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221.635.01
Advances in Community-Oriented Primary Health Care

Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2017 - 2018
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Tu, Th, 3:30 - 5:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

220.601

We routinely waive the requirement for 220.601- Introduction to International Health. However, students are expected to understand and apply the basic concepts of public health, conduct a literature search on PubMed, and read public health journals.

Description
Introduces students to the origins and recent advances in community-oriented primary health care through case studies from both developing and developed countries. Like clinical bedside teaching, the course uses real cases to help students develop problem-solving skills in practical situations. Program examples include all use community-based approaches to address priority health problems. Focuses strongly on equity and empowerment in all cases discussed.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Describe the key concepts of approaches to Community-Oriented Primary Health Care and illustrate their practical use in program implementation
  2. Demonstrate practical methods of promoting participatory activities in communities and action groups
  3. Comprehend the methods for examining the conditions and practical techniques for developing partnerships to improve bottom-up participation of communities, top-down support by officials and outside-in stimulation by experts
  4. Explore in depth and be able to describe concepts of equity, sustainability, scaling up, community empowerment, and challenges in promoting changes in behaviors and social norms
  5. Describe strategies of multisectoral collaboration and integration within health services and demonstrate the methods for analysis of these strategies
  6. Identify successes and failures or weaknesses of each case study and describe the lessons learned from them
  7. Help students clarify their own values and attitudes in developing partnership relationships with communities and colleagues
  8. Discuss participatory methods in building community capacity to solve priority problems in varied health care settings
  9. Develop skills in learning how to use case studies in their own work and teaching
  10. Facilitate students' ability to scale up community-based succeses from a local situation to general extension