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General description

The course aims at familiarizing the student with the concept, methods and practices of health promotion evaluation, and at the implementation of this knowledge in population and community interventions.

Learning outcomes

After passing the course the student has acquired the essential skills for public health intervention evaluation. The student is familiar with main approaches used in evaluation research; knows how to evaluate public health interventions done with different methods; is aware of and capable of using principles of economic evaluation; and knows how to choose and implement optimal methods in evaluating measures and programmes used to promote population and community health.

Contents

Challenges of public health and measures to meet them; evaluation as concept; methods of evaluation and choosing optimally between them; economic evaluation as a special form of evaluation; and a course paper done in small groups.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures
Independent work
Exercises

Teaching language

English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
The whole course and lecture exam will be evaluated on the scale 1-5; course entering exam and study paper on the scale passed/failed

Further information

Offered every other year, next time in spring 2015.

Belongs to following study modules