PH 4410 - Evaluating Public Health Programs

Designed to develop assessment and evaluation skills in community and public health indicators. Focus will be on program evaluation models relevant for health education in the community. Measures of interest will include process, impact and outcome. Design operations for measuring program effect, with the associated threats and external validity, are discussed, and several basic statistical techniques are reviewed and examined in terms of their applicability to program evaluation.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: PH 4310, PH 4320, and PH 4330; with a grade of “C” or better required in all prerequisites.

Credits: 3 hours