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Time Table
Combined 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Semester
Time Table
Combined 4rth, 5th and 6th Semester
Assignment on Hospital Administration for DL Students
Q.No1: Define a hospital. Discuss in detail the problems associated with the Nursing Services in a typical public sector Pakistani hospital.
Q.No.2: What do you mean by professionalization of medical services. Discuss in detail.
Q.No.3: Maintenance of hospitals have become a nuisance. Elaborate why and put forth some remedies to address this problem.
Q.No.4: Discuss the importance of collective bargaining in the health sector.
Q.No.5: Discuss how the process of routine transfers have disturbed the working of the Health Department.
Q.No.6: Discuss the negative role of politicians in hospital affairs and suggest some concrete steps to dilute their interference in hospital affairs.
Q.No.7: Discuss some types of judgmental errors, which a hospital M.S can make about his subordinates.
Q.No.8: Draw a management conflict grid and label it properly.
Q.No.9: Prepare a plan to reduce financial corruption in a tertiary hospital.
Q.No.10: Prepare an essential checklist which you as an M.S of a hospital would use during morning round of your hospital.
Assignment on Epidemiology for DL Students
Q.No1: Define Incidence and Prevalence. Discuss the relation between the two and their importance in evaluating various Public Health Programs.
Q.No2: What is screening. What are the important considerations when choosing a screening test for a public health problem.
Q.No3: What is Sullivan’s index. What does it show.
Q.no4: Write in detail about Human Development Index and how it is calculated. Put in the figures for Pakistan and calculate HDI for Pakistan
Q.No5: What is an observational cross sectional study. What epidemiological variables can be measured by such studies. Give some examples of such studies conducted in Pakistan.
Q.No6: List the differences between Case Control and Cohort studies in detail.
Q.No7: Systematically elaborate step by step how would you conduct an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak.
Q.No8: Write down the formulas for calculating the following vital statistics
a) Infant Mortality Rate
b) Maternal Mortality Rate
c) Attributable Risk Percentage
d) Odds Ratio
e) Relative Risk
Q.No9: Define Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care. Discuss the importance of Primordial Prevention.
Q.No10: Design a survey form to be used in the catchment area of your BHU, suppose if a Malaria outbreak occurs in that area.
Assignment on Health Education and Promotion
Q.No1: Discuss the components of Health Education in detail.
Q.No2: What is meant by Advocacy. What is the difference between Advocacy and IEC
Q.No3: Discuss the PRECEDE Framework of Health Education
Q.No4: What is meant by Health Promotion. What difficulties are traditionally entailed in Health promotion activities, in the developing countries
Q.No5: Discuss the FRESH Framework of School Health Education
Q.No6: Discuss in detail how would you conduct a Focus Group Discussion related to Women Health in a rural area.
Q.No7: How can the Quality of Health be associated with the Health Education
Q.No8: Discuss the types of Beliefs which people have about Health. Give some examples
which you are familiar with
Q.No9: What are the factors which describe community behaviors related to health.
Q.No10: Why Health Education and Promotion activities been successful in Pakistan. Give some recommendations to make such activities more successful in future.
Assignment on Primary Health Care
Q.No1: what are the Human resources problem in management of Primary Health Care in NWFP. Discuss with examples.
Q.No2: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of selective Primary Health Care. Has this
or can this be implemented in Pakistan with good results. Yes or No. Illustrate your answer with examples.
Q.No3: it is a common perception that quality of PHC services in Pakistan are sub standard.
Recommend in detail, some measures to bring in quality to the services offered under the umbrella of PHC.
Q.No4: Discuss the pros and cons of community involvement in PHC decision making in a place like NWFP.
How can you overcome such difficulties associated with involvement of community at grass root decision making in PHC.
Q.No5: Drugs have been the cornerstone in quality assessment of PHC by the community.
Discuss the basics of drug management at the level of a Basic Health Unit.
Q.No6: Discuss how can Public Private Partnerships improve outcomes in PHC. What should be the framework of such partnerships.
Qno7: Discuss the eight classical components of Primary Health Care. What are the extended elements of PHC for the new millennium.
Q.No8: Discuss in detail, the salient features of causes of failure of Primary Health Care in Pakistan.
Q.No9: What is the structure of Primary Health Care in Pakistan at the District Level.
Assignment on Public Health Policy
Q.No1: How do we carry out stakeholder analysis in Policy Analysis.
Q.No2: What is the Pakistan Gateway Health Policy Paper. Discuss the history of the Pakistan Public Health Policy Forum.
Q.No3: What is incrementalist model of Policy Making. Discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of this model with some examples you are familiar with.
Q.No4: Discuss the main setbacks with Health Policy Planning in Pakistan.
Q.No5: Give some recommendations to improve Health Policy Making in Pakistan.
Q.No6: What is the role of think tanks in Policy Making. How to do you think that Health think Tanks like Kaiser Foundation shape the American Health Policy.
Q.No7: Discuss how power is exercised in various forms to shape public policies and give some examples from field of Health Policy
Q.No8: Discuss the Hall Model and Kingdon Models of Policy Agenda setting and illustrate how they explain that certain health issues appear on Policy Agenda while others dont
IMPORTANT NOTE to DL STUDENTS: The last date for submission of Assignments has been extended upto 12th of July 2010 which is FINAL and failing to submit Assignments by this final date will DISQUALIFY the defaulters from Exam.
