Training
activities
National Institute of Public Health provides long
and short term training courses as below:
A. Long term:
2 batches of Master Degree Course on Public Health
were completed and conducted in French language, NIOPH is planning to
organize the bachelor course on Public Health in the near future in
line with that we are in the process of preparing the curriculum.
B. Short term:
1. Health management
The National Institute of Public Health (NIOPH) in close collaboration
with JICA organization as well as under the technical and financial
supports from the JICA since 2003 has provided the short training
course on health management for senior health managers at central,
provincial and district levels nationwide.
The purpose of the training course is to provide a
basic knowledge on health management in scientific way to health
managers at different level in order to help them to understand and
know how to develop the strategic planning such as vision, mission and
goals for their own setting through the analysis of strength, weakness,
opportunity and threat of their own institutions, to understand the
concept for problem solving, strategic management in community and
hospitals, to strengthen the capacity for situation analysis in
community in order to get new approaches for problem solving, to know
the methods of quality control and applied the methods for improving the
quality of their own setting, and to improve their own health
leadership.
The workshops/training courses that had been organized
by NIOPH are:
- Four TOT workshops were organized at
National Institute of Public Health for senior health managers at
central and provincial levels nationwide with the total number of
97 participants (19 females)
- Three training courses on health
management for senior health managers at central and provincial
levels were organized at National Institute of Public Health for
senior health managers nationwide with the total number of 92
participants (12 females)
- Three training courses on health
management for senior health managers at district level were
organized as follow:
- At NIOPH with 33 participants (4
females);
- At Champassack province( the southern part) with 29 participants (5 females)
- At Luangprabang province(the Northern part) with 27 participants (2 females)
- At Xienkhouang province(for eight northern provinces) with 37 participants (4
females)
2. Health Research Methodology Training
Training on health research methodology is one of the NIOPH’s activities in order to contribute to
build the research capacity of health staffs nationwide as well as to
promote the conduction of health research in the country. Therefore,
during the implementation of the each five year national health
research master plan of NIOPH, the number of health care providers
nationwide who had been trained on health
research methodology is as follow:
- 156 health care providers for the first
five year national health research master plan (1992-1996) under
the support of IDRC-CANADA and WHO
- 193 health care providers for the second
five year national health research master plan (1997-2001)
under the support of IDRC-CANADA and WHO
Beside that the NIOPH has contributed to lecture on
health research methodology to medical students at Faculty of Medical
Sciences,
National
University
of
Laos
since 1997
Since 2001, the NIOPH in collaboration with the Calorinska Institute for the implementation of the
National Drug Policy (NDP) has periodically organized training workshop
on health research methodology for health staffs who assigned to
participate for conducting health research projects supported by Calorinska Institute.
3. Lesson on health research methodology that deliver
for both medical students (at Faculty of Medical Sciences) and health
staffs (training course at NIOPH, MOH) are:
1. Introduction on
health research
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8. Determination
of hypothesis
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2. Problem
identification
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9. Research
methodology: variables, study design
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3. Analysis
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10. Method of data
collection
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4. Statement of
problem
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11. Sampling
method
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5. Literature
review
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12. Plan for data
collection
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6. References
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13. Plan for
analyzing
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7. Determination
of objectives
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14. Ethical
consideration
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15. Proposal
development
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4. Cooperation in postgraduate training within &
between countries
Establishing Asian link network between National
Institute of Public Health (NIOPH) Ministry of Health of Lao PDR),
Hanoi School of Public Health, Ministry of Health of Vietnam, Université Libre of Bruxelles and Tropical Medicine Institute of Liverpool UK on Health System Research
curriculum development for Laos-Vietnam under the support of EU
On the 4th October to 25th November 2005 the intensive
course on Health System Research was held at the Hanoi School of Public
Health, Vietnam in which the NIOPH’s lecturers had jointly
lectured with other lecturers from Vietnam and Bruxelles on some subjects for the course. The subjects had been delivered are as
below:
- Epidemiology by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Somthana Douangmala
- Model for preparation analysis by Dr. Sengchanh Kounnavong
- Using qualitative method for health
system research by Dr. Sengchanh Kounnavong
- Quality control for health services by
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kongsap Akkhavong
- Health education and health system
research by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Somboun Phomtavong
- Health system research and information
system by Prof. Dr. Boungnong BOUPHA
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