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Nov 22, 2024
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COMH 206 - Community Needs Assessment
Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course provides an in-depth examination of the techniques and methods used for determining community and population needs and assets for community health intervention and readiness for change at the individual, interpersonal, community, institutional and policy levels. Students will learn how to use both primary and secondary data to better understand what types of programs are needed, and how they should be tailored to specific communities. Students will identify and be able to access sources of public health data, such as vital statistics records, disease registries, other surveillance databases, census data, national surveys and medical records. The course will emphasize the role of social, cultural, economic and institutional factors in individual, community and population health status and behavior in order to facilitate the movement toward community self-determination and control of local public health practice.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.
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