Time Table
Combined 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Semester
| | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| Subject | Hospital Administration | Health Education and Promotion | Epidemiology |
| Teacher | Dr Nayyar Raza | Dr Munnaza Saleem | Dr Nayyar Raza |
| Class timings | 3.30 – 5.30 PM | 3.30 – 5.30 PM | 3.30 – 5.30 PM |
Combined 4rth, 5th and 6th Semester
| | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| Subject | Maternal and Child health care | Health Policy | Primary Health Care |
| Teacher | Dr Jamil Ahmad | Dr Nayyar Raza | Dr Munnaza Saleem |
| Class timings | 3.30 – 5.30 PM | 3.30 – 5.30 PM | 3.30 – 5.30 PM |
Assignment on Hospital Administration for DL Students
Q.No1: Define a hospital. Discuss in detail the problems associated with the Nursing Services in a typical public sector Pakistani hospital.
Q.No.2: What do you mean by professionalization of medical services. Discuss in detail.
Q.No.3: Maintenance of hospitals have become a nuisance. Elaborate why and put forth some remedies to address this problem.
Q.No.4: Discuss the importance of collective bargaining in the health sector.
Q.No.5: Discuss how the process of routine transfers have disturbed the working of the Health Department.
Q.No.6: Discuss the negative role of politicians in hospital affairs and suggest some concrete steps to dilute their interference in hospital affairs.
Q.No.7: Discuss some types of judgmental errors, which a hospital M.S can make about his subordinates.
Q.No.8: Draw a management conflict grid and label it properly.
Q.No.9: Prepare a plan to reduce financial corruption in a tertiary hospital.
Q.No.10: Prepare an essential checklist which you as an M.S of a hospital would use during morning round of your hospital.
Assignment on Epidemiology for DL Students
Q.No1: Define Incidence and Prevalence. Discuss the relation between the two and their importance in evaluating various Public Health Programs.
Q.No2: What is screening. What are the important considerations when choosing a screening test for a public health problem.
Q.No3: What is Sullivan’s index. What does it show.
Q.no4: Write in detail about Human Development Index and how it is calculated. Put in the figures for Pakistan and calculate HDI for Pakistan
Q.No5: What is an observational cross sectional study. What epidemiological variables can be measured by such studies. Give some examples of such studies conducted in Pakistan.
Q.No6: List the differences between Case Control and Cohort studies in detail.
Q.No7: Systematically elaborate step by step how would you conduct an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak.
Q.No8: Write down the formulas for calculating the following vital statistics
a) Infant Mortality Rate
b) Maternal Mortality Rate
c) Attributable Risk Percentage
d) Odds Ratio
e) Relative Risk
Q.No9: Define Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care. Discuss the importance of Primordial Prevention.
Q.No10: Design a survey form to be used in the catchment area of your BHU, suppose if a Malaria outbreak occurs in that area.
Assignment on Health Education and Promotion
Q.No1: Discuss the components of Health Education in detail.
Q.No2: What is meant by Advocacy. What is the difference between Advocacy and IEC
Q.No3: Discuss the PRECEDE Framework of Health Education
Q.No4: What is meant by Health Promotion. What difficulties are traditionally entailed in Health promotion activities, in the developing countries
Q.No5: Discuss the FRESH Framework of School Health Education
Q.No6: Discuss in detail how would you conduct a Focus Group Discussion related to Women Health in a rural area.
Q.No7: How can the Quality of Health be associated with the Health Education
Q.No8: Discuss the types of Beliefs which people have about Health. Give some examples
which you are familiar with
Q.No9: What are the factors which describe community behaviors related to health.
Q.No10: Why Health Education and Promotion activities been successful in Pakistan. Give some recommendations to make such activities more successful in future.
Assignment on Primary Health Care
Q.No1: what are the Human resources problem in management of Primary Health Care in NWFP. Discuss with examples.
Q.No2: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of selective Primary Health Care. Has this
or can this be implemented in Pakistan with good results. Yes or No. Illustrate your answer with examples.
Q.No3: it is a common perception that quality of PHC services in Pakistan are sub standard.
Recommend in detail, some measures to bring in quality to the services offered under the umbrella of PHC.
Q.No4: Discuss the pros and cons of community involvement in PHC decision making in a place like NWFP.
How can you overcome such difficulties associated with involvement of community at grass root decision making in PHC.
Q.No5: Drugs have been the cornerstone in quality assessment of PHC by the community.
Discuss the basics of drug management at the level of a Basic Health Unit.
Q.No6: Discuss how can Public Private Partnerships improve outcomes in PHC. What should be the framework of such partnerships.
Qno7: Discuss the eight classical components of Primary Health Care. What are the extended elements of PHC for the new millennium.
Q.No8: Discuss in detail, the salient features of causes of failure of Primary Health Care in Pakistan.
Q.No9: What is the structure of Primary Health Care in Pakistan at the District Level.
Assignment on Public Health Policy
Q.No1: How do we carry out stakeholder analysis in Policy Analysis.
Q.No2: What is the Pakistan Gateway Health Policy Paper. Discuss the history of the Pakistan Public Health Policy Forum.
Q.No3: What is incrementalist model of Policy Making. Discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of this model with some examples you are familiar with.
Q.No4: Discuss the main setbacks with Health Policy Planning in Pakistan.
Q.No5: Give some recommendations to improve Health Policy Making in Pakistan.
Q.No6: What is the role of think tanks in Policy Making. How to do you think that Health think Tanks like Kaiser Foundation shape the American Health Policy.
Q.No7: Discuss how power is exercised in various forms to shape public policies and give some examples from field of Health Policy
Q.No8: Discuss the Hall Model and Kingdon Models of Policy Agenda setting and illustrate how they explain that certain health issues appear on Policy Agenda while others dont
IMPORTANT NOTE to DL STUDENTS: The last date for submission of Assignments has been extended upto 12th of July 2010 which is FINAL and failing to submit Assignments by this final date will DISQUALIFY the defaulters from Exam.
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