An Introduction to Population Health course

Posted by ilan | | Thursday 22 May 2014 9:17 am

 

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An Introduction to Population Health is a MOOC Massive Open Online Course, offered by The University of Manchester. The course is led by Aneez Esmail, a general practitioner and professor from The University of Manchester, UK. Together, he and Dr Katie Reed, the Faculty eLearning lead, developed the course with contributions from a number of other academic and technical staff from the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences.

It is aimed at anyone wishing to understand the basics of population health. Our aim is to prompt any participant to reconsider the decisions they make about their own health or the health of others (if they are taking the course as a health professional).

I am very happy to finish this course. The course brought me some insights and the opportunity to reflect about exchanged messages, that is one of the main subjects in my research and a very interesting field for on line tutors, as well.

In addition, I realised the importance of other useful field of research, that is Simulation and Agent-based modelling (ABM). Together with System Dynamics, ABM can be a strong instrument to help to understand emergences during a period and related to a specific population.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkjXQ_r4o4

There are some interesting sources and annotation from my studies in Population Health

14-April-2014
6 weeks
1-3 hours of work / week

Population health is defined ”’as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. (3,4)”’

The starting premise is that having an understanding of health from a population level can enable people to make better decisions about their own health care and can also enable health workers to make better decisions about individuals and populations within their care.

The course is led by Aneez Esmail, a general practitioner and professor from The University of Manchester, UK. Together, he and Dr Katie Reed, the Faculty eLearning lead, developed the course with contributions from a number of other academic and technical staff from the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences.

https://www.coursera.org/course/population

American Journal of Public Health

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.93.3.380

Improving Population Health – blog (image copied from the blog)

http://www.improvingpopulationhealth.org/blog/what-is-population-health.html

Source: http://www.improvingpopulationhealth.org/blog/what-is-population-health.html

Improving Population Health explores current thinking in policy, practice, and research in population health improvement. It is intended to serve as a forum for discussion and a call for action as we consider what all of us—across all sectors—can do to improve the health of our communities.

We encourage the participation of anyone who wants to improve health in their community and beyond, including, but not limited to, policymakers in the public and private sectors, scholars and community leaders, citizens and advocates. Please feel free to share your comments directly on the blog or by contacting us with your suggestions, questions, or concerns.

Improving Population Health is based in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Population Health Sciences and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Editor:David A. Kindig, MD, PhD
Associate Editor: Kirstin Siemering, DrPH, RD
Advisor:  Bridget Booske, PhD, MHSA

Some References:

1. Kindig D, Asada Y, Booske B. (2008). A Population Health Framework for Setting National and State Health Goals. JAMA, 299, 2081-2083.

2. Evans R, Stoddart GC. (1990). Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc. Sci. Med. 33, 1347-1363. http://students.med.mcgill.ca/sites/default/files/content/clubs/mighc/2009/files/lecture04/Evans%201990%20producing%20health%20consuming%20health%20care.pdf

3. Kindig, DA, Stoddart G. (2003). What is population health? American Journal of Public Health, 93, 366-369.
4. Kindig DA. (2007). Understanding Population Health Terminology. Milbank Quarterly, 85(1), 139-161. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.93.3.380

5. Institute of Medicine. (2002). ”’The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century”’. Washington, DC, The National Academies Press. http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2002/The-Future-of-the-Publics-Health-in-the-21st-Century.aspx

6. Health Service Planning – http://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/teaching/health-service-planning

 

The final assessment used the Reflective approach, Reflective Learning Process (see the  schemma on the welcome page  of this website)

https://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/upgrade/study-skills/reflective-gibbs.html

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/medicine/reflective/3.xml

 

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