Overview
Quality Improvements in Maternal and Newborn Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is designed for aspiring professionals working or interested in a range of environments that deliver MNH health care ,with a focus on operating in today’s world of economic challenges whilst continually striving to enhance the quality of these services.
Students at Quality Improvements in Maternal and Newborn Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will:
- Learn about the importance of improving the quality of MNH care and services.
- Explore how to assess quality from the perspective of a health system, a health care worker, and a recipient of care.
- Reflect critically on their own area of practice and role in quality improvement, and appreciate how research and audit differ and how they are related.
Programme Structure
Courses include:- Quality in maternal and newborn health care services.
- Overview of MNH quality of care methods and approaches.
- Multi-dimensional aspects of quality.
- How to assess quality of MNH care.
- Audit and feedback: Maternal deaths review (including verbal autopsy), perinatal deaths review.
- Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) and its links to MNH quality of care improvement.
- How to plan and implement quality of care interventions.
- Indicators for monitoring and evaluating progress in quality of care.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 14 days
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Public Health Medicine Nursing View 86 other Short Courses in Medicine in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Anyone who works in the fields of international child health with a quality improvement capacity would find this course useful, especially doctors, nurses, midwives, community health practitioners and public health researchers.
- Students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all learning components, or a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of at least 88 for the Internet-based Test (iBT), with minimum scores of 21 for Listening and Writing, 22 for Reading and 23 for Speaking. Tests should be within their validity period of 2 years.
Tuition Fee
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International
1225 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1225 GBP for the full programme during 14 days. -
National
1225 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1225 GBP for the full programme during 14 days.
Living costs for Liverpool
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