Learning Primary Health Care at Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project
An opportunity to study developing world health at a world-renowned centre in rural India and learn how communities can be empowered to change.
For the past eight years, the Nossal Institute, in collaboration with the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), has run two three-week courses per year on Primary Health Care at the Jamkhed Institute in Maharashtra State of India.
The training institute at Jamkhed has for many years been training health professionals in primary health care and rural development, based on their experience in rural Maharashtra for over 40 years. CRHP has been a recognised best practice model of implementing primary health care since the mid seventies. It is exciting to see what has been achieved in their working area. Empowerment of women, the potential for economic independence in a drought ridden area, the change in health indices of women and children, and the lack of stigma attached to leprosy and HIV are just a few of the remarkable achievements of CRHP’s community-based approach in Jamkhed.
The course is designed for medical, allied health, social work, nursing or development studies students and anyone who is keen to learn about health in resource poor settings. Topics covered include:
- Primary health care (PHC) – history of PHC, how it became popular and then waned; how CRHP have implemented PHC in their program; how PHC can be applied in other settings and populations.
- Village health workers – their selection, training and ongoing support.
- Community groups – the women’s groups and farmers’ groups are integral to the success of the Jamkhed program – how do we get communities involved and participating in programs.
- Gender issues – part of the success at Jamkhed has been in the way they have tackled gender inequity and worked to empower women.
- Broader development issues – water and sanitation, income generation, watershed development all have strong links to health and are part of the model at Jamkhed.
- Project cycle and project development – part of the course also looks at skills that are required for those working in international health including situation analysis/needs assessment, identification of goals, objectives, outputs and activities and how to do simple monitoring and evaluation.
The course can be taken as a short course or for academic credit with assessment through enrolment with the University of Melbourne.
For details see Information Pack
To apply, complete the Application Form and return to the Nossal Institute.
Dates for 2012- 2013 courses:
- 18 November – 8 December 2012
- 13 January – 2 February 2013
For more information, please contact:
Shyamali Larsen, International Health Education and Learning Unit
Tel: +613 8344 0914 Email: larsens@unimelb.edu.au