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Welcome Welcome to Management of Health Systems in Developing Countries. This course is designed to give students practice in using techniques and approaches that are useful for improving how health organizations function, especially in developing countries. As an introductory course, it reviews the development, concepts, and terms of Scientific, Process, Behavioral, Strategic, and Quality approaches to management. Special emphasis is given to setting objectives, monitoring performance, budgeting, financial management, training, supervision, management of personnel and district hospitals, community participation, and decentralization. Students learn the use of selected, practical tools including Delphi and Nominal Group techniques for structuring group decision making, the PRECEDE model for planning and evaluating programs to change behavior that affects health, the District Team Problem Solving process for effectively decentralizing the reorganization of peripheral services to solve major health problems, the Max/Min method of inventory control to prevent stockouts and expirations, the Scale method for expanding successful community participation pilot projects to wider population coverage, and the Critical Path Method for planning activities ahead to assure the outcome and control the time of important projects. Students will learn management lessons drawn from several case studies including the unparalleled global smallpox eradication, the challenge of decentralized planning and management in Indonesia, the improvement in health services coverage in virtual Tenquacha Province, and the empowerment of communities at JAMKHED in India. We hope that you enjoy the course and will find it useful in your work! —William A. Reinke and Melvyn C. Thorne PLEASE NOTE: Management of Health Systems in Developing Countries is a multi-term course and you must enroll in both parts for a total of five credits. You cannot take only the 3rd term or 4th term segment by itself. |
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