Discipline specific competencies of MPH graduate

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Discipline specific competenciesof MPH graduate

• Group 2
• June 25-26, 2003
• Yerevan

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Behavioral sciences
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Group 2

• 8 representatives
• USA, Romania, Israel, Albania, Armenia,
  Uzbekistan, Russia

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Core competences

• Knowledge
• Integrate the psychologic and sociologic
  conceptualization of health, health behavior and
  illness
• compare principles and theories of behavior
  change, analyze their applicability to different
  types of health behavior problems

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Core competencies 2

• Knowledge, Attitudes, skill or behavior or
  performance
• Analyze and predict the influence of major social
  structural divisions such as gender,
  socioeconomic status,and ethnicity on health
  behavior and the treatment of illness
• Formulate behavioral, communication,
  educational,and advocacy strategies for improving
  the health of communities and individuals
• Evaluate processes and outcomes of social and
  behavioral interventions on health

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Level of competencies

• PH-a multidisciplinary field
• Different bachground of students entering
  MPH-program
• Proficient, expert

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Role of competent specialist in behavioral
sciences

• To build a bridge between evidence and practice
  in modern public health
• to put a community diagnosis -defining a problem
  (social epidemiology)

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Some more important skills

• Communication skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Leadership skills
• knowledge of public health system, policy,
  regulation
• ability to work with mass-media, writing
  abilities, for planning effective advertisement

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Effectiveness of PH program depend on (from
behavior sciences point of view)

• Intersectoral approach
• effective work of multidsciplinary team
• the response of the target population based on
  different characteristics many of them should be
  correctly assessed at the planning stage.
• Expectations of people making intervention.

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Disciplines

• Psychology
• sociology
• law
• ethics
• engeneering
• others

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Curricula approaches

• Lectures
• field-work
• group-work with different techniches
• role playing
• case-study - problem-based teaching
• making presentations on different topics, round
  tables
• others

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Assessment

• Short-term
• written exam (theory, training project using one
  of change behavior approaches, critical
  assessment of published material on intrevention)
• assessment of the field work (tutors opinion,
  etc.)

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Assessment 2

• Long-term
• successfull implementation of the program or
  policy and the improvement of health indicators