Adolescent Health: Taking Evidence to Implementation

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  • Location: Online
  • Time: 3 hours per week
  • Duration: 10 weeks
  • Application Deadline: View course provider schedule

About the course

The Adolescent Health Implementation (AHI) short course aims to train research and implementation staff in southern Africa's government departments, non-governmental organizations, and research institutions. It also aims to promote the understanding of implementation science and its values and build the capacity to implement proven interventions more effectively. Note: The AHI short course replaces the previous Adolescent and Youth Health Policy (AYHP) short course.

Course Content

Each week of the course, participants must complete assigned pre-readings and watch three pre-recorded presentations of approximately 20 minutes each before the live weekly discussion sessions.

  • Health situation of young people in South Africa
  • Frameworks for responding to the needs of the adolescents
  • HIV, STIs and TB
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Comprehensive sexual education (policy and implementation)
  • Scaling up youth health services
  • Introduction to Implementation Science: Fundamentals to Implementation Science
  • Implementation science intervention planning
  • Implementation science in adolescent health care
  • Improving implementation of evidence-based interventions in the field: The Wits/UCT/UNC D43- examples from the field.
  • Implementation science impact evaluation and frameworks
  • Community engagement
  • Schools as centres for adolescent health promotion
  • Adolescents as young parents
  • Support systems for young families
  • ART, weight gain and treatment adherence
  • Nutrition, lifestyle and physical activity
  • Integrating adolescent healthcare services
  • Mental health issues affecting adolescents: Gaps and support services
  • Substance use in adolescence
  • Gender-based violence among adolescents

Registration

Entry requirements: Post-matriculation qualification. Relevant post-matriculation qualification in the field of Public Health. E.g. BCurNursing, BSc Social Science, MBCHB, Public Health.

For more information or to register email adol.shortcourse@hiv-research.org.za

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Adolescent Health: Taking Evidence to Implementation

 

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Price: R6,500.00

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