PT 784 Foundations in Population Health

This course provides an introduction to population health management and builds the context for the essential role that multifaceted, scale-able health promotion and prevention interventions play in achieving sustainable, value-based health outcomes at national and global levels. This course will lay the foundation for assessing and developing population health initiatives using the social-ecological framework. In part 1, students will evaluate the economic burden and prosperity costs of chronic disease management. In part 2, students will survey historical and contemporary population health initiatives to close the gap between disease management and sustainable community health. In part 3, students will evaluate evidence-based interventions for key health behaviors. (2)