TY - GEN AU - Pan American Health Organization AB -
Course purpose
This "Self-learning Virtual course on Gender and health: awareness, analysis, and action" seeks to provide participants with the knowledge and basic skills for gender mainstreaming in health. The course outlines how gender operates as a determinant of health and guides participants through the basic steps of applying gender-sensitive planning to their work, as well as introducing some basic techniques on integrating a gender perspective in public health practice.
General objectives
Methodology
This is an online course available on the Moodle e-learning platform run by the PAHO/WHO’s Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH).
It is a self-learning course which participants can take autonomously at their own pace.
The course includes:
Duration and workload
This is a self-learning course with an estimated total duration of 6 hours. Participants can work at their own pace.
Evaluation
At the end of each module, participants must respond to a series of review questions to be able to progress to the next module.
Once all three modules and their respective review quizzes have been completed, the Final Exam covering all course materials can be taken. Participants must answer 70% of the questions correctly to pass this Final Exam.
Certificates
Participants who pass the Final Exam and complete the VCPH Quality Survey can download the certificate of completion issued by the Pan American Health Organization.
Course purpose
This "Self-learning Virtual course on Gender and health: awareness, analysis, and action" seeks to provide participants with the knowledge and basic skills for gender mainstreaming in health. The course outlines how gender operates as a determinant of health and guides participants through the basic steps of applying gender-sensitive planning to their work, as well as introducing some basic techniques on integrating a gender perspective in public health practice.
General objectives
Methodology
This is an online course available on the Moodle e-learning platform run by the PAHO/WHO’s Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH).
It is a self-learning course which participants can take autonomously at their own pace.
The course includes:
Duration and workload
This is a self-learning course with an estimated total duration of 6 hours. Participants can work at their own pace.
Evaluation
At the end of each module, participants must respond to a series of review questions to be able to progress to the next module.
Once all three modules and their respective review quizzes have been completed, the Final Exam covering all course materials can be taken. Participants must answer 70% of the questions correctly to pass this Final Exam.
Certificates
Participants who pass the Final Exam and complete the VCPH Quality Survey can download the certificate of completion issued by the Pan American Health Organization.