Scroll down and under the heading titled "Activities and Modules" click on the link titled "Module 3 - Identifying Health Problems". Read through the slides in order to learn how to identify health problems. Lecture notes are available for download.

Read the article titled "Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Guideline Development: 2. Priority Setting." This article describes a broad spectrum of criteria for setting priorities and suggests those that should be used.

Read the web page to learn about qualitative methods to assess the health condition.

Read the section titled "Step 3: Collect Data" to learn how to conduct a community assessment.

Read the article titled "The Jerusalem Experience: Three Decades of Service, Research, and Training in Community-Oriented Primary Care" in order to gain a better understanding of how the COPC process works (as in the Jerusalem example). Examine Figure 1 which clearly illustrates the COPC cycle.

 In "Chapter 19" read the content of "Section 1. Criteria for Choosing Promising Practices and Community Interventions" under the "Main Section" and "Checklist" tabs. These pages from The Community Tool Box provide a comprehensive overview of criteria as well as qualitative and quantitative methods you should consider when designing an intervention, . Furthermore, this resource provides information on locating other current interventions and quantitative and qualitative methods.

In "Chapter 19. Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions" read the content of the "Main Section" tab for both “Section 4. Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities” and “Section 5. Ethical Issues in Community Interventions.”  These sections will help you think about how culture and ethical issues can affect community interventions. These issues are critical elements to consider especially for an outsider working in a foreign community. However, they are also important factors to keep in mind when working within your own community.

In "Chapter 18. Deciding Where to Start" read the content under the heading “Main Section" of both “Section 1. Designing Community Interventions” and “Section 2. Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions.” These webpages in the ‘Community Tool Box’ outline the methods to construct a community intervention as well as the participatory approaches to planning one.

Use "Chapter 5: Assessing Evidence and Information" as an additional resource to read more about the different types of research (qualitative and quantitative), the measures of risk, and the associated bias. Please note that the source is not written from a COPC perspective but can act as a supplement to develop a better understanding about evidence collection and analysis.