Imperial College London
Health Systems Development: A Focus on Health Service Delivery and Human Resources for Health
Imperial College London

Health Systems Development: A Focus on Health Service Delivery and Human Resources for Health

Dr Sondus Hassounah

Instructor: Dr Sondus Hassounah

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.7

(57 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
Approx. 20 hours
Learn at your own pace
Prepare for a degree

What you'll learn

  • Apply a root cause analysis approach in order to diagnose service delivery specific bottlenecks.

  • Critique strategies to mitigate global human-resources-for-health challenges to support evidence informed decision making for health system reform.

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Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

This week you will learn about health service delivery, explore how to deconstruct the relationships between health service delivery and other aspects of the health system, as well as distinguish between strengths and limitations for different approaches used to transform health services

What's included

5 videos7 readings2 assignments3 discussion prompts1 plugin

This week you will learn about various approaches used globally to transform health service delivery to respond to population need as well as how to use root cause analysis techniques to identify and diagnose health service delivery bottlenecks and analyse country experiences in transforming health services delivery.

What's included

4 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

This week you will learn about human-resources-for-health and familiarise yourselves with concepts such as supply, demand and need in the context of health workforce. You will also get a chance to explore the opportunities and challenges global human-resources-for-health face globally in the era of Sustainable Development Goals.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts

This week you will explore various frameworks, tools and approaches to address human-resources-for-health challenges globally, and you will have the opportunity to critique strategies to mitigate global human-resources-for-health challenges in order to support evidence informed decision making for health system reform.

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5 videos3 readings1 peer review

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4.6 (18 ratings)
Dr Sondus Hassounah
Imperial College London
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