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Philosophy of Public Health
In a lecture and two workshops, the PPH SCL will tackle the topics of public participation and the nature of expertise and knowledge.
Methodology
The methodology SCL will involve two working lectures. First, we will introduce the constructivist approach and go into three specific narrative instruments to shape a reality: narrative structure, metaphors, and numbers. Students will practice this by applying this method to a particular policy report. In the second, we will introduce participatory research and consider some examples. We will explain the essential characteristics of this methodology, like openness, engagement, time, flexibility, collaborative interpretation, and evaluation. You will practice this by applying this method to a public health problem. There will be a combined open-question assignment for both topics to be completed in pairs.
Statistics
In two lectures and three SPSS workshops, the students will become acquainted with simple and multiple logistic regression models. First, simple logistic regression is introduced. This allows for studying the relationship between a dichotomous/binary dependent variable and one independent variable. This is then extended to multiple logistic regression analysis, which allows for studying relationships between one dichotomous/binary dependent variable and more independent variables. This extension may be needed to control for the influence that other variables may have on the association of interest (i.e., to correct for confounding). The assessment is based on a short assignment related to analysing a real-life dataset.
Policy Advocacy
In a series of lectures, students will learn about the challenges faced by public health professionals working in policy advocacy at the European and global levels.