Subject Description
This subject will provide a clinical placement for students to experience rural health practice looking at limitations and opportunities for improving maternal and newborn health. Students will stay in the rural health centres and sub health centres for a period of eight (8) weeks dividing their time equally between clinic tasks and community engagement. It aims to enable students to conduct community profile analyses, needs analysis, develop and modify priority of health promotion strategies aimed at reducing maternal and newborn mortality rate, and Public Health initiatives. And also to provide tools for students to utilise when working with rural staff in order to improve services through health worker education and joint clinic activities. They will use the Community Action Participation processes and work with key community groups and individuals to improve maternal and newborn health. The students will have to complete several assessment tasks including Cli
This subject will provide a clinical placement for students to experience rural health practice looking at limitations and opportunities for improving maternal and newborn health. Students will stay in the rural health centres and sub health centres for a period of eight (8) weeks dividing their time equally between clinic tasks and community engagement. It aims to enable students to conduct community profile analyses, needs analysis, develop and modify priority of health promotion strategies aimed at reducing maternal and newborn mortality rate, and Public Health initiatives. And also to provide tools for students to utilise when working with rural staff in order to improve services through health worker education and joint clinic activities. They will use the Community Action Participation processes and work with key community groups and individuals to improve maternal and newborn health. The students will have to complete several assessment tasks including Cli