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    WELCOME TO COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS (4 CREDITS)

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    • Welcome message and modules aim in brief

    Dear Student,

    Welcome to this MPH course “Community Based Health interventions”.

    The course aim is to provide students enrolled in the MPH program with a theoretically informed practical overview of community work, methods for developing and facilitating solutions to public health problems, including concepts of advocacy and policy formation, presentation skills and development of community health interventions.

    You are expected to participate to the entire course, including in the scheduled group or individual course assignments and discussions. If necessary, contact the course instructor for further information!

    We look forward to seeing you at the course start!

    • Facilitators contacts

    Instructor: Prof. NYIRAZINYOYE Laetitia

    Email: lnyirazi@nursph.org

    Tel: +250788683209

    Co-Instructor: Dr. MUSABYIMANA Angèle

    Email: amusabyimana@nursph.org

    Tel: +250788666609

    Contact hours at instructors’ office: Wednesday & Thursday from 4:00 to 5:00 pm

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    SESSION 1: DEFINITIONS OF CONCEPTS

    Introduction

    For community-based health interventions, there are many concepts that are considered and applied while designing and implementing such interventions. This session covers important concepts and their respective definitions.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE SESSION

    By the end of this session, you should be able to:

    1. Distinguish different concepts used for community-based health intervention.
    2. Apply each concept correctly


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    Session 2

    Introduction

    For community-based health interventions, there many designs and theories to be considered. The first part of this session covers the community-based health intervention rationale, designs and theories. The second part is about case study research designs that can be used to document how community-based health interventions work.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE SESSION

    By the end of this session, you should be able to:

    • Apply a number of models of working with communities to their own situation
    • Conduct a case study to evaluate a community-based intervention
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    Session 3

    Introduction

    This session is an assignment complementing session 2 part 1. Based on given readings, in three groups, you have to work respectively on community mobilization, community engagement and social marketing.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE SESSION

    By the end of this session, you should be able to:

    • Describe the guiding principles of community engagement/mobilization and social marketing
    • Identify advantages and disadvantages of each of the above concepts
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    SESSION 4

    Introduction

    This session is an application of session 2 part 2. You will practice what you have learned in this mentioned session. This assignment will be performed in groups. The number of each group members is to be determined by instructors and students consensus.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE SESSION

    By the end of this session, you should be able to:

    • Define  case
    • Set case study objectives
    • Describe a specific case study methodology
    • Group assignment: Case study protocol development: Case definition; Case study objectives; Methodology (methods, data collection tools, participants recruitment)
    • Submission of draft of case study protocols (comprising the above parts)
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    SESSION 5

    N.B: This will be a mandatory in class session depending on the availability of the guest speaker.

     (This session will be updated according to the availability of contacted guest speaker).

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    SESSION 6

    SESSION 6

    Introduction

    This session will be held on the field as a fieldwork. You will visit a specific community benefiting from a community-based health intervention as well as the intervention implementers. You will collect data regarding the intervention according to the case study methodology developed during this course activity. Data will be analyzed and a report will be submitted and presented. Transport means to the field will be arranged by the school.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE SESSION

    By the end of this session, you should be able to:

    • Collect case study data
    • Perform case study data analysis
    • Write a case study report
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    SESSION 7 IN-CLASS PRESENTATION OF CASE STUDIES FINDINGS and COURSE WRAP-UP

    Introduction

    During this session that will be in class, all groups will present their case study findings. At the end of all presentations, instructors will give comments aiming at improving oral presentation of students. They will also wrap up the course and a face-to-face questions-responses session will be held.

    LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE SESSION

    By the end of this session, you should be able to:

    1. Present appropriately case study findings to stakeholders

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