Planning, monitoring and evaluating health policies and programmes

Duration

20h Th, 15h AUTR

Number of credits

Lecturer

Elisabeth Paul, Denis Porignon

Coordinator

Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

• Introduction to health planning cycle
• Specificities of public health evaluation
• Minimal major indicators for evaluating health systems
• Concepts of programme evaluation
• Data types, sources and collection
• Evaluation methods used for programme evaluation
• Impact evaluation
• New challenges of evaluation
• Theory-based evaluation approaches
• Case studies on global health programme evaluations

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The objective of the course is to:

- Present an overview of the main aproaches and methods used to evaluate public health programmes
- Propose a comprehensive conceptual, theoretical and methodological framework enabling students to:

• Understand the principles and basic elements favouring quality evaluations; and
• Use such evaluations to improve the critical analysis of interventions in which they are involved

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students must be able to apply the knowledge acquired in courses on quantitative, qualitative and economic methods and in the organisation of healthcare systems.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The courses will be based on theoretical presentations, encouraging everyone to participate, on reading and case studies

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Blended learning

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Platform(s) used for course materials:
- MyULiège


Further information:

Course notes and support documents will be made available to students via MyULiege before the course. Additional reading may be recommended.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )


Further information:

Closed written exam

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Elisabeth Paul - E.Paul@uliege.be 

Dr Denis Porignon - porignond@who.int

Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux - nantoine@uliege.be 

Association of one or more MOOCs

Items online