Bias

HEALTH POLICY & PLANNING

DB 2: What are some of the techniques or processes that can be employed to evaluate health policy as opposed to evaluating a specific health intervention? Due date 26th Sep, 2010. (350-400 words)

Group Presentation: Week 11.

Main Essay: Develop and submit situational analysis of ‘MANUKA HEALTH REGION’. Due Date: 22nd Oct, 2010. (5 pm)

HEALTH RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Proposal: Week 7

Research Report

Group Presentation

Written Exam

STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING IN HEALTH

DB3: Describe methods you have used to influence the decision making process. What worked wekk? What didn't work as well as you had anticipated? Due 26th Sep, 2010. (350-400 words)

DB4: From your understanding/readinig/experience, public health management is heavily influenced by political/reactice decision making rather than by a more strategic approach to decision making. Argue. Due: 31st Oct, 2010. (350-400 words).

Major Assignmnt: Choose a management problem which you are familiar and briefly describe it, using appendices if necessary. Analyse the situation using four different frames of reference:

Structural

Human Resource

Political

Cultural

Your assignment needs to conclude with a possible solution to the problem drawn from the analysis from the four frames of reference. Due: 25th Oct, 2010. 5pm (2500-3000 words).

HEALTH LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

Assessment 1: Online Exam on 22nd Sep, 2010.

Assessment 2 (Essay): Design an innovation/initiative in healthcare that can be a patient/staff safety project, a new management initiative, or an institutional change management strategy. Due 12th Nov, 2010. (3000 words)