The goal of the Health Promotion track is to prepare students for advanced study or professional work in the fields of community health and health promotion in a wide variety of settings.

Track Learning Competencies

The Health Promotion curriculum prepares students to utilize public health approaches to develop, administer, implement, and evaluate culturally sensitive health promotion and behavior change programs, and to mobilize community resources for planned social change.

Students graduating from this track will be able to:

1. Apply theory in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion interventions, programs, and policies.
2. Develop interventions and programs to effect change at multiple levels, including individual, community, organizations, and policy.
3. Design and implement strategies to promote health.
4. Solicit and integrate input from community and organization stakeholders.
5. Design and deliver health communication messages.
6. Evaluate and interpret results from program evaluations and other research.
7. Define research problems, frame research questions, design research procedures, and outline methods of analysis.
8. Apply ethical principles that govern the practice of public health.
9. Enact cultural competency in diverse social and cultural communities.
10. Develop a substantive area of emphasis.

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Contact Information

Admissions Information

503-725-4401
SCHinfo@pdx.edu

Curricular Information

Stephanie Farquhar, PhD .
Portland State University
School of Community Health
503-725-5167
farquhar@pdx.edu

Related Portland State University web resources

• School of Community Health
• College of Urban & Public Affairs
• Portland State University Home Page

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