Course Description
Assesses the socio-determinants, mechanisms, and systems that promote and maintain the health, safety, and well-being of women, newborns, and children in communities around the world. Aims to critically evaluate various global strategies and interventions designed to improve child survival and the safe motherhood initiative in the context of sustainable development goals.
Athena Title
Global Maternal Child Health
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in GLOB 7400E
Prerequisite
GLOB 7100 or GLOB 7100E or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Define the key concepts, terms, and indicators used in assessing global reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health interventions. 2. Analyze the unique barriers to health care for women and children with focus on low- and middle-income countries and specific strategies and policies to address them. 3. Evaluate demographic systems and practices in low- to middle-income countries that result in poor data on maternal and child health. 4. Analyze strategies and effects of various global efforts to improve maternal and child health, including child survival programs, the safe motherhood initiative, the millennium development goals, and the current initiatives in the sustainable development goals. 5. Characterize the role of nutrition in maternal and child health, with an emphasis on the control and prevention of under nutrition, child growth stunting, and micronutrient deficiencies. 6. Compare the health systems in low-income settings to U.S. health system, with a specific focus on service delivery, access to care, and health care workforce for improvements in maternal and child health. 7. Apply cultural, political, and economic theories to understand various policies, approaches, and strategies for improving maternal and child health. 8. Apply a human rights and social justice approach to maternal and child health.
Topical Outline
--History of Global Maternal and Child Health --Levels and Causes of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Mortality and Morbidity --Global Burden of Disease for Maternal Health --Global Burden of Disease for Child Health --Health System Impacts on Maternal and Child Health --Child Immunization as a Best-Buy for Global Health --Innovations to Expand Access and Improve Quality of Health Services --Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health