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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PHC7103
Tracking Number - 3104
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2013-10-11
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: to GC 5/6/13 for DrPh Changes. Approved. Cleared Syst Concurrence 7/31/13. to SCNS 8/5/13. 7610 approved as 7103 eff 9/1/13
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2013-02-28
- Department: Community and Family Health
- College: PH
- Budget Account Number: HSC 10000 640500 PUB001
- Contact Person: Rita DeBate
- Phone: 8139746683
- Email: rdebate@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: PHC
- Number: 7103
- Full Title: Transforming Public Health Practice
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: Y
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Transforming PH Practice
- Course Online?: B -
Face-to-face and online (separate sections)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
-
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: An introduction to the needs for developing the contemporary public health infrastructure. An overview of current issues and methods of public health practice in addition to issues and methods of public health leadership and management.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for accreditation
- 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? All DrPH students would be required to take this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Experience in public health practice.
- Objectives: 1.Demonstrate a commitment to public health professional values
2.Develop collaborative partnerships with communities, policy makers, and other relevant groups.
3.Develop capacity-building strategies at the individual, organizational, and community level.
- Learning Outcomes: 1.Discuss the history of public health and its impact on current public health services
2.Discuss the complex problems challenging public health organizations
3.Describe the public health systems need for change
4.Identify the characteristics of quality in the field of public health.
5.Acknowledge the need for partnerships in dealing with the health problems associated with chronic disease
6.Recognize the role of leadership and politics in the changing healthcare environment
7.Identify opportunities available to improve community health through collaboration among the major players in the delivery of health care services in our county
8.Identify the role of the public health leader and the empowered worker in improving quality in the health care system.
9.Define strategies for sustaining partnerships
10.Define key elements for assessing partnerships
11.Articulate the need for public health leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
12.Identify the major components of continuous quality improvement process
13.Comprehend the value of risk communication in preventing the development of chronic disease and their complications
14.Identify how health inequities are systematically created and delineate elements of an effective strategy within health care and at the community level to reduce inequalities in health and safety
15.Identify goals for future of public health practice
- Major Topics: Session 1: Introduction to course and the need for change in the practice of public health
Reading: Chapter 1 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #1
Session 2: Critical factors for the success of public health programs
Reading: Chapter 2 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #2
Session 3: Critical issues for the future of healthcare in the US
Reading: Chapter 3 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #3
Due: Case study 1: Innovation in health education programs
Session 4: Application of epidemiological concepts for health care delivery and
Reading: Chapter 4 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #4
Due: Case study 2: The power of data: Osceola County secures a federally qualified health center
Session 5: Shifting the focus from communicable to chronic diseases
Reading: Chapter 5 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #5
Due: Case study 3: Disabilities
Session 6: Issues in public health practice: Expert panel presentation and discussion.
Session 7: Leadership and politics in public health
Reading: Chapter 6 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #6
Due: Case study 4: Municipal health department leadership inside out
Session 8: Empowering public health workers
Reading: Chapter 7 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #7
Due: Case study 5: Formation of community partnerships to prepare for H1N1
Session 9: Developing partnerships to improve publics health
Reading: Chapter 8 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #8
Due: Case study 6: Partnering for improved infant health in Stanislaus County
Session 10: Leading and managing change in public health organizations
Reading: Chapter 9 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #9
Session 11: Developing an outcomes orientation in public health organizations
Reading: Chapter 10 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #10
Due: Case study 7: Using MAPP to Get up & Go! In St. Clare County
Session 12: Opportunities for improvement in public health practice
Reading: Chapter 11 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #11
Due: Case study 8: Innovation in colorectal cancer education programs
Session 13: Local solutions to reduce inequities in health and safety
Reading: Chapter 12 in course text
Discussion questions #11
Session 14: Challenges in the new world of public health practice
Reading: Chapter 13 in course text
Discussion questions #13
Session 15: Issues and methods of public health leadership and management: Expert panel presentation and discussion
- Textbooks: Healey BJ, and Lesneski CD. Transforming public health practice: Leadership and management essentials. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: Readings are from the textbook listed above
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: 1.Class participation (150 pts; 31%)
2.Discussion questions (13 sets @ 10 pts each= 130 pts; 27%)
3.Case studies (8 @ 25 pts each for a total of 200 pts; 42%)
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Session 1: Introduction to course and the need for change in the practice of public health
Reading: Chapter 1 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #1
Session 2: Critical factors for the success of public health programs
Reading: Chapter 2 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #2
Session 3: Critical issues for the future of healthcare in the US
Reading: Chapter 3 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #3
Due: Case study 1: Innovation in health education programs
Session 4: Application of epidemiological concepts for health care delivery and
Reading: Chapter 4 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #4
Due: Case study 2: The power of data: Osceola County secures a federally qualified health center
Session 5: Shifting the focus from communicable to chronic diseases
Reading: Chapter 5 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #5
Due: Case study 3: Disabilities
Session 6: Issues in public health practice: Expert panel presentation and discussion.
Session 7: Leadership and politics in public health
Reading: Chapter 6 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #6
Due: Case study 4: Municipal health department leadership inside out
Session 8: Empowering public health workers
Reading: Chapter 7 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #7
Due: Case study 5: Formation of community partnerships to prepare for H1N1
Session 9: Developing partnerships to improve publics health
Reading: Chapter 8 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #8
Due: Case study 6: Partnering for improved infant health in Stanislaus County
Session 10: Leading and managing change in public health organizations
Reading: Chapter 9 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #9
Session 11: Developing an outcomes orientation in public health organizations
Reading: Chapter 10 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #10
Due: Case study 7: Using MAPP to Get up & Go! In St. Clare County
Session 12: Opportunities for improvement in public health practice
Reading: Chapter 11 in course text
Due: Discussion questions #11
Due: Case study 8: Innovation in colorectal cancer education programs
Session 13: Local solutions to reduce inequities in health and safety
Reading: Chapter 12 in course text
Discussion questions #11
Session 14: Challenges in the new world of public health practice
Reading: Chapter 13 in course text
Discussion questions #13
Session 15: Issues and methods of public health leadership and management: Expert panel presentation and discussion
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. Its the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: Graduate:
http://www.grad.usf.edu/inc/linked-files/USF_Grad_Catalog_2011-2012.pdf#page=39
The University of South Florida has an account with an automated plagiarism detection service (Turnitin), which allows instructors and students to submit student assignments to be checked for plagiarism. I (the instructor) reserve the right to 1) request that assignments be submitted as electronic files and 2) submit students assignments to Turnitin, or 3) request students to submit their assignments to Turnitin through the course site. Assignments are compared automatically with a database of journal articles, web articles, the internet and previously submitted papers. The instructor receives a report showing exactly how a students paper was plagiarized.
NOTE: An institution may not release a paper to a plagiarism detection software without the students prior consent unless all personally identifiable information has been removed, such as a students name, social security number, student number, etc.. Note that a paper/essay is considered an educational record and an institution may not ask a student to waive their rights under FERPA for the purpose of submitting papers to a plagiarism detection software.
For more information about Plagiarism and Turnitin, visit:
Plagiarism tutorial: http://davon.etg.usf.edu/share/plagiarism/story.html
Turnitin: http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training/submitting-a-paper
- Program This Course Supports: DrPH
- Course Concurrence Information: Medicine, nursing
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.