scholarly journals THE EMPOWERMENT OF VILLAGE HEALTH FORUM (VHF) IN ALERTED VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Didik G. Suharto ◽  
Kristina Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Public Health Promotion ◽  
Operating Fund ◽  
Village Health

<p>The problem the partner (Village Health Forum/VHF) encountered in developing alerted village could be approached from managerial capacity aspect and from the aspect of technical understanding capacity of members’ health. Considering the activity of service conducted, it could be explained that the activity focused on improving the members’ capacity in managing the institutionalism of VHF (particularly activity management, infrastructure and operating fund); and how the basic health knowledge capacity of VHF members as initiator, facilitator, and motivator supported the public health promotion. The activity of service to public in partner institution included: need assessment, institution capacity development, partnership development, and monitoring and evaluation. The factors affecting the program’s smoothness and success were: the factor deriving from VHF administrator/cadre, VHF institution, village government, Health Office/Public Health Center, private sector/company, and society.</p><p>Keywords: empowerment; Village Health Forum, alerted village</p>

Capacity building in the public health field in the Tunisian medical faculties

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Coman ◽  
O Oltean ◽  
M Palianopoulou ◽  
D Plancikova ◽  
C Zedini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
National Level ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Local Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Training ◽  
Medical Faculties ◽  
Health Field

Abstract Over the past years, Tunisia has experienced important reforms in the field of public health. The Tunisian medical faculties (Universities of Sfax, Tunis el Manar, Sousse and Monastir) play a key role in this endeavor by training public health professionals who can contribute to the modernization of the health system. Funded by the EC through Erasmus+ programme, the CONFIDE project (coordinated by Babes-Bolyai University, having as EU partners the Universities of Southern Denmark and Trnava, and the above mentioned Tunisian universities) has established the Research into Policy training programme by strengthening their capacity to provide public health training. The Research into Policy training programme has been delivered by the Centres for Evidence into Health Policy (C4EHPs) established within the Tunisian partner universities for the needs of CONFIDE. The training programme was implemented in four steps: (1) train the trainer sessions - the European experts trained 18 Tunisian trainers; (2) shadowing sessions - the trainers participated in shadowing sessions in the European partner institutions; (3) training delivery - the CONFIDE trainers, assisted by the European experts, delivered the training to an interdisciplinary group of 25 students and professionals; (4) internships - the students participated in internships in local health institutions. Three modules have been built within the Research into Policy training programme: Public health research, Health promotion policies and Evidence based public health policy. They contributed to increasing the public health knowledge and skills of the professionals trained. The training programme was well received by the Tunisian universities and the material developed so far during the project was adapted to the Tunisian context in the third step of implementation. On the long term, the project is expected to have an impact at the national level and produce updates at curricula level in the Tunisian medical faculties. Key messages Research into Policy training programme developed by the EC partners and culturally adapted by the Tunisian partners to the Tunisian public health context. Research into Policy training is a well-received tool for the high quality learning process in the public health field in Tunisian medical faculties.

scholarly journals Formative dialogue research - an appropriate strategy in community public health projects?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
L H Ausland ◽  
I Stang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
County Council ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Public Health Workers

Abstract Background Lately, there has been a call for knowledge-based community public health strategies and for evaluating local public health interventions. In addition to contributing to the public health knowledge base, it is underlined that the evaluations should be formative for ongoing local processes. The community professionals often lack evaluation competency, and a university course (10 ECTS) about process- and self-evaluation has been developed and facilitated for local public health workers. Vestfold County Council and University of South-Eastern Norway have collaborated to develop the course. The course has a particular focus on Formative Dialogue Research (FDR). FDR strategies may emphasize both project impact and processes, and local competences. The FDR approaches also contributes to the public health knowledge base (Rønningen 2010). Objective To examine and discuss whether FDR in combinations with an evaluation course, may be an appropriate strategy to meet the new expectations for community public health evaluations. Results Preliminary results indicate that FDR in combination with a evaluation course, may be an appropriate and desirable approach in community public health projects. The local public health professionals welcome the course. The focus has until now been on the development of the course and the cooperation and dialogues between the university and the county. Questionnaire and interview data collected in September 2019 will exemplify and nuance these preliminary results. Conclusions So far, the developing process indicate that FDR in combination with a course in self- and process evaluation, support FDR as an appropriate evaluation approach in community public health projects and processes. Key messages The local public health workers often lack competences in project evaluation. FDR in combination with a comprehensive course in process and self-evaluation seem appropriate evaluation approaches in community public health projects.

