Community and Global Health

Catalog description

Evaluation frameworks, needs assessments, and logic models will be studied with a particular emphasis on evaluating community-based programs. Performance evaluation as well as formative, process, impact, and outcome evaluation purposes and techniques will be compared. Theoretical and pragmatic approaches to the design and implementation of evaluation protocols will be explored, along with the role of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Topics include the global burden of disease and mortality in multiple dimensions (e.g., geography, socioeconomic class, race, and gender), the social, political, and economic determinants of health disparities, factors that impact global health systems, analysis of health care delivery systems, and influential health system analysis.