Evidence-Based Decision Making in Public Health: Capacity Building for Public Health Students at King Saud University in Riyadh
Table 2
Supporting courses for evidence-based public health in the MPH/SBCM curricula.
Course
Description of relevant contents
Competences learned
Research methodology
The course describes different types of quantitative and qualitative study designs
Characteristics, applications, and limitations of different study design and their uses as evidence as epidemiological tools to detect and quantify public health problems
Health economics
Principles of health economics
(i) Economic evaluation of intervention (ii) Choosing between interventions (iii) Program evaluation
Health policy
Principles of health policy and programs development
Developing and evaluating programs for public health
Health informatics
Surveillance system and registries
Use of local data for quantifying public health problems, monitoring, and evaluation of programs for intervention