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Knowledge and skills are
assessed by means of student performance in the classroom,
field practicum and oral presentation/final paper.
By graduation, MPH students must demonstrate the following
abilities:
Analytic Skills
* Define a public health problem.
* Determine appropriate use of data and statistical methods.
* Collect and summarize data relevant to an issue.
* Evaluate the quality and comparability of data and identify
gaps in data sources.
* Describe how the data illuminate ethical, political,
scientific, economic, and overall public health issues.
* Identify research designs used in public health, including
advantages and flaws of specific designs, and determine
designs appropriate to specific needs.
Communication Skills
* Communicate effectively to professional and lay audiences
both in writing and orally (unless a disability precludes
oral communication).
* Solicit input from individuals and organizations.
* Advocate for public health programs and resources.
Policy Development/Program Planning Skills
* Relate historical development and structure of local,
state and federal public health agencies to current public
health practice issues, policies and program implementation.
* Identify the feasibility and expected health, fiscal,
administrative, legal, social and political implications
of policy/program options.
* Develop a plan to implement a policy/program including
goals, outcome and process objectives, implementation
and mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their
effectiveness.
Cultural Skills
* Interact sensitively, effectively, and professionally
with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and
professional backgrounds.
* Identify the role of culture, social, behavioral factors
in determining disease, disease prevention, health promoting
behavior, and medical service organization and delivery.
* Develop and adapt approaches to problems that take into
account cultural differences.
Basic Public Health Skills
* Define, assess, and describe the health status of populations,
determinants of health and illness, factors contributing
to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors
influencing the use of health services.
* Apply the basic public health skills from behavioral
and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, and
environmental health to improve health status.
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