Demystifying Data: Accessing, Using, and Interpreting Data in Public Health
Seven-week online, mentored course:
Begins this month and newly updated for 2010!
February 22 - April 11, 2010
For more information or to register:
go to www.mitrainingcenter.org
or
call 734-615-9439
Continuing Education Credits in Nursing (21.0); CHES (17.0); and Social Work (21.0) are being offered.
Course Registration Fee: $135.
Limited scholarship support is available to those working in Michigan-based organizations.
The primary goal of this course is to highlight an evidence-based approach to decision making. The relationship between data and program or policy initiatives is discussed, with a focus on the effective and systematic use of data. Participants will be able to use data to develop a brief statement of the problem, describe the issue quantitatively, and develop data-based program or policy options. The course is designed for those who need to use data in their daily work but may not have considerable training in the use of data.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
· Develop a basic public health problem statement
· Identify common types and sources of data for a public health problem
· Write a SMART objective
· Calculate and interpret the measures of frequency, association, and impact
· Identify sources of error in data
· Incorporate data into projects, programs and policies
Target Audience: Practitioners in local and state health departments, in community-based organizations and health care delivery organizations. No prerequisites are required for this course.
Instructor: Betsy Wasilevich, Ph.D., MPH, Asthma Epidemiologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Genomics, Perinatal Health, and Chronic Disease Epidemiology.
Course Description: This is an online, mentored course that provides narrated presentations, readings, and hands-on exercises over seven weeks. Course registration fee includes course binder containing readings and assignments, a CD-ROM with course media, access to the online course management system, toll-free conference calls with instructor and fellow participants, as well as learning and technical support. We estimate that it will take 21 total hours, or approximately 2 to 4 hours a week to view the class materials online, class preparation, reading and homework assignments.
The Office of Public Health Practice, University of Michigan School of Public Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Planning committee: Angela Beck, MPH, CHES; Larry M. Gant, PhD, LMSW, MSW, MA; Jeanette Kunnath, MEd, BA; Julie McCallum, RN, BSN, MPH; Elizabeth A. Wasilevich, PhD, MPH.
This event is sponsored by the Michigan Public Health Training Center, located at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, in the Office of Public Health Practice. Funding was made possible by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions.