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Field Methods for Health & Nutrition Programs in Poor Communities in Jamaica (INHL 650) |
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| Course Information |
Contact Information |
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| Summer 2008 | John B. Mason, PhD | ||
| June 8-21 | masonj@tulane.edu | ||
| Jamaica | (504) 988-3987 | ||
| Tidewater, Rm. 2200-21 | |||
| Jamaica field course general information sheet | |||
| Map of Jamaica | |||
| Lonely Planet information on Jamaica | |||
| Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute | |||
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2008 Tentative Course Outline |
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| Day 1-- Sunday, 8 June 2008 | |||
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Arrival Kingston, Jamaica |
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| Arrival at Preston Hall, University of the West Indies | |||
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Remainder of the day is at leisure |
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| Day 2-- Monday, 9 June 2008 | |||
| Orientation/Introduction @ CFNI | |||
| Welcome Reception | |||
| Day 3-- Tuesday, 10 June 2008 | |||
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Tropical Medicine Research Unit |
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| Day 4-- Wednesday, 11 June 2008 | |||
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Start Research Projects |
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Visit to/Lecture on Specific Programs |
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| Day 5-- Thursday, 12 June 2008 | |||
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Continued |
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| Day 6-- Friday, 13 June 2008 | |||
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Field Visit to Mandeville/Southern Region Health System |
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| Day 7 & 8-- Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June 2008 | |||
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Free Day in Negril or Elsewhere |
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| Day 9-- Monday, 16 June 2008 | |||
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Visit Community Health Aides (CHA) |
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| Day 10-- Tuesday, 17 June 2008 | |||
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Seminar with Southern Region Health Staff |
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| Day 11-- Wednesday, 18 June 2008 | |||
| Visit with Community Health Aides (CHA) | |||
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Return to Kingston |
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| Day 12-- Thursday, 19 June 2008 | |||
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At CFNI |
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| Lectures/Visits on Local Programs | |||
| Complete Research | |||
| Day 13-- Friday, 19 June 2008 | |||
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Present Research Results and Wrap Up |
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Jamaica Night |
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| Day 14-- Saturday, 20 June 2008 | |||
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Departure |
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| * Note: This course schedule might be revised slightly | |||
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Reading List |
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| 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) | |||
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| 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 . | |||
