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  • Addressing Diarrhea Through Public Health Action: The Case of an Informal Settlement in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The case concerns an informal settlement with a high prevalence of diarrheal disease in sub-Saharan Africa, and the factors that feed into this situation. The learning aim is to apply a model for intervention – the Public Health Action Cycle, which is based on UNICEF’s Triple A Cycle for nutrition improvement. more

  • 2012 African Health OER Network Impact Study

    The current impact study follows on from two earlier evaluations of the project. A formative evaluation [1] of the Design Phase completed at the end of 2009 focused mainly on OER ‘take-up’ and production in the partner institutions (OER Africa 2009). This evaluation concluded that expectations and contractual targets had been met, or exceeded by an impressive margin, with project... more

  • Consortium for Health Policy & Systems Analysis in Africa

    All CHEPSAA’s African members have produced reports that provide an overview of the HPSR+A capacity needs and assets in their organizations and its wider context. They each include recommendations about how to develop capacity. The assessment reports are from Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria, and there are also comparative assessments with guidance on how to approach the... more

  • University of Ghana: Why OER? (2011)

    This short clip features interviews with lecturers and professors within the University of Ghana College of Health Sciences. In this clip, individuals discuss their motivations for using and creating Open Educational Resources (OER). University of Ghana initiated a health OER project in 2008. University of Ghana is a founding member of the African Health OER Network. To watch this video... more

  • KNUST: Creating an OER policy (2011)

    This video from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology (KNUST) features interviews with lecturers and support staff involved in Open Educational Resources (OER) activities at the university. This clip focuses on the OER policy, which was passed in August 2010. To watch this video click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZAJsHtl5I [1] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZAJsHtl5I more

  • Transforming Health Systems: Case studies of critical health system analyses to support reform

    Over the years, the Health Economics Unit [1] (University of Cape Town) and Centre for Health Policy [2] (University of the Witwatersrand) have developed a range of training materials to strengthen critical analysis skills that can support health system reform. One of the case studies considers how national health accounts data can contribute to critically assessing existing health systems... more

  • Time to move beyond a brainless physiology

    “Exercise is a complex behavior that is regulated by a complex system”. In this talk, Prof Noakes seeks to include the brain as a factor in exercise physiology. He starts with the classical teachings in exercise physiology and continues by looking at various models such as the A.V. Hill model and the peripheral model. According to Noakes, not enough people are looking at the bigger picture... more

  • Training Trainers for Health and Human Rights

    The aims of this manual are: * To provide those interested in doing human rights teaching with a framework for training of trainers in health and human rights * To provide resources which will be of use to the training of trainers and students * To support alumni of our Train-the-Trainer courses, who now number nearly 200 people * To share our eight years of experience in running... more

  • Health and Human Rights Pamphlets

    The Learning Network pamphlets have been developed using principles of popular education and are suited for use by academia and community organisations' with other members of civil society. A series of 7 pamphlets exploring different aspects of the Right to Health. These pamphlets are available in three languages: English, Xhosa and Afrikaans. more

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