Primary Health Care and Global Health (POPH90131)

Intended learning outcomes

• Describe the core principles and elements of successful primary health care in resource-constrained settings, and use these principles as an analytic tool in planning and evaluating responses to current global health issues;
• Develop systems-oriented strategies for improving primary health care using at least two frameworks for understanding health systems in resource-constrained settings;
• Describe the importance, variety and roles of community health workers and their appropriate deployment as a response to resource-constraints in health care delivery;
• Explain and analyse the role of global agencies; aid and development modalities and other international health interventions in the planning, delivery and evaluation of primary health care
• services in resource-constrained settings;
• Summarise and critique options for resourcing primary health care, including two or more financing models appropriate to resource-constrained settings;
• Describe the role of community knowledge, attitudes and practices and health care seeking behaviours in primary health care, and how these factors can be assessed and incorporated into programs.

Generic skills

Upon completion of this subject, students will have developed skills in:

• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• Working with others and in teams
• Problem-solving
• Oral communication skills
• Finding, evaluating and using relevant information
• Written communication skills