Course Calendar for 1st and 2nd Semester 2007-08 Class

Abasyn Institute of Management Sciences,
Peshawar
Masters in Public Health


Subjects and Semesters


*First Semester

• Introduction to Organization in Health
  Care
  
• Health Care Planning and Policy
  
• Health Care Marketing and Health
  Economics
  
• Financial Management and Accounting
  

*Second Semester

• Hospital Administration
  
• Health Human Resources Management
  
• Epidemiology, Biostatistics and
  Research Methods
  
• Health Education and Promotion
  
• Public Health Nutrition
  

Third Semester

• Communicable and Non-Communicable
  Diseases
  
• Public Health Policy
  
• Maternal and Child Health
  
• Primary Health Care
  
• Environmental, Occupational and
  International Health
  

Fourth Semester

• Research Dissertation
  

* First and 2nd semesters are interchangeable.





Abasyn Institute of Management Sciences


Masters in Public Health and Hospital Administration.


Course Calendar, 1st Semester and 2nd Semester Combined



Date and Day

Subject and Topic


6.9.2007

Introduction to MPH….Course Overview, Objectives, Methodologies, Q & A

7.9.2007

Introduction to Organizational Management in Health- Contemporary Issues


8.9.2007

Introduction to Organizational Management in Health II- Historical Issues and Theories

13.9.2007

Motivation and Leadership skills for Health Managers

14.9.2007

Introduction to Health Care Planning- Situational Analysis

15.9.2007

Financial Management in Health Care: Systems in place and definitions

20.9.2007

Managerial Skills for Health Managers-I: Speaking and Presentation Skills

21.9.2007

Health Care Planning- Problems and Priority Settings

22.9.2007

Financial Accounting in Health: Basics of Accounting Procedures

27.9.2007

Costing of Health programs

28.9.2007

Managerial Skills for Health Managers-II: Writing Skills, Negotiating Skills


29.9.2007

Health Care Planning- Option Appraisal techniques


4.10.2007

Budgeting in Health Sector

5.10.2007

Conflict Handling skills for Health Managers

6.10.2007

Health Care Planning- Documentation and Implementation


18.6.2007

Monthly test + case Study

19.10.2007

Basics of Health Economics- Core Concepts and Definitions

20.10.2007

Health Care Planning- Monitoring and Evaluation-I

25.10.2007

LogFrame Matrix Tool for Monitoring

26.10.2007

Evaluation Methodologies and Designs-I

27.10.2007

Evaluation Methodologies and Designs-II

1.11.2007

Government Accounting Procedures and Audit Methodologies

2.11.2007

Theory X and Theory Y in Health and Hospital Administration


3.11.2007

PC-I Preparation (Part-I)

8.11.2007

Financial Control and internal systems

9.11.2007

Health Management Information Systems

10.11.2007

PC-I Preparation ( Part-II)

15.11.2007

G.F.R- Leave Rules, Penalties etc

17.11.2007

Monthly Test + Case Study

22.11.2007

Proposal writing for NGO’s

23.11.2007

Special Powers Ordinance 2000 (revised 2002)

24.11.2007

Staff induction and interviewing methodologies

29.11.2007

Health Care Marketing and Social Marketing

30.11.2007

Health Sector reforms

1.12.2007

Management by Objectives

6.12.2007

Quality concepts in Health Economics- The concept of QALY’s

7.12.2007

Communications in Health

8.12.2007

Quality Concepts in Health Economics-II, Concepts of DALY’s

13.12.2007

Change Management and Time Management

14.12.2007

Networked Organizations: How to do the same in Health

15.12.2007

Settings Meetings and Agendas…. How to be control

27.12.2007

National Program for Family Planning and PHC: Management Issues

28.12.2007

National TB Control Program: Management Issues

29.12.2007

National EPI Program: Management Issues

3.1.2008

Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health Economics

4.1.2008

Cost Benefit Analysis of Health Programs

5.1.2008

Cost Utility Analysis of Health Programs

10.1.2008

Financing of Health- Core Concepts

11.1.2008

Financing of Health-II ( Risk Pooling and Social Insurance)

12.1.2008

Presentations by Students-I

17.1.2008

Presentations by Students-II

18.1.2008

Presentations by Students-III

19.1.2008

Presentations by Students-IV

24.1.2008

Presentations by Students-V

25.1.2008

Presentations by Students-VI

26.1.2008

Presentations by Students-VII

31.1.2008

Course Conclusion





Exams To be held in February 2008


Recommended Books

• Introduction to Health Care organization by Lewis C. Chappel
  
• An introduction to Health Care Planning in Developing Countries by Andrews Green
  
• A Manual for Health Care Planning in Districts- Govt of Pakistan
  
• A Manual of Health Economics for Developing Countries by T. Winsor
  
• Health Economics in Development- Nutrition, Population Series by World Bank
  
• Financial Management in Health- A Manual for EDO’s. Govt. of Pakistan