Public Health Research: Intervention Development and Evaluation [HS02c]
Course highlights
EC points
1.9
Start date
04-11-2019
End date
08-11-2019
Course days
Weekdays, except Wednesday
Faculty
Frank van Lenthe, PhD , and others
Course fee
€ 820
Location
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam NL
Level
Introductory
Prerequisites
Methods of Public Health Research (ESP11), Analysis of Population Health (HS02a) and Analysis of Determinants (HS02b)
Disciplines
- Public Health
Exam date
15-11-2019
Application
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Detailed information about this course:
Description
Public Health Research: from Epidemiology to Health Promotion
Module: Intervention Development and Evaluation.
This module elaborates on the intervention development, implementation and evaluation phases in the model of planned promotion of public health.
Students will:
- be introduced to strategies and opportunities of primary and secondary prevention;
- learn how to work from determinants to interventions, i.e. how to translate determinants into intervention goals and intervention components and;
- learn about the opportunities and challenges of evaluation of primary and secondary prevention interventions and;
- be introduced to theory and challenges in dissemination of prevention interventions.
The course uses examples from health behaviour change, cancer screening, and vaccination.
Note: HS02a, HS02b and HS02c will be tested after the HS02c course! If you are taking all three courses, you need to pass all three courses separately.
Objectives
- to understand the important strategies for prevention;
- to have basic insight into the process of prevention intervention development;
- to have knowledge of the opportunities and barriers in evaluation of prevention interventions;
- to have skills to choose and apply the different research designs that can be used in evaluation of prevention intervention.
Assessment
Attendance, Written exam
Reduction on fees
PLEASE NOTE THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO THE RESEARCH MASTERS (120 EC points)
50% reduction on our fees for participating institutes of NIHES
This 50% reduction is offered to participants formally appointed at the departments or sections participating in NIHES.
University Medical Center Rotterdam/Erasmus University Rotterdam:
- Department of Epidemiology
- Department of Public Health
- Department of Psychiatry, Section of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology
- Department of Medical Informatics
- Department of General Practice
- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- Generation R
50% reduction on our fees for NIHES affiliated partners
This 50% reduction is offered to participants formally appointed at the following NIHES affiliated partners:
University Medical Center Rotterdam/Erasmus University Rotterdam, departments of:
- Dermatology
- General Paediatrics
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Rehabilitation Medicine
Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR)
Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology
25% reduction on our fees for partner institutes of NIHES
For participants formally appointed at the following departments, institutes:
- Departments of Erasmus MC (except the departments mentioned above)
- Addiction Research Institute (IVO)
- Integraal Kankercentrum Zuid (IKZ)
- Pallas Health Research and Consultancy
- Municipal Health Service Amsterdam (GGD Amsterdam)
- Municipal Health Service Rotterdam (GGD Rotterdam)
- Havenpolikliniek
- Admiraal De Ruyter Ziekenhuis
25% reduction for all (international) PhD students
Please state your supervisor/promotor’s name and email address on the application form (remarks field).
25% reduction on our course fees (maximum 3 EC points per academic year) for all NIHES alumni
Please state that you are a NIHES alumnus/alumna and the academic year you graduated (remarks field). Please note that the reduction on fees for alumni does not apply to the Erasmus Summer Programme.