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Health in Resource-constrained Settings (POPH90252)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
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Tropical disease mostly occurs in low and middle income countries where health resources are generally constrained. Practitioners of tropical health must be equipped to meet the many challenges of practising in resource constrained settings and be ready to engage in innovative and effective responses.
This 12.5-point subject is a core subject of the Graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H). A range of presentations and interactive activities will cover:
- disease surveillance, prevention and control,
- outbreak investigation and response,
- measuring health status of communities,
- helping health workers learn,
- district health systems and district services management,
- management of small health facilities,
- management of vaccine programmes,
- issues of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH),
- maternal and newborn care (MNCH), and
- management of undernutrition.
This subject will be taught on campus in block mode over 5 days.
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of this subject students should be able to:
- design and implement strategies for disease monitoring, surveillance, prevention, investigation and control.
- facilitate training and other methods to build capacity of health workers in resource-constrained settings.
- describe systems of health specific to low and middle income countries.
Generic skills
Upon completion of this subject, students should have developed skills in:
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Working with others and in teams
- Initiative, autonomy and organisation
- Problem-solving
- Oral communication
- Finding, evaluating and using relevant information
- Written communication
- Decision-making
- Leadership
- Persuasion and argumentation
- Using computers and relevant software
Last updated: 3 November 2022