Methodological Approaches to Understanding Population Health

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This course explores the determinants of a population’s health focusing on the analytic methods used to help identify, understand, and address inequities in health at the organizational, community, and societal levels. Emphasis will be placed on understanding and selecting appropriate quantitative and qualitative data collection methods for a given public health context while considering study design, sampling, causality, and threats to validity. Students will learn to interpret results of data analysis and translate this information to practice through reading the literature and considering how evidence is used to inform health policy, address population health challenges, and communicate with diverse audiences.