These teaching modules include ready to use material aimed at improving clinical and population-based prevention skills for all health professions students.  This curriculum is designed to be easily integrated into existing curricula. Faculty can choose the materials that best fit with their teaching style and needs, from recorded PowerPoint presentations that students can view online, to population health cases which can be used in small group settings. The modules have been designed using the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework.

Instructor guides are available for specific modules. All seven modules feature:

• Presentations produced by subject matter experts
• Supplemental materials to facilitate small group learning
• Bibliography of key resources. 

 

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Discuss how to assess the health status of populations using available data (e.g., public health surveillance data, vital statistics, registries, surveys, electronic health records and health plan claims data)
2. Describe the distribution of morbidity and mortality by age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and geography in the United States
3. Discuss the role of socioeconomic, environmental, cultural, and other population-level determinants of health on the health status and health care of individuals and populations
4. Identify the leading causes of death, leading underlying causes of death, and health disparities in the United States
5. Apply the Healthy People 2020 Objectives both in assessment of health status and as a component of strategies to improve community health 
   

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Describe the distribution of disease in a population according to person, place and time
2. Calculate measures of disease occurrence and disease severity including incidence, prevalence and case-fatality
3. Compare major epidemiologic study designs including strengths and weaknesses of each and issues of interpretation of each including bias and confounding
4. Calculate measures of association including relative risk and odds ratios
5. Interpret measures of association, confidence intervals and p-values
6. Evaluate medical and public health literature and its implications for patient and population health

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of prevention in terms of health outcomes and economic impact
2. Describe strategies for incorporating prevention into healthcare settings
3. Describe and categorize the essential elements of a preventive history
4. Take a preventive history and develop a prevention plan
5. Identify age-specific Preventive History using the Life Course Preventive History Chart
6. Explain the role of the US Preventive Services Task Force in improving health outcomes

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Describe the distribution of disease in a population according to person, place and time
2. Calculate measures of disease occurrence and disease severity including incidence, prevalence and case-fatality
3. Compare major epidemiologic study designs including strengths and weaknesses of each and issues of interpretation of each including bias and confounding
4. Calculate measures of association including relative risk and odds ratios
5. Interpret measures of association, confidence intervals and p-values
6. Evaluate medical and public health literature and its implications for patient and population health

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. List the major sectors of the US healthcare system
2. Describe interactions among elements of the healthcare system
3. Describe how clinical services are funded, including how individuals are covered and how providers are reimbursed
4. Explain the models of healthcare financing used in the US system
5. Describe the organization of the public health system at the federal, state, and local levels
6. Explain relationships between clinical practice and public health

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Explain community needs, assets, resources, and the social determinants of health, in order to work effectively with communities to address health problems and improve health outcomes.
2. Describe the principles, elements and value of community engaged research (CER), and understand how it is different from a traditional research approach.
3. Discuss how to translate and disseminate research findings into effective healthcare practices.

Objectives: After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Identify methods used for disease surveillance and describe situations requiring active versus passive surveillance
2. Describe the steps of an outbreak investigation
3. Propose strategies for prioritizing limited resources during an outbreak
4. Recommend preventive measures to reduce spread of disease in the community and in healthcare settings
5. Apply the basic tenets of risk communication to share health information with the public

Prevention and Population Health Modules © 2012 developed by Brody School of Medicine, Department of Public Health at East Carolina University through the APTR Initiative to Enhance Prevention and Population Health Education in collaboration with Duke University School of Medicine School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

This project was funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Suggested Citation:
"Prevention and Public Health Modules.” Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. (Access Date). https://www.aptrweb.org/pophealthmodules.
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