Public Health Assessment: Data, Determinants, and Systems (PH-0202)

Fall 2024 · PH 0202 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

This foundational course in the Tufts MPH program provides an overview of essential frameworks, perspectives, and domains in public health. The course will introduce students to the social ecological model, social determinants of health, public health and health care systems, global health, and health equity. Critical public health challenges will be examined within historical, social, and political contexts across an array of public health domains, such as individual health behaviors, environmental health, occupational health, and health care services and systems. Students will be exposed to practice-based tools for conducting assessments and characterizing public health problems using a systems approach, examining multiple levels of the social ecological model, including individual, organizational, community, systems, and policy.

Course codes: PH-0202, PH 0202, PH0202, PH-202, PH 202, PH202

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