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What courses do you offer and what topics do they cover?

There are four types of courses: The Health Systems Flagship Core Course (or, “Core Course”), The Health Systems Flagship Technical/Deep Dive Courses (also known as “Deep Dive Courses”, The Health Systems Flagship Self-Paced courses (also referred to as “Self-Paced Courses”), we also have experimented with Webinars - these often feature professional development content from other Health, Nutrition and Population - World Bank Colleagues or by external partners.

The Health Systems Flagship Core Course helps participants better understand the complexity behind policy making and challenges of implementation in order to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The Flagship Course presents a foundation for conceptualizing a systems-based approach to health to identify the necessary policy levers for achieving desired health system objectives. Rather than offering a prescriptive predetermined list of interventions, the course presents options to policy makers, enables them to consider the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, helps them define their challenges, and provides them with information that enables them to come to their own decisions.   

Technical/deep dive courses focus on primary care, non-communicable diseases prevention and management, resource management, health financing, provider payment, etc. 

There are 13 Self-Paced courses that are offered on the World Bank's Open Learning Campus (OLC) website:  

See: Health Systems Self-Paced E-Learning Modules

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