CPH 714 - MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH INFORMATION AND DATA SYSTEMS

College of Public Health

Credits: 3

This course will equip participants with basic skills in identifying, accessing, interpreting and utilizing U.S. maternal and child health data systems at the national and state level. Participants will learn the essential ways that secondary data sources inform public health practice and how to interpret and present information from these sources. They will also learn key skills in data interpretation, data linkage, working with small numbers, stratifying data by population sub- groups and examining trends over time.