CLINICAL PREVENTION & POPULATION HEALTH CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
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The Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework provides a common core of knowledge for clinical health professions about individual and population‐oriented prevention and health promotion efforts. The Framework can support interprofessional prevention education and practice and consists of 4 components and 23 domains, with each domain including topic areas and illustrative examples.
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Workgroups comprised of 47 faculty experts across the health professions drafted revisions to the Framework to be released for public comment in December 2025.

Foundations of Population Health

Quantitative and analytic skills used to assess, compare, describe, and monitor the health of populations.

Clinical Preventive Services & Health Promotion

Evidence-based, health promotion and disease prevention interventions in the clinical setting.

Clinical Practice & Population Health

Opportunities and disciplines that require individual- and population-based health perspectives.

Health Systems & Health Policy

Systems and policies that help to govern the health and healthcare system, including collaborations between the clinical care and public health communities.
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The Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework is a product of the interprofessional Healthy People Curriculum Task Force convened by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research.  The mission of the Task Force is to increase the inclusion of core clinical prevention and population health content and interprofessional learning experiences in health professions education.

Suggested citation: 
“Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework.” Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. February 2020. https://www.teachpopulationhealth.org/. 
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  • Home
  • Components
    • Component 1
    • Component 2
    • Component 3
    • Component 4
  • Background
    • About Framework
    • About Task Force
  • Healthy People
  • Resources
    • Teaching Tools >
      • Interprofessional Outbreak Module
      • Interprofessional Assessment
      • SDOH Case Studies
    • Recommended Materials >
      • Social Determinants of Health
      • Health Literacy
    • Companion Documents >
      • Journal Articles
      • Accreditation Initiatives
      • Exemplars