Institution | KIT, Amsterdam | SOPH, Cape Town |
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Goal | KIT’s program is designed to develop the capacity of senior health managers to use an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to addressing the health problems in their country. | SOPH’s program aims to shift mid-level health professionals from a curative/clinical orientation to a public health preventive and promotive paradigm at population level. |
Learning objectives | • Analyze the health status of a community, the performance of its health care system, and the contextual factors that influence both; | • Identify, quantify, and prioritize the health problems and needs of communities; |
• Identify points at which interventions can be made to improve health and the health care system; | • Use the primary health care approach to design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive and participatory programs to address these needs; | |
• Plan such interventions and implement them; | • Conduct health system research to improve quality of care; | |
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed activities. | • Demonstrate leadership in transforming the health and welfare systems. | |
Modules | 2004–2009 | Core modules (2004–2009) |
Determinants of Health/Introduction to Public Health | Health Development and Primary Health Care II | |
Epidemiology | Measuring Health and Disease II—Intermediate Epidemiology | |
Statistics | Understanding Public Health | |
Organisational Behaviour and Changea | Health Systems Research II | |
Health, Policy and Management | Mini-thesis of 7 500–20 000 words | |
Health Policy and Management Planning | ||
Health Promotiona | Plus two electives from the list below, i.e., six modules in total | |
Human Resources Development | ||
Health Systems Research | Elective modules (2004–2009) | |
Health Policy and Financing | Stream 1—Health Promotion | |
Nutritiona | Health Promotion II; Alcohol Problems: A Health Promotion Approach; Health Promoting Schools: Putting Vision into Practice; Health Promoting Settings: A Partnership Approach to Health Promotion | |
Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS | Stream 2—Health Research | |
Disease Control | Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Development Programs; Survey Methods: Designing Questionnaires; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Using Information for Effective Management I | |
From 2007–2009: choice of last 3 modules between: | ||
General | Stream 3—Health Information: | |
Health Policy and Financing | Using Information for Effective Management I; Survey Methods: Designing Questionnaires; Qualitative Research Methods | |
Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS | ||
Disease Control | ||
HIV Specialisation | Stream 4—Health Management | |
Local Responses to HIV/AIDSb | Health Management II; Using Information for Effective Management I; Managing Human Resources for Health | |
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDSb | ||
Policy Politics and Governance of HIV/AIDSb | ||
Stream 5—Nutrition | ||
Public Health Nutrition: Policy and Programming; Micronutrient Malnutrition; Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases | ||
Stream 6—Human Resources | ||
Introduction to Human Resources Development in the Health Sector; Managing Human Resources for Health | ||
Other Electives | ||
Advanced Epidemiology: Measuring Health and Disease III; Children, Health & Wellbeing: A Cultural Perspective; Community Involvement in Health; Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology; Diet and Diseases Epidemiology and Control of HIV/AIDS & TB; Health and Social Change; Maternal and Child Health; Promoting Rational Drug Use in the Community; Women’s Health and Well-being |