221.661.01
Project Development for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries
Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2012 - 2013
Instruction Method
TBD
M, W, 3:30 - 5:20pm
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
220.601
Supplements 220.601 by focusing on the practical problems in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of primary health care programs in developing countries. Students design a primary health care program addressing community participation, needs assessment, training and supervision of CHWs, approaches to sustainability, logistics of service delivery, monitoring, and evaluation, and present them to the class.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- write realistic, appropriate and measurable project objectives
- develop an implementation strategy for a primary health care project
- create a health monitoring and evaluation component for the project
- write a budget and the narrative summary for the project you have designed
- conduct a 30-cluster household survey measuring child health indicators