Public Health and Personal Fitness
Module 3
Strengthening Healthcare
10 Courses
Understanding and Strengthening Health Systems Platform: Coursera Institution: John Hopkins University Started: 11/03/2019 Finished: 11/04/2019 Future-proofing the Health Workforce Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Griffith University Started: 09/06/2020 Finished: 25/07/2020 How Computers Work: Demystifying Computation Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Raspberry Pi Foundation Started: 28/04/2023 Finished: 30/04/2023 Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Tapei Medical University Started: 05/06/2020 Finished: 05/06/2020 eHealth: Combining Psychology, Technology and Health Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Twente Started: 26/10/2017 Finished: 30/04/2023 Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Cape Town Started: 28/08/2017 Finished: 08/09/2017 Healthy Futures: How Can We Create the Most Effective Healthcare System? Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Murdoch University Started: 01/06/2018 Finished: 08/06/2018 A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice Platform: Coursera Institution: Imperial College London Started: 03/06/2020 Finished: 03/06/2020 Healthcare Entrepreneurship: Taking Ideas to Market Platform: Coursera Institution: Imperial College London Started: 06/06/2020 Finished: 07/06/2020 Healthcare Innovation: What Does Success Look Like and How to Achieve It? Platform: Coursera Institution: Imperial College London Started: 07/06/2020 Finished: 08/06/2020
“Pressure on hospitals will only be relieved if they are working as part of well-functioning local systems of care. Silos must be broken down, and health and social care joined up around the populations served. This means integrating care to enable patients to be admitted to hospital quickly and discharged appropriately. It also means investing in prevention to tackle people’s needs before they become crises.“
Haroon Siddique, How to save the NHS: experts offer their big ideas, theguardian.com
COVID-19 illustrates why it is so vitally important to have strong and durable healthcare systems, but, even without a pandemic, access to safe and effective healthcare is a basic human right that absolutely needs to be honoured on a global scale.
Most of the contents of this module were originally contained with the previous module, Global Health and Systems Thinking, but after COVID-19 came along and I came back to my public health studies, I realised that strengthening healthcare systems was a separate and very prevalent focus.
I created this module, and added a few additional courses, as a means of understanding why healthcare systems around the world (and especially in the UK where I was located) were struggling to deal with COVID-19 pandemic and what was required to future-proof them.