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courseTitle
Health & Illness in the Community 1
courseCode
HIC211
Credits
2
Pratical
4
Total Content
4
courseType
mandatory
Course id
216205
Course Description
The course is essential for the students for understanding of health and its determinants together with the factors responsible for disease to imbibe the philosophy of holistic care and comprehensive care through primary health care approach. Therefore, an orientation to the health system of Saudi Arabia is important and training in actual health system especially the PHC centers is necessary to translate the theoretical training in the medical college into practice in the PHC system Training in the PHC centers that are based in the actual community setting provide students an opportunity to have an insight to the advantages of having a primary level care facility as well as appreciate the unexploited potentials of the PHC system. In addition, it is important for the students to study the theoretical background of care of the under-five in order to maximize learning in the PHC center. The course is based on theoretical sessions in the College and practical training in the PHC centers. Each activity in the PHC center is structured.
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