Course Details

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Course ID
025
Course Title
DHA Public Health: Essentials of Health Promotion Course
Sponsor
DHA Public Health
Target Audience
Health Promotion Officers, Force health protection, and healthcare professionals seeking to improve their Health competencies.
Description

“DHA Public Health: Essentials of Health Promotion” is health promotion course designed to equip learners with knowledge and skills to improve the health and well-being of warfighters and military communities. The course is comprised of six online, on-demand, self-paced modules.  The course was created for DoD public health, prevention, force health protection, and healthcare professionals seeking to improve their health promotion competencies.

Course Content and Objectives:

Students will learn evidence-informed health promotion practices and develop competencies in areas of practice like community health assessment and improvement, program planning, evaluation, health communication, and more.    

The course modules are:

  1. Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning  
  2. Program Planning I: Goals and SMART Objectives
  3. Program Planning II: Logic Models as a Tool in Public Health Planning and Evaluation  
  4. Data and Evaluation I: Overview of Program Evaluation  
  5. Data and Evaluation II: Data Collection  
  6. Communication Campaigns for Health Promotion and Wellness   

See DHA Public Health: Essentials of Health Promotion Course Overview for details.  

Estimated Time for Completion: 3.5 hours.  The course may be completed all at once or over multiple sessions.  

Credits: 3.0 CE/CMEs and Certificates of Completion are available for successfully completing the full course. For more information about continuing education credits for this course, visit the course information page on the Continuing Education Program Office (CEPO) website.

 

Remarks

Accessing the Course:  This course is housed on the JKO VCLASS (Virtual Classroom) Learning Management System. 

Follow the instructions on the JKO tipsheet or complete the following steps to find and join the course:

1. Log-in to JKO Learning Management System.

2. On the JKO homepage, select “VCLASS,” which is located immediately below the banner at the top of the page.

3. Select the “Enter Classroom” button to enter VCLASS

4. Select the “Membership” tab in the lefthand column of the page

5. Select the “Joinable Sites” tab, type in the course name (Essentials of Health Promotion), and select the “Search” button

6. After selecting “Search,” the course will appear.  Select the “Join Now” button and you will join and have access to the course.  

Contact Questions and requests for support may be sent to the course administrators at: dha.apg.Pub-Health-A.mbx.essentials-of-health-promotion@health.mil.

Course Schedule
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