282 - Introduction of Health Services Course ( Elements from LSHTM Health Service Masters of Public Health ), 2019
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Introduction of Health Services Course (Elements from LSHTM Health Service Masters of Public Health Module)Dr. Esther Kwong
31 July, 1,2,5,6 August 2019 |
Course Description
Kyoto University School of Public Health (KUSPH) invites you
to the special short course on
“Introduction of Health Services Course (Elements
from LSHTM Health Service Masters of Public Health
Module)” by Dr. Esther Kwong, Honorary Clinical Assistant
Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Course aims and learning outcomes:
Public health is as much concerned with the provision and performance of health services
as it is with the activities to promote health and prevent disease. This course is for all who are
interested in a systematic way to understand Health Services. It is indeed relevant for all who
participate in health services activities from public health preventions through to tertiary care, all
those who work in it and thus contribute to its delivery, or those who study it in research, as well as
policy makers who want to improve it. This course aims to help us appreciate why several
perspectives are required to understand health services. You will learn important concepts to gain
a good understanding of health services, delivered through a combination of perspectives and
systematic approaches. It provides an initial look into the complexities of health services and helps
you understand the structure, activities and quality of health services. This complex perspective is
fundamental to undertaking approaches to improve services either as a clinician, researcher,
manager, planner, commissioner or policy-maker.
About Dr. Esther Kwong:
Dr. Esther Kwong is a medical doctor specialising in Public Health Medicine in the UK, she
currently practices in London in government departments and health-care organisations. She has
previously worked in NHS hospitals, Department of Health, NHS England, with roles in both local
and national government. She has an academic and research interest in improving the quality of
healthcare and the effectiveness of delivering health services. Her doctorate at the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) was in the use of Patient Reported Outcomes
(PROMs) to evaluate the quality of emergency hospital care. Esther is currently an Honorary
Clinical Assistant Professor at LSHTM and is involved in teaching on the MSc Public Health
programme; she is also on the board of assessors sand examiners for LSHTM MSc Public Health
Distance Learning MSc programme with the University of London.
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/kwong.esther
