Examples in community health are stressed. Completion of all homework assignments and exams, daily attendance, and active participation in class discussions. To increase health professionals' ability to analyze problems and make decisions based on application of epidemiologic concepts and methods in a variety of settings. Completion of written exercises and exams, daily attendance, and active participation in class discussions. To enable students who have little or no formal training in economics to use the basic principles and concepts of economic analysis in applications in health services.
Analytic tools introduced include cost-effectiveness analysis.
Completion of written assignments and exams, daily attendance, and active participation in class discussions. In 1999, the workshops were devoted to popular education theory and practice, meeting management, responding to resistance, group process and verbal communication skills. Assignments include the design and evaluation of presentations made by students between each workshop using the theory and principles of popular education and other skills learned to date. Each student needs to make advance arrangements so that they will be able to make the presentations with their intended participants. Planning and evaluations forms are provided at each seminar.