In addition to the overall Master of Public Health degree competencies, Public Health Education graduates will be able to:
- Assess individual and community needs for health education;
- Obtain health related data about social and cultural environments, growth and development factors, needs and interests.
- Distinguish between behaviors that foster and those that hinder well-being.
- Infer needs for health education on the basis of obtained data.
- Plan effective health education programs;
- Recruit community organizations, resource people, and potential participants for support and assistance in program planning.
- Develop a logical scope and sequence plan for a health education program.
- Formulate appropriate and measurable objectives.
- Design educational programs consistent with specified program objectives.
- Implement health education programs;
- Exhibit competence in carrying out planned educational programs.
- Infer enabling objectives as needed to implement instructional programs in specified settings.
- Select methods and media best suited to implement program plans for specific learners.
- Evaluate effectiveness of health education programs;
- Develop plans to assess achievement of program objectives.
- Interpret results of program evaluation.
- Infer implications from findings for future program planning.
- Act as a resource person;
- Utilize computerized health information retrieval systems effectively.
- Select effective educational resource materials for dissemination.
- Communicate health and health educational needs, concerns, and resources;
- Interpret concepts, purposes, and theories of health education.
- Predict the impact of societal value systems of health education programs.
- Select a variety of communication methods and techniques in providing health information
- Apply appropriate research principles and methods in health education; and
- Conduct a thorough review of literature.
- Use appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methods.
- Apply research to health education practice.
- Advance the profession of public health education and health promotion.
- Provide a critical analysis of current and future needs.
- Apply ethical principles as they relate to the practice of health education
The above are based on the national competencies and responsibilities identified by the health education profession.