Community Health Management

Description:

Management is essential to any organization that wishes to be efficient and achieve its aims. Without someone in a position of authority (manager), there would be organizational anarchy, with no structure or very little, if any. Community Health Management is a must, to accomplish desired goals through group of actions. It is essential to convert the disorganized resources into a useful and effective enterprise. Thus, community health management is the function of getting things done through people in the community by channeling resources appropriately using major stake holders in the community from planning to implementation and evaluation.

Goal:

The course is designed to provide the students with fundamental knowledge of community health management.

Objectives:

By the end of the course, the students should be able to understand the:

1.0     Concept of Community Health Management

2.0     Principles and Functions of Community Health Management

3.0     Health Planning

4.0     Supervision in Primary Health Care (PHC)

5.0     Leadership in PHC

6.0     Motivation in PHC

7.0     Management by Objective (MBO)

8.0     Community Health Management Resources

9.0     Monitoring and Evaluation

10.0  Delegation of Authority