Systems Thinking In Public Health
This course introduces students to systems thinking and system models in public health. Problems in public health and health policy are often complicated, involving several individuals, organizations, and risk factors. When an outcome is dependent on multiple interacting and adapting pieces and actors, typical statistical approaches cannot be used to assess or forecast the outcome. Systems thinking is a fundamental ability in public health that assists health officials in developing programs and policies that are aware of and prepared for unforeseen outcomes.
The activity of integrating diverse views and synthesizing them into a framework or model that can describe and anticipate the various ways in which a system may react to policy change is an essential aspect of systems thinking. Systems thinking and systems modeling provide techniques to account for the complexities of the current world.
The World Health Organization's Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research organized this effort, which was funded by the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. The Department for International Development (DFID) gave further funding to the Future Health Systems research collaboration through a grant (PO5467).
This course offers:
- Flexible deadlines
- Shareable Certificate
- 100% online
- Approx. 15 hours to complete
- Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Coursera rating: 4.6/5
Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/systems-thinking
