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Health Systems Policy Reform

Health economics play an important role in making health systems more effective, efficient, and equitable. This e-Learning course provides the foundations for participants to better understand health economics and its potential contribution to decision making in the health sector.
March 27, 2013 - April 30, 2013
What can the health sector do, to help reduce poverty? The course defines key health outcomes and how to measure them. It systematically explores the factors that influence health outcomes. The final part of the course considers health sector policies and actions that governments can adopt in order to improve health and reduce poverty.
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Over the last two decades, important changes have occurred in the policy and program environment for work on population and reproductive health. These changes embody renewed international commitments to human rights and gender equity as well as recognition of changing economic, demographic and epidemiological conditions in countries. The goal of the course is to equip participants with the specific knowledge and tools needed in their work on reproductive health in countries where health system strengthening (HSS), budget support for health programs and poverty-reduction strategies are being implemented.
April 17, 2013 - May 29, 2013

Organization and Delivery of Health Services

Poor health reduces income and productivity, and undermines efforts to reduce poverty. This E-Learning course develops competencies in the assessment and performance of the 11 ‘Essential Public Health Functions’, as defined by PAHO, CDC, and CLAISS, that capture the role of national health authorities in public health. The course is offered in three separate parts of which this is the first.
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Poor health reduces income and productivity, and undermines efforts to reduce poverty. This E-Learning course develops competencies in the assessment and performance of the 11 ‘Essential Public Health Functions’, as defined by PAHO, CDC, and CLAISS, that capture the role of national health authorities in public health. The course is offered in three separate parts of which this is the second.
Coming Soon.
Poor health reduces income and productivity, and undermines efforts to reduce poverty. This E-Learning course develops competencies in the assessment and performance of the 11 ‘Essential Public Health Functions’, as defined by PAHO, CDC, and CLAISS, that capture the role of national health authorities in public health. The course is offered in three separate parts of which this is the third.
Coming Soon.
How to manage a public organization and its staff? How to manage your financial resources? What should I do with my IT system? Health managers of subnational health sectors around the world are faced daily with these and other types of managerial questions. Come and discuss management applied to health care systems with experts.
February 06, 2013 - March 19, 2013