Maternal and Child Health.
Understand the complex biological, social, and systems-related determinants of key maternal and child health challenges, evaluate related research, and learn to assess and implement programs, policies, and advocacy strategies.
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What You Will Learn
Upon graduation, students will be able to:
- Apply a life course framework, combining knowledge of human development and the cumulative impact of social and biologic determinants of health.
- Illustrate how key international and/or national and community-level organizations and systems promote and impede women’s, reproductive, child, and adolescent health.
- Critically evaluate latest innovations created to meet MCH challenges of the 21st century in resource-rich and resource-poor countries and communities.
- Analyze MCH-related research and communicate key findings and their significance to public health practice in non-technical terms.
- Apply functional area competencies to a selected MCH population or health domain.
Sample Course Titles
- Women, Children and Adolescents: A Public Health Approach
- Global Reproductive and Perinatal Health
- The Health of Adolescents and Emerging Adults
- Preventing Mental Health Disorders among Women, Children, and Adolescents: A Life Course Perspective
- Social Justice and the Health of Populations: Racism and Other Systems of Oppression in America
Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network, Institute for Child Health Quality (NICHQ), Boston