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
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
Resources
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.
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:
- Describe the key concepts of approaches to Community-Oriented Primary Health Care and illustrate their practical use in program implementation
- Demonstrate practical methods of promoting participatory activities in communities and action groups
- 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
- 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
- Describe strategies of multisectoral collaboration and integration within health services and demonstrate the methods for analysis of these strategies
- Identify successes and failures or weaknesses of each case study and describe the lessons learned from them
- Help students clarify their own values and attitudes in developing partnership relationships with communities and colleagues
- Discuss participatory methods in building community capacity to solve priority problems in varied health care settings
- Develop skills in learning how to use case studies in their own work and teaching
- Facilitate students' ability to scale up community-based succeses from a local situation to general extension