Course Description and Prerequisites:
This course provides students with an overview of the health, social, economic and environmental issues currently affecting women of reproductive age, infants and children. This addresses major issues in child and adolescent health in the Indonesia and the LDC, including interactions among children, their families, and the social environment. The course explains demographics, health status, health care access & use, and outstanding issues of different life stages. It also introduces research issues in maternal and child health. The course emphasizes on planning, performing, and evaluating health policy and program.
Expected Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, each student should possess the following areas of subject mastery:
- Student should be able to on address main five main issues on MCH: a) foundations of MCH, b) nutrition and health maintenance, c) health of school children and children with special needs, d) behavioral issues, and e) international child health, especially in the LDCs.
- Able to describe normal patterns of development and identify the medical, environmental, behavioral and psychological influences on the health of women, infants and children.
- Able to detail demographics, health status, health access and use, and outstanding issues of each life stages.
- Able to describe the major health problems associated with pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and the child-bearing years, including those of children with special health care needs.
- Able to perform thorough assessment on health problems and needs and utilize it for program development.
- Understand the process of program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Understand the process of advocacy and policy development in Maternal and Child Health.