| What Public Health Is | Describe public health as a system, including its unique and important features and their role in it, to general audiences. |
| Measuring Health | Apply measures of population health and illness, including risk factors, in community health improvement initiatives. |
| Population Based Prevention | Identify and distinguish public health and prevention strategies from curative strategies for prevalent health problems. |
| Governmental Public Health | Describe the role of law and government in promoting and protecting the health of the public and identify specific functions and roles of governmental public health agencies in assuring population health. |
| Core Functions and EPHS | Identify and explain how various organizations, positions and roles contribute to carrying out public health's core functions and essential services. |
| Public Health Infrastructure | Identify, measure, and assess the components of the public health infrastructure. |
| Public Health Interventions | Apply principles derived from the basic public health sciences to planning, implementing and evaluating public health interventions. |