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Fundamentals of Public Health for MCH Professionals

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This course was produced to provide an overview of public health, its core functions and essential services, for maternal and child health workforce, new agency personnel, and interested others.

Course topics include:

• Have basic knowledge of the history, mission services, and core functions of public health, and the historical trends and foundations of Maternal Child Health (MCH).
• Understand the role of advocacy and social justice in Maternal Child Health Practice.
• Understand models of disease through knowledge of the determinants of health, including social and cultural determinants and the interaction of multi-factorial determinants leading to ill health.
• Understand "population" as a unit of analysis:using MCH populations as examples.
• Understand basic public health and MCH epidemiology and how it relates to program planning.
• Be able to describe the organization and funding of MCH services in the U.S., and to recognize strengths, weakness, and gaps in existing services.
• Have knowledge of basic public health program planning and evaluation for MCH populations, and how these relate to community involvement, policy development and advocacy.
• Be able to identify community, regional, state and national resources related to MCH populations.

Participants will have the opportunity to apply course material to the maternal and child health problems that they are dealing with in their agencies and communities.

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This course is accredited by the Utah Nurses Association, the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC).

This course can be taken in modules, with continuing education credit from 3 contact hours to the full 12 contact hours. Certificates of completion will be awarded per module. Field experience in maternal and child health is assumed, although there are no formal pre-requisites except introductory ability with computers and the Internet.

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Last revision 16 March 2004

Supported in part by Project # 1T02 MC 00022 01, 02, and 03 and #1T21 MC03421-01-00 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.

Rocky Mountain Public Health Education Consortium is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Utah Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Provider #P05-04 for the period 7/1/05-7/1/08. All UNA Members taking our courses will be given a 10% discount.

For NCHEC (National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc.) we are now an "Multiple Event Provider" #MEP2237 for the period of 1/1/05-12/31/08.