This course supports primary health care personnel to maintain essential services, control the pandemic and keep the community’s trust in the health system while ensuring their own safety through effective infection prevention and control mechanisms.
Learning objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Maintain essential health services at primary health care level
- Prevent COVID-19 through supporting effective public health measures
- Diagnose COVID-19 cases and ensure adequate referral
- Manage mild and moderate COVID-19 cases
Audience
This course is suitable to primary care physicians and health managers at primary care, working in the public and private sectors in the MENA region. It is also open to anyone interested in learning about role of primary health care in the context of COVID-19.
Length
It should take you about 15 hours to complete this self-paced course.
Certificate
Trainees will receive certificates of completion from WHO and accredited for 15 hours under the category 1 credit system of the American Association of Continuing Medical Education.
Methodology
This course is composed of five modules, including various examples and activities.
Structure
This course is composed of five sections:
1. Continuity of Primary Health Care: Services Maintenance
and Coping with Stress
2. Continuity of Primary Health Care: Changing Practice and
Services in response to Pandemic
3. COVID-19 Prevention and Education
4. Safe clinical assessment for diagnosis and categorization
of suspected cases
5. Primary Health Care role in COVID-19 management
Contact details
For substantive questions: tkitamura@unicef.org