Week 1: Getting our feet wet in the literature

Key questions:

What is KT, according to the mainstream Pop Health literature?

What has been the role of social movements in the history of public health, and how does this related to the profession's core values, concepts, functions and leadership roles?

Course material this week contributes to the following Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) recommended core competencies:

ASPPH Competency Bullet 3: Systems thinking regarding the dynamic interactions among sectors, organizations, and actors with which public health professionals interact to achieve health improvements, drawing (from ASPPH Competency Bullet 1) on the history and philosophy of public health as well as its core values, concepts, functions and leadership roles.

ASPPH Competency Bullet 9: Approaches to advocating for public health policies; familiarity with ethical and economic dimensions of health care and public health policy.

ASPPH Competency Bullet 6: Identification and pursuit of opportunities for promoting health and preventing disease across the life span and for enhancing public health preparedness.

NO SEMINAR IN WEEK 1

Readings

Since we miss a seminar in the first week due to Labour Day (and we will miss seminars on Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day), please begin your reading in week 1.  The following material will be referred to at the seminar on September 10, as will be the reading assigned in week 2.

Graham, Ian D, et al. 2006. "Lost in Knowledge Translation:  Time for a Map?" The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 26 (1):13-24.  Please Skim

Brown, Theodore M, and Elizabeth Fee. 2014. "Social Movements in Health." Annual Review of Public Health 35:385–398.