Course Outline - McMaster University

Session 8
Primary Health Care in Under-serviced Communities:
Theory on Practice
Objectives
1. To define community participation and determine its role in the development process.
2. To apply the principles of Primary Health Care to participatory development.
3. To understand the barriers of entering a new community.
4. To explore some of the political and budgetary restrictions during implementation of selected
interventions.
5. To describe the concept of “training of trainers” and discuss its role as a participatory
development strategy.
6. To discuss field experience related to past and present projects and lesson learned.
7. To understand the evaluation process of field activities related to PHC and lessons learned.
8. To understand the use of appropriate technology which are easily available and affordable by
the communities.
Key Concepts: authentic participation, paricipatory development, training of trainers, barriers,
evaluation, field experience, and lessons learned.
Required Reading
Seear, M. (2007). An Introduction to International Health. Part VI (p. 307-3446). Toronto:
Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc.
On-line lecture
“Primary Health Care in Underserviced Communities”
Speaker: Dr. Zari Gill“
References
Attridge, CJ & Preker, AS. (March 2005). Improving Access to Medicines in Developing
Countries, Application of New Institutional Economics to the Analysis of
Manufacturing and Distribution Issues. World Bank’s Human Development
Network. Available at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resource
s/281627-1095698140167/AttridgeImprovingAccessFinal.pdf
Birdsall, N, Rodrik, D, & Subramanian, A. (2005). How to Help Poor
Countries. Foreign Affairs. Available at:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050701faessay84410/nancy-birdsall-dani-rodrik-arvindsubramanian/how-to-help-poor-countries.html
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