Option course in community health policies and programmes [30.0]
Community health policies and programmes
By the end of the programme, students will be able to
1. make a community diagnosis, that is to say identify the priority medico-social problems of a community or a target group, as well as the health factors which influence them,
2. devise, plan, implement and assess community health programmes relevant to the problems selected, by enlisting community participation,
3. organize information and communicate it throughout with the different players (politicalauthorities, target group, general population, professionals, managers of community health and other institutions such as hospitals and schools),
4. take responsibility for coordinating health programmes within a structure or a region, manage the staff, technical and financial resources to ensure that they are long-lasting.
