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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
2016 - 2017
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
M, W, 3:30 - 5:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite
Description
Focuses 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 Community Health Workers, approaches to sustainability, logistics of service delivery, monitoring, and evaluation, and presents the program to the class.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Write realistic, appropriate and measurable project objectives
  2. Develop an implementation strategy for a primary health care project
  3. Create a health monitoring and evaluation component for the project
  4. Write a budget and the narrative summary for the project you have designed
  5. Conduct a 30-cluster household survey measuring child health indicators