MPH 542 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

Credit(s): 3

This course provides an overview of a policy adoption and implementation model, including a discussion of factors to consider when developing policies and key components of policy implementation. This course will introduce students to a prevention policy framework; will present the philosophical, ethical, economic, political and efficacy rationale for this approach to prevention; will contrast policy approaches to prevention with individual-based approaches; and will present examples of different policy mechanisms.