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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PHC6195
Tracking Number - 1753
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2006-06-28
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2006-05-25
- Department: HPM
- College: PH
- Budget Account Number: 6404
- Contact Person: Etienne E. Pracht
- Phone: 47609
- Email: epracht@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: PHC
- Number: 6195
- Full Title: Public health data, information, & decision making
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): PH Data INFO Decision
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: Biostatistics I
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course provides an understanding of public health databases and methods necessary for decision making. The emphasis is on the appropriateness and application of methods widely used for analysis in public health.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course addresses several core competencies of Public Health - MPH graduates. (see objectives)
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? It will be part of the newly proposed Public Health Administration program; it is currently used in the Public Health Practice Program (as a PHC6439); and it is an elective for any other degree program offered in the college.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes -- 2 times as PHC6934: Information Management in Public Health Settings
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Minimum qualifications include a Ph.D. with a strong background in public health research methods
- Objectives: After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify principal sources of health statistics databases
- Demonstrate the use of the datasets for public health management
- Determine appropriate use of data and statistical methods for problem identification and resolution, and program planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Select and define variables relevant to public health problems.
- Evaluate the integrity and comparability of data and identify gaps in data sources.
- Understand how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, social, and overall public health issues.
- Learning Outcomes: hese are incorporated in the objectives (repeated here)
- Identify principal sources of health statistics databases
- Demonstrate the use of the datasets for public health management
- Determine appropriate use of data and statistical methods for problem identification and resolution, and program planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Select and define variables relevant to public health problems.
- Evaluate the integrity and comparability of data and identify gaps in data sources.
- Understand how the data illuminate ethical, political, scientific, economic, social, and overall public health issues.
- Major Topics: Information Management, Analysis, and Decision Making using large Public Health Datasets
- Textbooks: Veney, James E. (2003) Statistics For Health Policy and Administration Using Microsoft Excel Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.