1. Identify eras in the historical development of public health and ways that public health emerges in literature and the arts, current events, and everyone's daily life.
2. Illustrate the multidisciplinary, crosscutting, or ecological character of public health and the contributions of a range of discilines and rofessions to improving health.
3. Explain the basic principles of epidemiology, including rates, risk factors, disease determinants, causation, and ublic health surveillance.
4. Explain how public health assesses the options for intervention to improve the health of diverse populations.
5. Explain how public health can utilize health information and health communications to improve the health of populations.
6. Explain how public health can utilize social and behavioral interventions to improventions to improve the health of populations.
7. Explain how public health can utilize health policy and law to improve the health of populations.
8. Explain the impact of the environment and communicable diseases on the health of populations.
9. Explain the burden of chronic diseases on morbidity and mortality and approaches to revention, early detection, and disease management.
10. Identify the roles of public health in addressing the needs of vulnerable populations and health disparities.
11. Identify the roles of public health in disaster prevention and management,.
12. Apply the public health approach-problem, cause, intervention and implementation-to public health problems.
13. Apply principles of health communications and informatics to evaluate the quality of health information on the Internet and in the mass media.
14. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of potential interventions.
15. Analyze the determinants of morbidity and mortality in a new situation.
16. Analyze the degree of success in implementing essential public health services in a new situation.
17. Synthesize the principles and tools of public health as applied to new and existing public health problems.
a. Recognize the importance cultural diversity when developing public health programs.
b. Value the work conducted by public health professionals to keep the public safe.
c. Form sound ethical judgments about the use of public health interventions such as vaccines, fluoride and quarantine.
d. Desire to be a positive force in improving the health and wellbeing of populations.