HLTH-1 Courses:

HLTH 8545 - Advanced Analysis of Community Health Data and Surveillance in Public Health

(5 credits)

Students in this course cover the application of community health assessment, secondary data analysis, and the use of health informatics and surveillance for program planning. Students learn to identify and prioritize problems, and then assess and utilize community resources to address these problems. Topics include measuring selected determinants of community health status and health services use, classification of community assets, identification of data sources, simple and complex sampling designs, and application of certain methods to maximize community participation. Students will develop an understanding of statistical and epidemiological methodology to utilize secondary data to synthesize the results of a community health assessment and limitations to create a community diagnosis that serves as the basis for program planning and research design.