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HPPM 648 ADVANCED HEALTH PLANNING

Credits: 
2

The course introduces students to the concepts of planning and the application of these concepts to the delivery of health care.  Emphasis is placed on practical decision making and health planning as a prelude to determining sources of data collection, analysing and interpreting data in assessing the health care needs of a community and in determining the alternative means of meeting those needs. These concepts would be discussed: systems analysis, health system, health needs assessment, forecasting, problem definition, goal setting, alternative interventions, cost-benefit analysis, plan / programme implementation and monitoring and evaluation.