Overview - PH 425: Community Agenda Setting

After completing PH 425, learners will be proficient in developing and applying a logic model demonstrating interrelationships among risk and protective factors for population health that are commonly used in community health improvement processes. Key aspects of this competency expectation include:

• defining risk and protective factors for a given community health issue
• placing risk and protective factors in a hypothesized causal pathway or logic model and describing interrelations among variables
• developing a logic model, demonstrating interrelationships among variables of interest that will lead to a plan, including goals, outcome and process objectives and implementation steps
• applying the basic public health sciences, including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries
• identifying and retrieving current relevant scientific evidence
  

This course involves several learning activities; see the PH 425 Exercises document for detailed instructions.

• Content: the content for this course is provided in the specific readings and other resources identified in the PH 425 Exercises document.
• Office Hours: This messaging system was created to handle questions and announcements. Visit this site to introduce yourself to the course as well as to help you get familiar with the workings of the system.
• Exercises:
  1. Individual Exercise: submit the completed individual exercise under the link "Submit Assignments". Your instructor will provide feedback by replying to your posting
  2. Conferencing Exercise: add your contribution to this multi-learner conferencing exercise.
  3. Assessment Quiz: complete and submit the multiple choice assessment quiz for PH 425.

The instructor will evaluate your responses to the various exercises and indicate when you have successfully completed PH 425. For learners interested in going beyond the basics, a list of additional resources, including readings and other materials, is available through the Additional Resources link. This list emphasizes the most up-to-date materials. Information on related courses is provided in the PH 420 Course Series Syllabus. PH 426 (or any other course) can begin whenever you wish, so feel free to begin the readings that are identified for the course that you plan to take next.

PH 425 Overview last revised July 12, 2004 (bturnock)