Online course in Chile "Conceptual Foundations of Public Health"

Online course in Chile "Conceptual Foundations of Public Health"

Already began the online course in Chile "Conceptual Foundations of Public Health" which aims to help develop and strengthen competencies of analysis, reflection and knowledge of the theoretical foundations of public health in the current national and global context of the teams of the Undersecretary of Public Health.

Knowledge Objectives:

  • Analyzing the conceptual development of public health, considering the major milestones of its historical evolution.
  • Identify and in-depth analysis of key public health concepts, theories, current models and paradigms. Including theoretical and conceptual bases of evidence-based public health
  • Examine the factors that determine the health status of the population identifying themselves determinants of the health sector. Learn and deepen the concepts of social determinants of Health and Health Equity.
  • Understand the characteristics and demographic changes in the composition and dynamics of a population using the health situation in Chile.
  • Explain the concept of natural history in the process of health - disease stages relating to the levels of prevention.
  • Analyze the overall context in which development of public health without borders
  • Analyze the needs and health problems of individuals and communities, identifying the criteria that define a public health problem.
  • Identify sources of information on the health of the population.
  • Use multiple sources of information to build public health indicators, and interpret them for efficient and effective decision making.
  • Describe the major health problems of people and the environment in Chile today and relate to the determinants
  • Identify and analyze the essential functions of public health
  • Identify and analyze the current challenges for improving public health practice
  • Develop and strengthen management skills, through the incorporation of tools, which are translated into specific projects of intervention in issues of public health, ensuring that these skills remain installed on the computers, once this course .

Objectives of skills and abilities:

  • Use multiple sources of information to build public health indicators, and interpret them for efficient and effective decision making.
  • Recognize and define criteria for prioritizing public health issues.
  • Understand the process of health reform in Chile, its foundations and laws in the field of public health.
  • Demonstrate skills to perform effective research in public health.

Objectives of attitudes and values:

  • Recognize the importance of public health and the different disciplines contributing thereto, and its role in the context of social and economic development of the country.
  • Recognize the importance of concepts such as demographic and health characteristics and demographic changes in the composition and population dynamics in Chile.
  • Assess the importance of public health surveillance as a strategy for information gathering, dissemination, and control of collective health problems.
  • Assess and recognize the fundamental aspects of health reform in our country.