Latest regional news
29/Sep/2010
From 13th to 17th September, in the premises of the National Nurses Association and the School of Nursing at the University of Panama, was held the face-week on the Virtual Course Management Palliative Care Program of Panama.
This course is an initiative of the Ministry of Health and Social Security Fund of Panama with the collaboration of the University of Panama, FUNDACANCER, ANCEC, the Palliative Pro-care Association HOSPES and the sponsorship of the Pan American Health Organization through...
21/Sep/2010
On September 15 was made available to users of the VCPH classroom the virtual course "Tobacco and Public Health: from theory to practice." This course is freely available and has been created both in Spanish and English.
The course consists of four modules: Introductory, Protection, Prevention and Cessation. The grouping is purely didactic, because most of the topics are related and complemented by the modules.
The general objectives of the course are:
Describe and analyze the problem of...
20/Sep/2010
Last August began the virtual course "Pharmaceutical Services Renewed based on PHC", with an enrollment of 43 participants.
The virtual course on pharmaceutical services based on PHC for planners, whose vision is to support the development of pharmaceutical services with social relevance, integrated health systems based on PHC, which meet the needs of the individual, family and community. The roles and functions of the Pharmaceutical Services must be well defined so as to promote healthy...
20/Sep/2010
In the early days of September was held in the classroom of the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH) a major upgrade in the service of Elluminate.
This new version has new features that will be very helpful for the development of the sessions, as well as for access and organization of the various rooms within the course
The possibilities offered by Elluminate now to prepare in advance and upload the entire session before the activities and learning resources to be used in online courses, we...
19/Sep/2010
The electronic version of manual: Biostatistics: Methods and Applications of UD Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaga, also includes videos, test questions and is now accessible from the Virtual Campus of Public Health..
The course aims to introduce students to the first steps of Biostatistics, in an intuitive and real, with videos, and content questions about:
-Previous concepts
-Descriptive measures
-Bidimensional variables
-Calculation of...
-Descriptive measures
-Bidimensional variables
-Calculation of...
10/Sep/2010
From August 25 to 27,were held in Mexico the First Regional Public Health Competency.
For more information about the event you can visit the following link:
First Regional Workshop on Public Health Competency
19/Aug/2010
No, it’s not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte - instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon.
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the World” Gates said at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA today. “It will be better than any single university,” he continued.
He believes that no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get...
17/Aug/2010
From August 7 is being developed in the classroom of Virtual Campus of Public Health (CVSP) the Seminar Update Vitual Health Human Resources.
The Inaugural Conference and the debate about Health Careers were made by Mr. Gregorio Montero, Deputy Minister of Civil Service. Dominican Republic, Dr. Carlos Rosales, Regional Human Resources Advisor. PAHO / WHO and Dr. Rodolfo Kaufmann, Program Coordinator of the Adolescent Health and the Project Consultant EFPH (Essential Functions of Public...
17/Aug/2010
The course Pharmacovigilance of medicines, vaccines and biological: a pro-active. PAHO / WHO 2010 "began on August 6, this is a course with a virtual component, which will develop individual work, group sessions, real-time and working with tutors.
Additionally there will be a face meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador during the month of September and the curriculum of the course will include the completion of a work of intervention where participants develop their professional activities.
The purpose...
17/Aug/2010
The virtual course: "Designing educational programs and materials for Learning Network" began on 5 August, in its 3rd version, with an enrollment of 59 participants, many of those enrolled are students of the course graduates virtual " Tutors for Learning Network "also developed in the classroom of the VCPH
The course aims to provide opportunities for participants to experience the process of designing educational programs and materials in virtual collaborative environments, utilizing the...