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GSPH 308 Family Planning Methods and Practice

Description of various contraceptive methods, mechanisms of action, failure rates, safety issues and warnings, barriers to increased use, a management of unsafe abortion, emergency contraception, approaches to delivery conducting situational analysis, family...

GSPH 307 Public Health Nutrition

Various food groups, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, trace elements; specific micronutrient deficiencies, Vitamin A deficiency , iron deficiency and anemia, iodine deficiency disorder ; nutritional requirements of pregnant and lactating women,...

GSPH 306 Child Survival: Management of the Sick Child

Define IMCI, Improving case management skills of health-care staff, Improving overall health systems, Improving family and community health practices, algorithms for diagnosis and treatment of Acute respiratory Infections, Diarrhoea, malaria, ear infection,...

GSPH 305 Principles of Disease Control

Burden and trends of infectious diseases, Determinants of infectious disease, natural history of infectious disease, management and control strategies, problems and challenges, specific interventions for selected infectious diseases.

GSPH 304 Fundamentals of Public Health Surveillance

Historical development of surveillance; planning a surveillance system, sources of health related information, collecting surveillance data, analyzing and interpreting surveillance data, use of surveillance data for public health action. Evaluating public...

GSPH 303 Reproductive Health: Maternal Health Care

Maternal health care : antenatal care, labour and postnatal care; emergency obstetric care strategies, appropriate technologies for monitoring pregnancy and labour; Definitions of maternal death, identifying maternal deaths, facility based maternal deaths...

GSPH 302 Infant and Young Child Feeding

Nutritive needs of infants and young children, Breastfeeding and its challenges, Supplementary and complementary feeding, International code for breastfeeding,  feeding of the low-weight-birth infant, weaning practices, effects of early feeding on later...

GSPH 301 Child Survival Programme

Global and national immunization strategy; types of vaccines; vaccine management, maintenance of the cold chain system, organization of immunization sessions, improving access and coverage of immunization; community mobilization for vaccination programmes,...

GSPH 215 Basic Principles of Environmental Health

The course will include the following: 1. Definitions: Environment, health, environmental health, environmental health hazards. 2. Classification of the elements of the environment (physical, biological, chemical, radiological). 3. Sources of environmental...

GSPH 214 Writing for Public Health

Writing readable health messages, summarizing, important points, write lists, choosing a style that is easy to follow; using the active voice; defining difficult words by context clues.

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