Prerequisites: [PUBHLTH 200; (C- or better) & Junior or Senior Standing] or Public Health Major
Description: This course introduces students to strategies as well as best practices and challenges in translating strategies into public health policies, programs and practices. This course provides an overview of stakeholders who create, enact, and assess health promotion strategies. Students will identify, define and evaluate strategies to address public health issues.
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the process for tailoring intervention messages based on the specific audiences, content and media channels
2. Discuss the legal, ethical and economic implications of public health policies and interventions
3. Describe principles of planning, implementing and evaluating public health programs and interventions
4. Compare and contrast the roles of various policy-forming bodies (agencies, organizations, governments) in public health promotion
5. Explore various conceptualizations of effectiveness with regard to public health strategies
