Course Coordinator: Prof. dr. Siswanto Agus Wilopo, SU, MSc, ScD
Course Description:
Population and family health is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population and family groups. In order to reach these objectives, it looks at and acts upon the broad range of factors and conditions that have a strong influence on our health. A population health approach reflects a shift in our thinking about how health is defined. The population health approach is positioned in the public health service as a unifying force for the entire spectrum of health system interventions -from prevention and promotion to health protection, diagnosis, treatment and care - and integrates and balances action between them. The approach is integral to the government’s role of improving the health of people.
The notion of health as a positive concept signifying more than the absence of disease and infirmity, led initially to identifying it as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. The population health approach recognizes that health is a capacity or resource rather than a state, a definition which corresponds more to the notion of being able to pursue one's goals, to acquire skills for works and education, and to grow. This broader notion of health recognizes the range of social, economic and physical environmental factors that contribute to health. The best articulation of this concept of health is "the capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or control life's challenges and changes". A population and family health approach has the potential to not only improve health status, but to contribute to the overall sustainability of the health care system. This course covers topics on concepts of health and its determinants; assessing and measuring health status at the population and family levels; interventions at the population and family levels; and administration of effective health programs at the population and family levels.
Course Aims/Objectives:
This course will enable student to focus on the health status and inequities of populations and families health, address the determinants of health and their interactions, makes decisions based on evidence, apply multiple strategies for the intervention, employ mechanisms for public involvement, collaborates across sectors and levels, increases upstream investments and demonstrate accountability for health outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Assesses health status over the lifespan at the population and family levels.
- Evaluate the determinants of health and their interactions to health status and inequities at population and family levels.
- Assess the importance of evidences of health status, the determinants of health and the effectiveness of interventions for assessing health inequities
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for identifying priorities, policies and strategies to improve population and family health.
- Construct diagram of framework which integrate activities across a wide range of interventions, from health care to prevention, protection, health promotion and action on the determinants of health.
- Formulate the importance of citizens that should be provided opportunities to contribute to the development of health priorities and the review of health-related outcomes.
- Argue the importance of shared responsibility and accountability for health outcomes with sectors and levels whose activities directly or indirectly impact on health or the factors known to influence it.
- Justify the improvement of population health is maximized by directing increased efforts and investments 'upstream' to maintain health and address the root causes of health and illness.
- Interpret health outcomes are actually attributed by health and social-economic interventions which parts of social-determinants of health.