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MPH5248

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Coordinator(s)

Dr Matthew Reeve, Dr Chris Morgan

Offered

Alfred Hospital

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Term 3 2016 (On-campus block of classes)

Synopsis

This subject will provide an overview of the history, principles and practice of primary health care in developing countries, as well as the interaction between primary healthcare and current trends in global health and international development.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. 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;
  2. Develop systems-oriented strategies for improving primary health care using at least two frameworks for understanding health systems in resource-constrained settings;
  3. Describe the importance, variety and roles of community health workers and their appropriate deployment as a response to resource-constraints in health care delivery;
  4. 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;
  5. Summarise and critique options for resourcing primary health care, including two or more financing models appropriate to resource-constrained settings;
  6. Describethe 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

Assessment

Essay (3,500-4,000 words) (70%) (Hurdle)
Group presentation (25 minutes) (10%)
Individual reflection written assignment (1,000 words) (20%)

Workload requirements

5 day intensive block.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Matthew Reeve, Dr Chris Morgan

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Public health

Prerequisites

Basic computer proficiency.

Prohibitions

Students who complete the cross-institutional University of Melbourne subject POPH90137 'Primary Health Care in Jamkhed, India' cannot also claim academic credit from undertaking MPH5248 'Primary Health Care in Global Health', and vice versa.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad