Program Design & Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening
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Program Design & Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening
This course is part of Evaluating Large-Scale Health Programs Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course
This course provides an introduction to designing and evaluating to strengthen the health system. After successful completion of all learning activities, course participants will be able to:
1. Define health systems strengthening 2. Describe health systems frameworks and how to incorporate them into evaluation planning 3. Describe how to design and prioritize implementation of health systems programs 4. Detail approaches to evaluate health systems programs, including data sources and study design 5. Introduce tools to assist with evaluation planning and simple models to assess health system intervention impact 6. Describe how to interpret health system evaluation findings and sustainability and scalability implications The development of this course was supported by a grant from Government Affairs Canada (GAC) for the Real Accountability, Data Analysis for Results (RADAR) project.
This module will introduce health systems strengthening, systems thinking, health systems frameworks and logic models, and the evaluation planning tool.
What's included
11 videos3 readings1 assignment
11 videos•Total 64 minutes
- Welcome to the course•2 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Introduction to health systems strengthening•5 minutes
- Systems thinking•6 minutes
- Program design and evaluation from a health systems strengthening perspective•10 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Health systems frameworks•4 minutes
- Applying a health systems lens to evaluation models (Part 1)•9 minutes
- Applying a health systems lens to evaluation models (Part 2)•8 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Introduction to the evaluation planning tool (EPT)•18 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals•10 minutes
- The application of systems thinking in health: why use systems thinking?•10 minutes
- Visualizing the drivers of an effective health workforce: a detailed, interactive logic model•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 1 Summative Exam•30 minutes
This module will cover types of health systems strengthening programs and approaches to design health systems strengthening programs.
What's included
10 videos1 assignment
10 videos•Total 52 minutes
- Welcome to Module 2•2 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•0 minutes
- Workforce interventions•6 minutes
- Supply chain interventions•5 minutes
- Information systems interventions•8 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Guiding principles for designing health systems strengthening programs•6 minutes
- Identifying and prioritizing opportunities: Part I•10 minutes
- Identifying and prioritizing opportunities: Part II•10 minutes
- Selecting health systems strengthening program•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 2 Summative Exam•30 minutes
This module will cover study designs, data sources, and methods to evaluate health systems strengthening programs. Finally, this module will conclude with implications of health system evaluation findings
What's included
10 videos2 assignments
10 videos•Total 51 minutes
- Welcome to Module 3•1 minute
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Study designs to evaluate health systems programs•11 minutes
- Challenges in health system program evaluation•7 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Overview of data sources for health systems strengthening evaluation•9 minutes
- Modeling to evaluate health systems program impact•14 minutes
- Learning objectives and outline•1 minute
- Implications of health system evaluation findings•6 minutes
- Course wrap-up•1 minute
2 assignments•Total 210 minutes
- Module 3 Summative Exam•30 minutes
- Final Exam•180 minutes
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Reviewed on Dec 23, 2023
The course is very exciting. It really provided me with certain details that I have always overlooked in my practice. Am happy to have taken it.
Reviewed on Apr 5, 2023
It really was enriching for my knowledge of evaluations and systems strengthening. Thank you Coursera
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2023
I found it to be very important in identifying problems and improving health care delivery .
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