Improving the quality of healthcare services in resource limited settings
Description: By the end of this course participants will be able to: • Defend the importance of improving quality in health services • Describe common mechanisms to improve quality of health services in...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-01-11
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits

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Disease Control: Strategies and Policies
Description: By the end of this course participants will be able to: • Analyze and critically discuss policies and principles, to the control of various communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-01
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits

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Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in disease control programs
Description: The aim of the course is to provide participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills enabling them to use open source GIS software for improved planning and performance of disease surveillance...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-21
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits

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Principles and Practices of Injury Prevention
Description: At the end of the module students will be able to: • Describe and appraise the concepts and epidemiology of injury. • Critically analyze and interpret data concerning injury problems...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-21
Institution: Vietnam - Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH)
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits

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Climate change and health
Description: By the end of the module, students should be able to: • Define the scientific basis for climate change and explain the basic concepts. • Critically analyse key climate change concepts and...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-02-03
Institution:
ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits

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Disability and Development (not running in 2020)
Description: At the end of the module students will be able to: - Compare historical terminology and definitions of disability and how contemporary models and concepts have evolved in parallel with other...
Classification: advanced optional
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ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits

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Collecting and using data: Essentials of quantitative survey research (dates tbc))
Description: This module aims to ensure that students can think critically about all aspects of designing and applying a quantitative survey. At the end of the module students should be able to...
Classification: advanced optional
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ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits

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Research in Action: the qualitative approach
Description: At the end of the module students will be able to: - design a qualitative study and write a protocol describing all aspects of this - develop qualitative research questions collect qualitative...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-01-13
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ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits

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Perinatal Epidemiology and Maternal Health
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: • Summarize and discuss key issues in current debates on perinatal and maternal care in developing countries. • Describe the epidemiology...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-03-16
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ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits

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Nutrition and Public Health
Description: At the end of the module students will be able: - Outline and describe the importance of nutrition and malnutrition to global public health, the global prevalence of malnutrition, trends and future...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-03-16
Institution:
ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits

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