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Module 1: Lesson 1: Core Concepts | What Is Behavioral Science & How Does It Relate to Public Health? | Read the entire article. (14 minutes) Ohio University - 2020 |
Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England | Read content under Chapter 4 What are behavioural and social sciences? What key frameworks do they offer public health practitioners? (19 minutes) Public Health England - 2018 |
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Models and Theories to Support Health Behavior Intervention and Program Planning | Read the entire document. (15 minutes) Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences - 2015 |
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Social and Behavioral Theories | Read the entire resource. (31 minutes) NIH - 2008 |
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Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice (Second Edition) | Read the content on the section “Part 1” on pages 4-7, and “Part 3” on pages 36-46. (15 minutes) National Cancer Institute - 2012 |
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Behavioral and Social Sciences Research | Read the Introduction. (11 minutes) The National Academies Press - 2011 |
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Module 2: Lesson 1: Identifying Social and Behavioral Factors that Affect Health | Social Determinants and Health Behaviors: Conceptual Frames and Empirical Advances | Read the entire article. (16 minutes) NCBI - 2015 |
Social Determinants of Health | Read the entire page. (10 minutes) HealthyPeople - 2020 |
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The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes | Read the content under "The Impacts of Socioeconomic and Other Social Factors on Most Health Outcomes" And "Multiple Mechanisms Explain Impacts of Socioeconomic and Other Social Factors on Health" (16 minutes) Public Health Reports - 2014 |
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Predicting mortality from 57 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors | Read the entire article. (37 minutes) PNAS - 2020 |
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Module 2: Lesson 2: Identifying Social and Community Factors that Affect Health | Theory at a Glance: A Guide for Health Promotion Practice (Second Edition) | Read content on the section “Part 2” on pages 10-33. (20 minutes) National Cancer Institute - 2012 |
Social Ecological Approaches to Individuals and Their Contexts: Twenty Years of Health Education & Behavior Health Promotion Interventions | Read the entire article. (31 minutes) SagePub Journal - 2012 |
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Physical and Social Environmental Factors | Read the entire article. (37 minutes) National Research Council - 2013 |
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Addressing Societal Factors to Improve Health Equity | Read the entire article. (5 minutes) American Hospital Association - 2020 |
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Social and behavioral health responses to COVID‑19: lessons learned from four decades of an HIV pandemic | Read from the title "Abstract" to the title "Community", ¨Society¨ and ¨Conclusion¨(9 minutes) Springer Science - 2020 |
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About Behavioral and Social Sciences Research | Read the entire flyer. (10 minutes) NIH - 2020 |
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The Importance of Considering the Social Determinants of Health | Read the entire article (6 minutes) AJMC - 2016 |
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Building Healthy Community Environments: A Public Health Approach | Read content from "A Framework for Healthy Communities" to end. (11 minutes) Journal Article - 2018 |
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Section 5. Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Development | Read content from "Why Address Social Determinants of Health and Development" to "Summary". (34 minutes) Community Tool Box - 2013 |
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Addiction and the brain | The Royal Society | Watch the enitre video This lecture reviewed some of Professor Everitt and his group’s research on the behavioural neuroscience of addiction in experimental animals that seeks to understand the neural and psychological mechanisms of addictive behaviour, including the nature of vulnerability as well as the possibility of developing new treatments. (53 minutes) |
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The Impact of Social and Cultural Environment on Health | Read content under the following headings: "Social Networks, Social Support, and Health" and "Aspects of Health Influenced by the Social Environment". (13 minutes) Institute of Medicine (US) - 2006 |
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Module 3: Lesson 1: Applying Ethical Principles in the Process of Intervention | Global Health Ethics Key Issues | Read the content on Section "A. Introduction to health ethics key concepts" on pages 10-11. (9 minutes) WHO - 2015 |
Public health Code of Ethics | Read the content under Section 2 on pages 5-6. (4 minutes) APHA - 2019 |
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Public Health Ethics | Read entire page. Click on the cases at the end of the page and read. (30 minutes) UW Medicine - 2018 |
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An Ethics Framework for Public Health | Read Section under "An Ethics Framework for Public Health" (31 minutes) NIH - 2001 |
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Global Health Ethics, Key Issues | Read the content under the heading "What are key ethical issues in public health?"on the pages 14-20. (7 minutes) WHO - 2015 |
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Improving government policy on risk: Eight key principles | Read the summarised points under "Eight key principles guiding governments on how to deal with risk" (2 minutes) Elsevier - 2018 |
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Public Policy and Behavior Change | Read the content under "Policy Instruments to Stimulate Behavior Change" (3 minutes) Public Administration Review - 2019 |
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Human Rights in Public Health | Read from the title "Developing health-related human rights" to the title "A critical time for human rights in public health". (12 minutes) PMC National Institues of Health - 2018 |
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Individual Rights and the Public’s Health: Constitutional, Ethical, and Political Aspects of COVID-19 Measures and Their Enforcement. | Read the entire article. (6 minutes) The Network for Public Health Law - 2021 |
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Public Obligation and Individual Freedom: How to Fill the Gap? The Case of Vaccinations | Read the entire article. (11 minutes) Journal of Public Health Research - 2016 |
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Ethicist Weighs in on Tension Between Public Health and Private Liberty | Read the entire article. (12 minutes) Davidson - 2020 |
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Module 4: Lesson 1: Role and efficacy of social and behavioural science in public health interventions. | Public Health Interventions | Read the section "Public health interventions, defined" (4 minutes) Minnesota Department of Health Center for Public Health Practice - 2019 |
