[EQ] Measuring Health Disparities Computer-based Course

Measuring Health Disparities Computer-based Course MHDID0806

Michigan Public Health Training Center (MPHTC) - University of Michigan, School of Public Health

Course Website:  https://www.sph.umich.edu/iscr/mphtc/site.php?module=courses_one_online_course&id=247

 

Blog: http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/mhd/home

 

“…..Measuring Health Disparities is a self-paced, interactive course which focuses on some basic issues for public health practice -- how to understand, define and measure health disparity.

 

This computer-based course examines the language of health disparity to come to some common understanding of what that term means; it also shows how to calculate different measures of health disparity.

 

The purpose of this course is to provide a durable tool that is useful to daily activities in the practice of public health. The content is designed to be accessible to a broad audience of practitioners across all sectors of the public health workforce who are concerned about the issue of health disparity. The material is divided into four parts.

 

Parts One and Two review what health disparities are, how they are defined, and provide an overview of common issues faced in measuring health disparities.
Part Three is technical and introduces users to a range of health disparity measures, providing advantages and disadvantages of each.
Part Four discusses how best to use different measures to communicate and evaluate health disparity in our communities….”

 

To download the course: http://www.sph.umich.edu/mhd/health_disparities.exe

Downloading this file will take an average of five minutes with a high-speed bandwidth. The file is PC-based and is not Macintosh-compatible.
The file size is 68.2 MB.

For instructions on installing this course on your computer click here: Installation

 

Contact MPHTC by phone at 734-615-9439 or e-mail mphtc@umich.edu

 

 

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