Public Health Systems - Challenges and Opportunities: The Case of Nepal

This course has been accredited by tropEd Network for Higher Education Institutions in International Health.

Content:

• An overview of the Public Health delivery system in Nepal
• Comparison of health care systems in different resource settings
• Health related challenges from supply side and demand side
• Public health interventions to address health problems
• Socio-cultural determinants of health care seeking behaviour in Nepal

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the module, the participants will be able to:

• describe the health care delivery system in Nepal,
• identify major sources of health-related information,
• explain major health problems including challenges and opportunities to address these problems,
• identify socio-cultural aspects of care seeking, service delivery and health behaviors,
• identify innovations and initiatives to address health problems both from supply side and demand side,
• compare problems and challenges of health care systems in developed and developing countries, and
• assess and discuss possible health system solutions in a resource-constrained system.

Registration:

If you would like to participate, please register here.

Cancellation policy: For cancellations made before the registration deadline, a non-refundable fee of 100 EUR will be charged. For cancellations made after the registration deadline until the course start, a non-refundable fee of 300 EUR will be charged. In case of no-shows or cancellations from the start of the course, the full course fee will be charged.

Course Coordinators in Nepal:

Sudarshan Paudel - Patan Academy of Health Sciences (Nepal)
Prof. Madhusudan Subedi - Patan Academy of Health Sciences (Nepal)
Dr. Deepak Paudel - Save the Children (Nepal)

All correspondence (inquiries, organisation and registration) via the Teaching & Training Unit in Munich, ttu@lrz.uni-muenchen.de