
The course is intended to prepare public health students of the health sciences to organise health programs that meet specific and identified community needs. The course also highlights the critical issues and logical questions in health planning. The main functions of managements, the implementation function. The supports systems to implement health care programs. The evaluation processes, and the health information format. Skills include setting goals and objectives. Selecting strategies, assessing, and mobilising internal and external recourses linking implementing and evaluating results. Evaluation procedures such as engaging stake holders, assessing resources and developing evaluation question and how to evaluate health budget. Different types of evaluation, formative evaluation, process evaluation and summative evaluation. Different types of planning, Strategic and Operational planning.
- Teacher: Khadija Umar Muhammed