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Health Systems Strengthening
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Overview

Duration

8 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

Health Systems Strengthening
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Highlights

  • Duration 8 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Health Systems Strengthening
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Course details

More about this course
  • In this course, you'll explore the complexity of health systems and apply systems thinking to health systems strengthening (HSS).
  • You'll critique major health system frameworks, analyze health system inequities, and interrogate the evidence for HSS approaches.
  • You'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to develop HSS interventions across areas such as health policy, health financing, human resources, supply chain management, quality of care and private sector engagement.
  • This course was developed by the Nossal Institute and UNICEF to equip UNICEF staff to work in HSS; now it's open to you.

Health Systems Strengthening
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Curriculum

Introduction to Health Systems Strengthening

Course introduction

The history of Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)

Current frameworks for health systems strengthening

Players and power in health systems

Putting it all together - week 1 summary

Equity in health system strengthening

Defining equity

Addressing inequities in health systems

Tools to guide an equity focused approach

Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Actions at Different Levels of the Health System

National health systems and health system planning

District health systems

Community health systems

Intervening across the system

Health Financing

Principles of health financing and the Universal Health Coverage agenda

Funding health care: where does the money come from?

Follow the money: undertaking a fiscal space analysis

Human resources for health

The health workforce: who are they and where are they?

The health workforce: roles, motivations and incentives.

The health workforce: management and regulation

Supply chain management

The role of supply chain management in health systems strengthening

Strengthening health systems to strengthen supply chains

Resilience in health systems

Quality of care

Quality of care: definitions and frameworks

The link between quality of care and health systems strengthening

How do we measure the quality of care?

System strategies for improving quality of care

Managing a mixed health system

Examining mixed health systems

The private sector: characteristics and roles

Getting the public-private mix right

Bringing it all together

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