Concentration Specific Competencies

You will gain a minimum of 5 concentration or focus area competencies based on the courses you complete in your program:

CHB 513 A Public Health Perspective on Aging

• Evaluate how ageism influences health outcomes.
• Recommend community-based resources for addressing health problems in diverse aging populations.

CHB 522 Refugee Health

• Appraise major health issues of refugee populations nationally and locally.
• Evaluate major barriers to health and healthcare-seeking of refugee populations

CHB 523 Introduction to Program Planning and Evaluation

• Prioritize the health needs of a marginalized community.
• Design a causal, intervention or impact theory to address existing community health needs.
• Recommend a detailed evaluation design for a community health intervention or program.

CHB 528 The Public Health Practice of Tobacco Control

Analyze community-based tobacco control strategies of price increases, smoke-free air legislation, minors' access legislation, and mass media campaigns.

CHB 530 A Public Health Perspective on Addiction

• Critique the merits and faults of a model or theory of addiction.
• Evaluate factors of the socioecological model for their effects on substance use/substance use disorder outcomes.

CHB 532 Harm Reduction

• Compare and contrast abstinence based versus harm reduction approaches to addition.

EEH 536 Health Policy

• Critically appraise evidence to understand and evaluate policy effects.
• Identify political processes necessary for public health policy or program design, rulemaking, operating and evaluation.
• Apply principles of strategic planning and marketing to public health and health care policy development.

CS1. Appraise major health issues of refugee populations nationally and locally. (CHB 522 Refugee Health)

CS2. Prioritize the health needs of a marginalized community. (CHB 523 Introduction to Program Planning and Evaluation)

CS3. Evaluate major barriers to health and health-care-seeking of refugee populations. (CHB 522 Refugee Health)

CS4. Evaluate how ageism influences health outcomes. (CHB 513 A Public Health Perspective on Aging)

CS5. Recommend community-based resources for addressing health problems in diverse aging populations. (CHB 513 A Public Health Perspective on Aging)