Course: Preventing Child Mortality

General

Preventing Child Mortality

Welcome to the course on Preventing Child Mortality.

The course focuses on understanding the burden of childhood disease that results in morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. Children are an invaluable population resource and childhood mortality has great importance in terms of a nation’s development, prosperity and well-being. The course has a multi-disciplinary focus that will help students appreciate this complex concept, in terms of the burden it places on populations, the causes, and the major interventions to reduce the burden of disease.

Course Structures and Expectations:
The structure of the course is as follows. There are 5 Topics, each with a set of resources in the form of a pdf file and an issue arising from these resources for you to reflect on. The resources contain summaries and links to the resources themselves. You are invited to post your thoughts to the reflections forums, and once you do that, you will be enrolled in the forum with anyone else who wishes to post their reflections and can join a discussion if you wish.

You can through the course at your own pace.

You can earn a certificate of completion if you have accessed each of the resources files and gained a score in the Quiz which you will find a the end of the course.

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Introduction
Children are an invaluable population resource and childhood mortality has great importance in terms of a nation’s development, prosperity and well-being. This course has a multi-disciplinary focus that will help students appreciate this complex concept in terms of the burden it places on populations, the causes, and the major interventions needed to reduce the burden of disease.
The course is designed to help you:
Understanding the burden of childhood disease that results in morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population.

Appreciate the causes and major interventions to reduce the burden of disease.

This course is an Open Online Course (OOC) that has been adopted from Peoples-uni. It was further developed by NextGenU.org (NGU).
There are five (5) modules to complete, which include:

Module 1: Magnitude and Causes of Child Mortality
Module 2: Interventions and Policies to Reduce Child Mortality
Module 3: Diarrhoea and Pneumonia Among Children
Module 4: Financing and Sustainability
Module 5: Implementing an Intervention

Approximate time for completion of this course is 5 hours at an average reading rate of 144 words/minute.

Engaging with this course

To register for this course, complete the registration form. Begin the course with Module 1. For each lesson, read the description.

Each lesson comprises introductory remarks. You can click on the collections of resources in each module.

There is a forum on each module for reflection, and you will be able to add a new topic or respond to a previous one. You may want to share your learning from this and other readings, comment on the topics from your own experience, comment on others' posts, or provide feedback on how we can improve the content and/or presentation.

There is a final quiz to assess your understanding of some important concepts. Click on the hyperlinks to take you to these items in each topic.

Requirements to obtain the certificate

You may browse this course for free to learn for your personal enrichment. There are no requirements.

To obtain a certificate, a learner must successfully complete:

All reading requirements

All discussion forums

The final exam with a minimum of 70% and a maximum of 3 attempts and

The self and course evaluation forms

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Module 1: Magnitude and Causes of Child Mortality
Learning Outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of the magnitude and causes of child mortality locally and globally.

In this Module, we will explore:
- The causes of child mortality/morbidity amongst local populations
- The magnitude of child mortality using relevant indicators in different settings
- The challenges in data collection on child mortality
- Trends in child mortality over time
Before looking at the problems, let's not forget the good news about the improvements in child mortality over time:
1 File, 1 Forum
- Resources for Lesson 1: Introduction and Resources File
  Read through this pdf file for a general introduction to the issue and links to useful resources.
- Reflection Module 1: The Burden of Disease Forum
  
  Reflect on the best source in your setting to accurately estimate morbidity and mortality profiles in children, and how a knowledge of the patterns of morbidity and mortality might help in preventing childhood mortality?
Module 2: Interventions and Policies to Reduce Child Mortality
Learning Outcome: Understand how evidence-based policies and interventions can improve child health.

This Module will explore:
- Evidence-based policies and interventions that improve child health
- The quality of the evidence that supports policies and interventions
- Whether an intervention might be generalizable to your local setting
1 File, 1 Forum
- Resources for Lesson 1: Interventions and Policies to Reduce Child Mortality File
  Read this pdf file for information about Module 2 and links to other resources.
- Reflection Module 2: Interventions and Policies to Reduce Child Mortality Forum
  Reflect on one intervention that might be useful to reduce child mortality in your setting.
Module 3: Diarrhoea and Pneumonia Among Children
Learning Outcome: Understand the approaches to prevent and manage diarrhea and pneumonia among children.

In this Module, we will explore:
- Trends in child mortality related to pneumonia and diarrhea both locally and globally
- Challenges that hinder efforts to prevent and treat diarrhoea and pneumonia
- Approaches being used to prevent and treat pneumonia and diarrhea
- Ways to improve current efforts to counter pneumonia and diarrhea among under fives in local settings
1 File, 1 Forum
- Resources for Lesson 1: Approaches to Counter Diarrhoea and Pneumonia File
  Read this pdf file to explore some of the issues relating to these two major causes of childhood mortality.
- Reflection Module 3: Diarrhoea and Pneumonia Forum
  Reflect on the burden of diarrhoea and pneumonia in your setting, and state to what extent advocacy for the interventions mentioned in the resources above may lead to an improvement.
Module 4: Financing and More.
Learning Outcome: Understanding the financing and sustainability of child health interventions.

In this Module, we will explore:
- Various common health financing methods
- Sustainability of a child health intervention in your local setting
1 File, 1 Forum
- Resources for Lesson 1: Financing and Sustainability File
  Read this pdf file for some information about financing models for child health.
- Reflection Module 4: Finance and Sustainability Forum
  Reflect on whether there are financial strategies that could be introduced or have been recently introduced to improve the accessibility and outcomes of child health services in your setting.
Module 5: Implementing an Intervention
Learning Outcome: Understand the importance of evidence while designing interventions.

In this Module, we will explore:
- How health system constraints will impact on interventions to improve child health outcomes
- Potential challenges to specific child health interventions in their local setting
- Evidence-based interventions that aim to improve health
1 File, 1 Forum
- Resources for Lesson 1: Designing Child Health Interventions File
- Reflections Module 5: Designing an Intervention Forum
  How do you think your country could scale up interventions to prevent childhood mortality? How important in this, is addressing the issue of maintaining a well-trained health workforce in both rural and urban areas?
Final Exam

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- Final Exam Quiz
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  The activity Course Registration is marked complete
  The activity Pre-Test is marked complete
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  The activity Reflection Module 2: Interventions and Policies to Reduce Child Mortality is marked complete
  The activity Reflection Module 3: Diarrhoea and Pneumonia is marked complete
  The activity Reflection Module 4: Finance and Sustainability is marked complete
  The activity Reflections Module 5: Designing an Intervention is marked complete
Course and Self Evaluation & Certificate

In this section, you can provide feedback about this course to help us make NextGenU.org better. Once evaluations are completed, you will be able to download your Certificate of Completion.

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- Course Evaluations Questionnaire
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- Self Evaluation Questionnaire
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Quiz

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Welcome to the course on Preventing Child Mortality.