PBH 6100 Health Planning and Community Health
This course provides students with an understanding of health program planning, including methods for assessment, planning models and theories, and intervention strategies for community settings. The course presents methods for identifying needs for public health intervention, developing and managing appropriate response programs, designing budgets, and evaluating effectiveness of interventions. This course covers important community health concepts including systems approaches for coordination of health care services, setting community health goals, the role of social determinants of health, community mobilization and capacity building, and impacts of current policies on community health improvement.