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Certificate in Health Economics and Health Financing
$300.00- Discuss principles of economics that are applicable in health system financing
- Describe factors and their functions in healthcare market including cost and effectiveness of healthcare
- Demonstrate different components of healthcare services, schemes and industries attached to it
- Discuss the components of health financing, strengths and weaknesses of a country’s structure and functioning of health financing
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Certificate in Introduction to Public Health Practice
$300.00- Define health and its determinants in the context of public health
- Describe the mission, core functions of public health and the public health system and the strategies and approaches of public health practice
- Discuss the tools that used to measure population health
- Discuss the components of the public health infrastructure, the role of law and ethics, and the legal system that must be in place in order to achieve public health goals
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Certificate in Maternal Child Health
$300.00- Describe the historical background and contemporary trends of maternal and child health.
- Understand the basic terms and definitions of indicators.
- Identify common causes of mortality and morbidity among women and children and discus maternal and child health issues and interventions
- Illustrate the MCH status and intervention efforts of Government of Zambia
- Identify low-cost, effective community-based approaches to intervention of MCH issues.
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Certificate in Population and Family Health
$300.00- Describe population and family health issues in focus on social problems.
- Enumerate the demographic cycle and theoretical models of population
- Assessment of family and enlist family risk.
- Describe interventions based on the family assessment in relation to health issues
- Explain the family structure, family function and the family process of family health, demonstrate the current issues to overpopulation in relation to the health issue
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Certificate in Principles and Applied Epidemiology
$300.00- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of definitions in Epidemiology, Various epidemiological measures and Principles of epidemiology for scientific and ethical discussion of health related events and problems.
- Apply principles of causation to make causal inference from epidemiologic studies. Recognizing the relative strengths and limitations and estimation of disease occurrence rates or death
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of epidemiological study designs in public health, their uses, and drawing appropriate inferences from such epidemiological data
- Critically evaluate the public health screening programs
- Understand the key sources of data like epidemiologic investigations, studies, and surveillance.
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Certificate in Public Health Management
$300.00- Discuss managerial processes such as management cycle, resources, planning, implementation, evaluation, health systems, product and services.
- Explain planning cycle, its importance to sustain the systems
- Discuss the rational and process involved in strategic plan frame work, group dynamics and leadership is management tools in health system
- Discuss social marketing as a contemporary issue in Promoting health technology.
- Describe an apply human resources management in workplace environment.
- Explain the purpose of policy mechanism of its process and advocacy in public health.
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Certificate in Public Health Nutrition
$300.00- Understand the principles and concepts of Public health nutrition.
- Learn nutritional epidemiology and its applications in research and development.
- Critically analyse global food security issues and its implications on nutrition and health.
- Develop insights on international, national and local public health nutrition programmes to address malnutrition-under nutrition and over nutrition.
- Appraise the different e-tools to improve population nutrition.
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Certificate in Public Health Policy
$300.00- Analyse the main components and challenges in organisation, financing, and delivery of health care and public health services
- Evaluate public health policies and programs that promote health and health equity
- Develop a capacity to apply conceptual framework to understand policy processes in health care
- Discuss the roles of supply and demand in policy making in health care sector
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Certificate in Research Methodology
$300.00- Describe the scientific method as it is applied to research in public health practice.
- Identification of the research problem and defining objectives of the study. Describe the relevance of the problem chosen for research, through good literature review.
- Identify an appropriate study design and apply it to produce valid results.
- Describe effectively and interpret the present results to fellow scientists and investigators, policy-makers and administrators, and the public.
- Demonstrate the proposal writing to funding agencies for grant of funds. Be responsive to ethical issues and safeguard the interest of all stakeholders.
