Module 1. Course Overview and Introduction to Population Health Interventions  

Learning Activities

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Introduction

• 1a. Introduction
• 1b. Overview of Assignments  Transcript

What is Population Health?

• 1c. What is Population Health?
• Course Reserve: Kindig, D., & Stoddart, D. (2003). What is population health? American Journal of Public Health, 93(3), 380–383.

Why Take a Population Health Approach?

• 1d. Why Take a Population Health Approach?

Individual (Clinical) vs. Population Interventions

• 1e. Individual (Clinical) vs Population Interventions
• Course Reserve: Rose, G. (1992). The population strategy of prevention. In The strategy of preventive medicine (pp. 95–106). New York: Oxford University Press.

Do Population Health Strategies Increase Social Inequities in Health?

• Reflect: One of the key concerns arising from Rose’s theory is that population-wide strategies may inadvertently heighten social inequities in health by disproportionately benefiting lower-risk individuals, many of whom may have higher levels of income or education than higher-risk individuals. As a result, population health strategies may increase the dispersion or skew of the population distribution for a particular illness. Do you think this is the case, and, if so, what can be done to deal with this potential limitation?
• Course Reserve: Frohlich K.L., & Potvin L. (2008). The inequality paradox: The population approach and vulnerable populations. American Journal of Public Health, 98(2), 216–221.
• Course Reserve: McLaren, L., McIntyre, L., & Kirkpatrick, S. (2009). Rose’s population strategy of prevention need not increase social inequalities in health. International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(2), 372–377.

Optional Readings

• Course Reserve: Brownson, R.C., Fielding, J.E., & Maylahn, C.M. (2009). Evidence-based public health: A fundamental concept for public health practice. Annual Review of Public Health, 30, 175–201.
• Course Reserve: Potvin & Jones (2011). Twenty-five years after the Ottawa Charter: The critical role of health promotion for public health. Canadian Journal of Public Health.