Health Services Organisation and Management course for district health managers Fees: US$960 Course Dates: |
Objectives of the course
By the end of the course, participants would have:
- Gained concise understanding of the principles and main functions of management as applied in the health sector
- Acquired appropriate knowledge and skills in:
- Organising, planning and managing health services at district (county) level
- Organisational assessment
- Proposal writing and resource mobilisation
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Resource management at district level (county)
- Financial management
- Designing and conducting health systems research
Course outline
The following topics will be covered:
- Health sector management and health economics
- Results Based Management (RBM) of health services
- Applying RBM in planning district health services
- Composition and roles of District Health Management Teams
- Organising district health services; Role of hospitals and clinics in health care systems
- Health Sector Reform issues and challenges
- Internal and external organisational assessment
- Health Management Information System (HMIS)
- Proposal writing
- Resource mobilisation and fundraising
- Monitoring and Evaluating health care services
- Supervision in health services
- Participation in health care services
- Resource management at district health level
- Partnerships and networking in health care service delivery
- Audits, protocols and standards in health care service management
- Financial management
- Management of time, space and paperwork
- Health systems research
- Introduction to data processing using SPSS
- Formulation of data collection tools
- Field data collection practical
- Data analysis, report writing and presentation