Module 1. Introduction to Public Health

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MD, MPH · Public Health course director
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Judi Marcin, MD, MFA
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Chaise Zozaya
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Module 1 defines public health and introduces students to core functions of public health.

Module 1

  1. 10 Essential Public Health Services. APHA.
  2. Examples of How SDOH Can Be Addressed Through the 10 EPHS. CDC.
  3. Perry IA. Assessment, Policy Development, and Assurance: Evolving the Core Functions of Public Health to Address Health Threats. AJPM Focus. 2023 Dec 4;3(1):100172. doi: 10.1016/j.focus.2023.100172. PMID: 38249788; PMCID: PMC10797537.
  4. The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System 2024: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations. Trust for America’s Health.
  5. DeSalvo KB, Wang YC, Harris A, Auerbach J, Koo D, O’Carroll P. Public Health 3.0: A Call to Action for Public Health to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century. Prev Chronic Dis 2017;14:170017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd14.170017.
  6. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health. The Future of Public Health. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1988. 3, A History of the Public Health System. .
  7. Tulchinsky TH, Varavikova EA. A History of Public Health. The New Public Health. 2014:1–42. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415766-8.00001-X. Epub 2014 Oct 10. PMCID: PMC7170188.
  8. Ross C. Brownson, Thomas A. Burke, Graham A. Colditz, and Jonathan M. Samet.
    Reimagining Public Health in the Aftermath of a Pandemic    . American Journal of Public Health 110, 1605_1610, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305861.
  9. County Health Rankings and Roadmaps.
  10. D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM; Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM; DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG. What is epidemiology? Epidemiology for the uninitiated. The BMJ.
  11. Lesson 1. Introduction to Epidemiology. CDC.
  12. AFMC Primer on Population Health.
  13. Kindig D. What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Population Health? Health Affairs.
  14. Online MPH and Teaching Public Health Modules. Boston University.