Curriculum: Leadership and Communities: Community Health Methods

Goal: Review frameworks and methods related to community health assessments, service planning, implementation, and evaluation

Objectives:

  • Understand the following approaches to community health:
    • Community-Oriented Primary Health Care
    • Ecological Models
    • Evidence-based medicine/community medicine/public health/population health
    • Logic Model and be able to apply the model to their project
    • Other theoretical frameworks, including Community Needs/ Community Capacity Inventories

Methods:

  • Select a method to organize and present your community health project
  • Identify and discuss advantages and limitations of various approaches to community health
  • Reflect on each method and its relevance to your project and to your personal goals

Readings/ Resources:

  • Strongly encouraged:
    • To be announced
  • Optional:
    • Kretzmann and McKnight, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Community's Assets and Skills of Local Residents
    • See bibliography for additional readings

    • Evaluation:

    • Attend and participate in LOCUS events
    • Complete LOCUS surveys
    • Self-evaluation regarding the usefulness of the method, and your ability to complete the project

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