Course Title: An Approach to Strengthening Health Systems Course Date: 14-18 August 2017
Course Location: Singapore
Registration Link: http://www.unioncourses.org/an-approach-to-strengthening-health-systems-14
Registration deadline: 9 August 2017

An Approach to Strengthening Health Systems will teach participants how to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the health systems and how to establish optimum controls while laying down the system.

Benefits of Training

Provide benefits at the national and provincial level health programme administration and delivery Increase the competence of the participants to improve, modify and re-engineer systems

Strengthen and modify systems with greater involvement and participation of concerned shareholders Improve their ability to bring in the desired changes in their respective programmes

Ensure effective implementation of the newly strengthened health systems Understand the importance of documentation, certifications and knowledge management

Programme Content

Day 1
Welcome and introduction to An Approach to Strengthening Health Systems
Understanding stakeholders needs and delivering performance on key elements of health systems
Linking health systems with policy, practices and research
Understanding the systems framework

Day 2
Key elements of a system and using the flow charting for defining the same
Defining process and output indicators
Overcoming constraints and bottlenecks

Day 3
Calculating the process cycle time
Identifying data collection points, checkpoints and controls
Making improvements vs. re-engineering

Day 4
Implementation challenges
Importance and role of leadership and governance
Understanding the concept of accountability
Managing external influences and bottlenecks

Day 5
Importance of capacity building
Importance of discipline
Documentation, certifications and knowledge management
Action planning
Closing