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Course Information

Contact Information

Course on hold John B. Mason, PhD
masonj@tulane.edu
(504) 988-3987
Tidewater, Rm. 2200-21
   
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2008 Tentative Course Outline

Day 1-- Sunday, 8 June 2008

Arrival Kingston, Jamaica

            Arrival at Preston Hall, University of the West Indies

Remainder of the day is at leisure

                

Day 2-- Monday, 9 June 2008
            Orientation/Introduction @ CFNI
            Welcome Reception

   
Day 3-- Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Tropical Medicine Research Unit

Day 4-- Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Start Research Projects

Visit to/Lecture on Specific Programs

Day 5-- Thursday, 12 June 2008

Continued

Day 6-- Friday, 13 June 2008

Field Visit to Mandeville/Southern Region Health System

Day 7 & 8-- Saturday 14  & Sunday 15 June 2008

Free Day in Negril or Elsewhere

Day 9-- Monday, 16 June 2008

Visit Community Health Aides (CHA)

Day 10-- Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Seminar with Southern Region Health Staff

Day 11-- Wednesday, 18 June 2008
            Visit with Community Health Aides (CHA)

Return to Kingston

Day 12-- Thursday, 19 June 2008

At CFNI

             Lectures/Visits on Local Programs
             Complete Research
Day 13-- Friday,  19 June 2008

Present Research Results and Wrap Up

Jamaica Night 

Day 14-- Saturday, 20 June 2008

Departure

* Note: This course schedule might be revised slightly

Reading List 

 Available on-line:
1. Nutrition Challenges in the Caribbean,  F Henry, CFNI:
2. Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions, 2001 (Overview)
3. How Nutrition Improves (chapters 1 &2 only)  
4. Jamaica Social Safety Net Reform-World Bank  ( Selected sections)
5. Improving Child Nutrition in Asia (Chapters 1&2)
6. Prevention of Iron Deficiency  Viteri.  IOM.  1998
7. WHO Manual on Treatment of Severe Malnutrition
8. Baby Friendly Hospitals 
9. Epidemiological Fact Sheet HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Jamaica 
10. Health basics: growth monitoring
11.  Jamaica: Nutrition Country Profile (hard copy can be consulted)
 12. Assessing, Analyzing and Monitoring Nutrition Situations  (pages 25-28 only)
13. Health in the Americas (Vol II, 1998): Jamaica  PAHO
14. School feeding programs: Improving effectiveness and increasing the benefit to education (skim)
Available in print:
15. ‘Nutrition for Developing Countries’( Second Edition-1993) Felicity Savage King and Ann Burgess.  Chs 14-15,  18. (a few copies can be borrowed and shared-available in rm 2221) 
16. CD -- TIH Assessment screens: review CD (can be borrowed-available in rm 2221)
17. WFP/UNESCO/WHO: School Feeding Handbook. JM has hard copy, can be consulted .