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Foundations of Public Health Practice

This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.The specialisation is shaped into four courses covering the origins of public health, health improvement, behaviour change, and health protection. The specialisation will draw upon learning from the Statistics for Public Health and Epidemiology for Public Health specialisations, and builds the foundations of public health knowledge. By the end of this specialisation, you will be able to: 1. Use the principles which underpin public health as a discipline in order to articulate public health objectives; 2. Critically analyse public health challenges using data and health intelligence in order to characterise need and prioritise actions for key stakeholders 3. Devise effective interventions using behaviour change theory and other public health approaches in order to improve population health outcomes; 4. Assess both operational and strategic health protection threats in order to recommend appropriate management actions to relevant parties; 5. Reflect upon one's own professional skills, attitudes, and behaviours in order to improve leadership capability and personal effectiveness in public healthpractice; 6. Apply appropriate health protection, health improvement and disease prevention interventions in order to improve public health programmes.

Status: Preventative Care
Status: Public Health
BeginnerSpecialization

Top reviews across Foundations of Public Health Practice

DS

Reviewed Apr 16, 2020

This course was very informative and very interesting. I really enjoyed learning about Public Health and thought the instructors did a great job!

KS

Reviewed May 20, 2020

This is a great course with clear explanation and understanding of the essential toolkit require to analyse through the public health's perspective !

DN

Reviewed Jun 23, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the Behavioral Change Wheel.

GO

Reviewed Aug 22, 2023

it was really exciting to hear stories from real-world health protection practitioners. thank you for such an amazing course!

RM

Reviewed Apr 14, 2020

It is nice experience to learn from Dr. Richard the quality teaching would be really helpful me to strengthen my public health understanding. Thank you coursera.

DN

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Very good. Would like to see more explanation of the finer details of each segment.

SJ

Reviewed Jun 25, 2020

I felt this had too much material but not enough assignments. The instructor seemed unsure sometimes in videos.

PV

Reviewed Aug 29, 2024

the foundation of public health is very important for my career growth

MK

Reviewed May 31, 2020

Lecturers did a great job in their delivery and the course was structured really well. Precise and interesting throughout.

RM

Reviewed Apr 16, 2020

Coursera always deliver quality teaching and it is a motiv to learn new skills from telented mentors from world premiere institution.

MS

Reviewed May 20, 2020

wonderful course. Get to learn about behavior as a health worker.

JE

Reviewed Oct 29, 2020

GREAT COURSE WITH RELEVANT INFORMATION EVEN FOR NON-PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTITIONERS

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