and disease prevention with multicultural populations;
5. Analyze culturally appropriate community intervention programs to identify key components and activities;
6. Analyze approaches needed to translate theory and research into transculturally appropriate interventions;
7. Identify challenges in program planning with multicultural populations (e.g. availability of epidemiology data, racial misclassification, cultural differences in patterns of communication related to work in planning teams. cultural orientation/values related to implementation design, and cultural differences in evaluation design) and actions that may be helpful to address the challenges.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of attitudes, values, and skills relevant to cross cultural health promotion projects.
