HLTH 441 - Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Community Health Initiatives

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: As Needed

In this course, students learn to develop evidence-based community health initiatives. Over the course of the semester, students work on developing their own culturally competent community health initiatives, each of which is targeted at a particular population with a specific health need. Students learn to assess community needs and assets using a variety of methods and through use of logic models, design theoretically informed intervention activities appropriate to the needs/assets identified, create a budget and organizational structure, and engage key stakeholders at every facet of development and implementation of the community health initiative.

Prerequisite(s): HLTH 427.