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Primary Health Care |
Primary Health Care (PHC) has
been globally accepted as an appropriate strategy for universal coverage of
health care an equitable basis, at an affordable cost with full participation
of the people. Simple technologies have
resulted in substantial reduction of mortality and morbidity and increase in
life expectancy. The national government
has a commitment to adopt PHC philosophy, concepts and contents as a part of
health care system of the country. To fulfill that commitment, there is a need
to train and reorient healthcare personnel about PHC as a strategy, for its
effective and meaningful implementation.
Front-line health care provider
is a very important cadre in any health care system, functioning at the grass
root level. They are in direct contact with the community and know their aspirations
as well as their frustrations. There is a need to orient them with PHC, so that they may use their
potential for the improvement of health of the people in more effective manner.
They would serve as an agent for change when equipped with necessary
knowledge and skills.
This course has been designed
to orient front-line health care providers with PHC philosophy, concepts and
contents, so that they can function more productively. They are already equipped with certain knowledge
and hand on experience, the aim is to build on what they already know, so that
the training program will complement their knowledge and skills.
By the end of the course, the
participants would be able to:
Ø Understand PHC as a concept and learn how to apply it in
the field.
Ø Describe PHC components, strategies and its significance
and application.
Ø Improve skills related to the functioning as a front-line
health care provider in the field setting.
Ø Apply application of principles related to community, women,
health and development.
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Health and Development,
and Health Care System
Ø
Communication Skills
Ø
Community Health
Ø
Primary Health Care
and Gender Issues
Ø
Community Health
Management
Ø
Reproductive Health
Ø
Management and Leadership
Ø
Maternal and Child
Health (MCH) Services
Ø
Infectious Diseases
Ø
Environmental/Occupation
Health
Ø
Community Participation
and Its Importance for Health Care
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Field-based training
Qualified and experienced faculty
and staff of the department will conduct the course. The basic learning strategy of the course is
Learning by Doing, with participatory
approach. The class room sessions, group work and panel discussions will be
complemented with relevant field based exposure and project development for
experiential learning.
The whole course has been divided into eleven modules of
two to five day duration. Each new day
will begin with a review of the previous day’s work by one or two participants.
Each module or a set of module will be followed by a panel discussion,
to provide an opportunity to the participants to further clarify any of the
concepts or contents with the help of faculty and staff panelists.
Different teaching material and handouts will be provided during the
course for ready reference and preparation of assignments. At the beginning of the course, a pre-test
will be conducted for all participants to find out areas needing further strengthening.
Similarly a post-test at the end will help in knowing improvement in
the learning achieved during the course.
Duration
of the Course
The course will be of six weeks duration and will be conducted in year 2000/2001.
For more information about individual course contact:
Ms. Nadira
Ashraf
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