John Hopkins University - Assessing Health Program Delivery
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Assessing Health Program Delivery at Coursera Overview
Duration | 18 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course |
Credential | Certificate |
Assessing Health Program Delivery at Coursera Highlights
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- Approx. 18 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Assessing Health Program Delivery at Coursera Course details
- This course provides in-depth knowledge about implementation strength, quality of care, and service utilization, which are essential components of health program delivery. This course is primarily aimed at implementers, managers, funders, and evaluators of health programs in low- and middle-income settings (LMISs) targeting women and children, and undergraduate and graduate students in health-related fields.
- Those who complete this course successfully will be able to:
- 1. Explain why assessing health program delivery is an essential part of any large-scale program evaluation in LMISs.
- 2. Design an assessment of delivery for a health program in a LMIS, including proposed documentation of the program, indicators, measurement methods and tools, relevant contextual factors, and a plan for data analysis.
- 3. Interpret assessment results in the context of a large-scale effectiveness evaluation, and explain how they can be used to improve program policies and implementation.
- 4. Describe the RADAR tools for assessing implementation strength and the quality of care, and access guidelines for the use of the tools.
- The development of this course was supported by a grant from Government Affairs Canada (GAC) for the Real Accountability, Data Analysis for Results (RADAR) project.
Assessing Health Program Delivery at Coursera Curriculum
Getting started in the course
1.1.1 Welcome
1.1.2 An introduction to effectiveness evaluations of large-scale programs for women and children in low- and middle-income settings
1.2.1 Introduction to the in-depth case studies
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Required 1: Course Objectives and Syllabus
Required 2: RADAR Project
Required 3: Biographies
Required 4: Glossary
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Module 1 Quiz
Deciding WHAT to assess
2.1.1. Welcome to Module 2
2.2.1 The history and evolution of assessments of program implementation strength
2.2.2 Implementation strength indicators
2.2.3 Application to running case studies
2.3.1 A brief history of quality of care assessments
2.3.2 Guest speaker by Moise Muzigaba on Overview of The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
2.3.3 Quality of care indicators
2.3.4 Application to running case studies
2.4.1 Program utilization
2.4.2 Indicators of program utilization
2.4.3 Application to running case studies or other case examples
2.5.1 Review of Module
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Module 2 Quiz
Data Sources and Data Collection Methods
3.1.1. Welcome to Module 3
3.2.1 Fundamentals of research design relevant to assessments of health program delivery - Part 1
3.2.2 Fundamentals of research design relevant to assessments of health program delivery - Part 2
3.3.1 Overview of data sources and methods
3.4.1 Data sources and collection methods for program implementation strength
3.4.2 Case study of a national implementation strength assessment of family planning and youth-friendly services in Malawi
3.5.1 Data sources and collection methods for assessing quality of care
3.5.2 Guest lecture by Alex Rowe on Assessing Health Worker Performance
3.5.3 Applications to in-depth case studies from Mali and Malawi
3.6.1 Data sources for service utilization
3.6.2 Case studies of utilization assessments
3.7.1 Summary of Module 3
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Module 3 Quiz
Context matters
4.1.1 Program documentation
4.1.2 What contextual factors may affect program delivery, and how can they be documented?
4.2.1 Application to in-depth case studies from Mali and Ethiopia
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Module 4 Quiz
Planning and implementing data collection, quality control, and data analysis
5.1.1 Welcome to Module 5
5.2.1 Developing an implementation plan for the assessment
5.3.1 Supervising data collection and ensuring data quality
5.4.1 Analyzing and interpreting results in the context of a large-scale effectiveness evaluation
5.4.2 Linking health program delivery results with coverage results – an introduction
5.5.1 Review of key concepts in Module 5
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Module 5 Quiz
Use it or lose it: Evaluations of program delivery as agents of change
6.1.1 Promoting the uptake and use of results
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Module 6 Quiz
Introducing the RADAR tools for evaluating health program delivery
7.1.1 Welcome to Module 7, and the history of the RADAR tools
7.2.1 Overview of IS & QoC RADAR assessment tools
7.3.1 Web video introducing RADAR website
7.4.1 Summary of Module 7
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Module 7 Quiz
Course summary
8.1.1 Course summary and avenues for further learning
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