How to Deliver Primary HealthCare Using a People-Centered Approach

1 Credit.

Exposes students to the history of integrated people-centered health services, possible interventions to achieve integration, and considerations for planning at the sub-national level. Looks at how low and middle-income countries are undergoing epidemiologic, demographic, and economic transitions, at the same time as their health systems are facing an increase in the burden of disease, with the emerging prevalence of chronic conditions. Covers the COVID-19 pandemic which has exposed the weaknesses and fragmentation in primary healthcare systems across the world. Reimagines primary health care requiring a shift from fragmented health services toward people-centered integration. Answers the question: "How do we change health services to be more integrated?"