Public Health Policy: Definition, Examples, and More | Read the entire article. (4 minutes) Columbia University - 2021 |
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Read the content under the sections "Social Context", and "Aligning individual and collective interests" (22 minutes) Nature Human Behaviour - 2020 |
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A Strategic Plan for Strengthening America's Families: A Brief from the Coalition of Behavioral Science Organizations | Read the content under the headings "The Impact of these Conditions on Parents", "The Impact of Disadvantage on Children", and "A Wealth of Evidence-Based Family and School Interventions" (16 minutes) Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review - 2020 |
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Using Behavioral Science to promote sustainable community development: From individuals to groups and communities | Read the content under the heading "Community as a Whole" (4 minutes) Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences - 2017 |
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Public Health Interventions: Practice Levels | Read the section 'Public health practice levels'. (2 minutes) Minnesota Department of Health Center for Public Health Practice - 2019 |
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Applying the Social and Behavioral Sciences to Policy and Practice | Read the entire article. (19 minutes) Issues in Science and Technology - 2013 |
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice | Watch the entire webinar This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools in order to best help individuals affected by SUDs. (92 minutes) |
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Module 5: Lesson 1: Planning and Implementation of Public Health Programs, Policies and Interventions | Why Study Social and Behavioral Factors in Public Health? | Read the content under "Case study" and "Social Ecology of health Model" on pages 12-15 (11 minutes) SagePub - 2009 |
Introduction to Special Issue on Social Ecological Approaches to Community Health Research and Action | Read the content under the heading "Abstract", "Introduction". (3 minutes) American Journal of Community Psychology - 2009 |
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Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England | Read content under Chapter 3 "What can behavioural and social Public Health England - 2018 |
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Introduction to Program Evaluation for Public Health Programs: A Self-Study Guide | Read the content for Step 1: Engage Stakeholders. (11 minutes) CDC - 2015 |
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Planning health promotion programs | Read from page 1 to page 6. (10 minutes) Public Health Ontario - 2015 |
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Multi-Level, Multi-Component Approaches to Community Based Interventions for Healthy Living—A Three Case Comparison | Read from 3.3.4. Build Synchronization across Levels to the end of the Conclusion. (16 minutes) NIH - 2016 |
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Six Components Necessary for Effective Public Health Program Implementation | Read the entire article. (28 minutes) PMC National Institutes of Health - 2014 |
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Theory and methods: Six steps in quality intervention development | Read the steps 1-6. (16 minutes) Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health - 2016 |
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The Challenge of Behaviour Change and Health Promotion | Read the entire article. (11 minutes) MDPI - 2017 |
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A Translational Journey: From Basic Behavioral Science to Interventions for Addictive Behaviors | Watch the entire video. The video describes a translational research program that explores the application of basic behavioral findings on delay discounting, decision science, and the neural underpinnings of these processes to the development of interventions for alcohol and drug abuse, obesity, and other behavioral risk factors. (60 minutes) |
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Behavioral Health Interventions: What Works and Why? | Read content from beginning until "National Interventions". (44 minutes) National Academies Press - 2004 |
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At A Glance: The six steps for planning a health promotion program | Read the entire page. (5 minutes) Public Health Ontario - 2015 |
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Social and Behavioral Change Communication: Programming and Barriers to Implementation in Developing Countries | Read the content under "Barriers to Behavioral Change". (6 minutes) South American Journal of Public Health - 2014 |
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Module 5: Lesson 2: Evaluation of Public Health Programs, Policies and Interventions | Building Our Understanding: Key Concepts of Evaluation What is it and how do you do it? | Read content under "What is evaluation?" and "What type of evaluation should I conduct?". (5 minutes) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 2011 |
Evaluation . | Click on the tab at the top of the webpage titled "Evaluation". Read the content of that web page. Then, click on the links at the bottom of the web page titled "Evaluation Types and Methods", "Preparing and Evaluation Plan", and "Evaluating your Partnership". Read the content of those links as well. (13 minutes) Missouri Department of Health - 2011 |
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4 Steps to an Evaluation Plan | Read the entire page. (3 minutes) NIH - 2016 |
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Fundamentals of Evaluating Partnership Guide | Read the content on pages 7 to 10. (12 minutes) CDC - 2008 |
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The Role of Behavioral Science Theory in Development and Implementation of Public Health Interventions | Read content under "Reviews of Theory use in Interventions" Pages 5 to 12. (28 minutes) Annual Review of Public Health - 2010 |
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American Evaluation Association Statement On Cultural Competence In Evaluation and Essential Practices for Cultural Competence | Read the content under "The Role of Culture and Cultural Competence in Quality Evaluation". (16 minutes) AEA - 2011 |
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Tools for Implementing an Evidence-Based Approach in Public Health Practice | Read the entire article. (29 minutes) CDC - 2012 |
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Evidence-Based Practice in Health | Read the entire article. (6 minutes) University of Canberra - 2021 |
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Final Assignment | Understanding and Describing the Community | Read the entire article. (52 minutes) Center for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas - 2021 |
Intervention Mapping: Theory- and Evidence-Based Health Promotion Program Planning: Perspective and Examples | Read the entire article before attempting the assignment. (30 minutes) Fronteirs in Public Health - 2019 |
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