Table 1 Title of web-based learning modules, optional group session, and their objectives

Web-based learning modules

1. Recall your great experiencing as a public health nurse

To understand the theoretical concept of program development, to efficiently solve the health issues of individuals and the community.

To rediscover the role of PHNs through reflection of their own practice.

To build motivation of participation.

2. Finding time to think about program planning within your busy work schedule

To understand the necessity of maximizing the efficiency of their daily practices.

To understand the needs of preventive intervention by PHNs.

3. Identifying community health needs through analyzing the people who require a large amount of the time and help of PHNs

To clarify the health needs of the people who require a large amount of time and help from the PHNs.

To analyze the causal relationships of the community health need.

4. Organizing the evidences to confirm the necessity of program development

To understand the evidences to confirm the necessity of program development and how to collect such evidence.

5. Developing a partnership with your colleagues and collaborators for promoting a program planning

To understand the key community stakeholders and collaborators of program planning.

To share the community agenda and to build a consensus with the collaborators.

6. Breaking the difficulty of obtaining budget

To understand the budget for developing a new program.

To understand the necessity in cost-benefit-analysis of program planning.

7. Common mistakes for analyzing a communith health need

To understand the common mistakes for analyzing a community health need.

8. Common mistakes for developing a proposal of a new health program

To understand the common mistakes for developing a proposal of a new health program.

Optional group session

1. Identifying community health needs and developing a proposal of a new health program

Through face-to-face group sessions, participants will analyze and identify community health needs.

Identifying the necessity of evidence which will support the existence of community health needs, and discuss about ways to fulfill them.

Creating their proposal of a new health program: methods, expected effects, plan of evaluation indicators.