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Table 2 Goals and learning objectives of KIT, Amsterdam, and SOPH, UWC, Cape Town

From: Impact of MPH programs: contributing to health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries?

Institution

KIT, Amsterdam

SOPH, Cape Town

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

  1. aMerged with other modules in 2006–2007
  2. bNames changed