Public Health Research: Intervention Development and Evaluation [HS02c]

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, Assignment(s)