Integrating Poverty and Gender in Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals Module on Curricular Integration (A WPRO Publication)

Prepared by a team comprising Sarah Coll-Black... (et al.). Annotation The set of modules that comprise this Sourcebook are intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals. This module on curricular integration aims to strengthen the capacity of teachers, administrators, and those developing training materials to introduce changes into curricula that will ensure health professional curricula or courses include the concept of gender, poverty and health. Accordingly, the module sets out a systematic framework that incorporates the knowledge, strategies and techniques needed to develop and implement a curricula change process Module on Curricular Integration......Page 2 COPYRIGHT......Page 3 CONTENTS......Page 4 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 7 Introduction......Page 8 1. What is curriculum development and change?......Page 10 2. Why is it important to integrate poverty and gender into health curricula?......Page 14 3. How to integrate poverty and gender into health professional education curricula......Page 17 4. Facilitator's Notes......Page 35 5. Tools, resources and references......Page 40 REFERENCES......Page 50 ENDNOTES......Page 54