scholarly journals Towards a Shariah Compliance Model for Healthcare Centres with reference to Spiritual Healers: Issues and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramizah Wan Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Healthcare Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Spiritual Healers

Generally, a good healthcare centre comprises of qualified manpower, right policies and right procedures in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care for the patients as well as in public health. Other than manpower, healthcare centres must also look at social, religious and cultural factors affecting the recipients of the healthcare services given by the healthcare centres. In this paper, the author will look at some pertinent issues such as the need to have spiritual healers in any healthcare centre to help the patients in dealing with fatal illness. The spiritual healer is to help the patient and give him motivation so that he could have a positive mind throughout his journey in battling with his illness. Sometimes we have patients who refused to listen to the doctor's advice. Thus, the role of the spiritual healer would be important in assisting the healthcare centres and its management to convince him. Another issue is the privacy, respect and trust between patients and doctors as well as with the management of the healthcare centres. One of the duties of the healthcare centres’ management and doctors is, to respect the patient's religion and his faith. These three issues are amongst the important issues which every healthcare centre must look upon. Definitely there are a lot of challenges in addressing the above mentioned issues such as the procedures, methods on how to execute these issues and most importantly the perception of the public. In Islam, health care is one of the five important elements in which the Prophet SAW has mentioned in one hadith to be taken care of. A study has shown that a nation-building efforts has no meaningwithout the best public health and healthcare delivery system to the people.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL AND PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1237-1240
Author(s):  
Iryna M. Khomenko ◽  
Oleksandra P. Ivakhno ◽  
Yaroslav V. Pershehuba ◽  
Ivan P. Kozyarin ◽  
Svitlana P. Koshova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Health Management ◽  
System Component ◽  
Preventive Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
System Establishment ◽  
Specialty Certification

The aim: Scientific justification of the public health management methods and instruments for improvement of its effectiveness. Materials and methods: The authors conducted a complex research of the public health of Ukraine personnel resources development during the system establishment and building. Conclusions: The paper justifies the competence-based model of a specialist (the postgraduate educational level) as well as the university educational standards of the first (bachelor) and second (master) levels of specialty 229 “Public health”, knowledge branch 22 “Healthcare”. The authors have established insufficient level of the youth motivation for obtaining the specialty certification and described disadvantages of both advocacy program within the public health system and its leadership within the preventive system component. The authors emphasize the necessity of an integrated preventive program maintaining and strengthening the population health, using the advocacy component and available information resources of the public health.

scholarly journals Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e0000112
Author(s):  
Gregg R. Murray ◽  
Joshua Rutland
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
At Home

COVID-19 has sickened and killed millions of people globally. Conventional non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly stay-at-home orders (SAHOs), though effective for limiting the spread of disease have significantly disrupted social and economic systems. The effects also have been dramatic in Africa, where many states are already vulnerable due to their developmental status. This study is designed to test hypotheses derived from the public health policymaking literature regarding the roles played by medical and political factors as well as social, economic, and external factors in African countries’ issuance of SAHOs in response to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using event history analysis, this study analyzed these five common factors related to public health policy to determine their impact on African states’ varying decisions regarding the issuance of SAHOs. The results of this analysis suggest that medical factors significantly influenced decisions as did factors external to the states, while the role of political factors was limited. Social and economic factors played no discernible role. Overall, this study suggests how African leaders prioritized competing factors in the early stages of a public health crisis.

Strategies and structures for public health interventions

2021 ◽  
pp. 659-684
Author(s):  
Sian Griffiths ◽  
Kevin A. Fenton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter describes strategies for public health intervention and structures that support them. It uses examples of strategies in different parts of the world and at different levels—global, national, local, and individual—to illustrate various strategic approaches. The key elements of strategy are those of vision, mission, values, aims, plans, and their implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The examples chosen provide descriptions of how these are articulated and also how interventions are made towards their achievement of better public health. The importance of the way health services are structured, the public health workforce, and underpinning research and use of evidence are emphasized.

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