SAN PEDRO COLLEGE
SAN PEDRO COLLEGEDavao City
MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE DEPARTMENTMLS 200 COMMUNITY AND
PUBLIC HEALTH2nd Semester, SY 2014 - 2015
1. COURSE TITLE:MLS 200 Community and Public Health
1. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Community and Public Health is a course that deals with the
study of the foundations of community health that includes human
ecology, demography and epidemiology. It emphasizes the promotion
of community, public and environmental health. It involves the
practice of preventing disease and promoting good health within
groups of people from small communities by undertaking community
health surveillance, proposing, developing and implementing a
program or project.
1. CREDITS:5 units ( 2 hours lecture and 9 hours laboratory per
week)CONTACT HOURS:36 hours lecture and 162 hours laboratory/field
work per semester
DATEACTIVITIES
Week 1AM: Orientation to the course Student profile Group
students for Health News Reporting (5 groups) (midterm grading
period)Group I = Maternal, Infant, and Child HealthGroup II =
Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults HealthGroup III = Seniors
HealthGroup IV = Community Mental HealthGroup V = Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Other Drugs: A Community Concern Orientation about Community
Profiling & Diagnosis & project proposal and implementation
(final grading period) Orientation about: Laboratory activities:
Radio Drama (2 groups/class) Nutrition Activity (meal plan, class
lunch) Poster and/or video contest on Disease Prevention on
Ascariasis (interclass contest) Criteria to be announced Discussion
on CPH class T-shirt Orientation about the class budget (CPH fee)
Expenses during lab activities Major CPH activities Requirement of
a journal notebook (hard or soft type) to write thoughts, learning
experiences, reactions or reflections of the course major and minor
activities; this is in preparation for the making of the CPH
portfolio (Finals).
PM: Students meeting (prepare drama script and schedule
practices for the radio drama, etc.) CPH instructors meeting
Week 2
AM: Lecture 1 - Introduction to Public Health, History,
Organizations
Class team-building activities
PM:
Lecture 2 - Epidemiology Designs/ Health/ Terms
Film viewing: And the Band Played On Reaction paper required
(250 words, 8x11) Submit next meeting (record work in your journal
notebook)
Practices, class meeting
Week 3
AM: Quiz 1 (lectures 1 & 2) Lecture 3 Vital Statistics
Class Lab Activities
PM:
Lecture 4 Nutrition Assignment for next meeting
Computer work: www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/Outbreak at
Watersedge Print screen evidence of completion and write a reaction
paper. (250 words, 8x11) Prove guide questions to students. Submit
next meeting (record work in your journal notebook) Practices,
class meeting
Week 4
AM: Quiz 2 (lectures 3 & 4) Presentation of meal plan Class
lunch
PM: Lecture 5 - Communicable Diseases Lecture 6 -
Non-Communicable Diseases
Week 5
AM: Quiz 4 (lectures 5 & 6) Finalize CPH class t-shirt
Presentation of the Radio Drama
Problem tree analysis (Processing of the story)
Week 6
PRELIM EXAM
Happy Holidays!
Week 7 (MIDTERM PERIOD)
AM: Lecture 7 Occupational and Environmental Health
Lecture 8 Community Organizing/Health Promotion
PM: Film viewing: Mulanay Reaction paper about the movie. Submit
next meeting (record work in your journal notebook)
Week 8January 2015Distribution of class T-shirt
Deadline: Submission of Poster and/or video project on
Ascariasis
Group preparation for health education and promotion activity =
HEALTH NEWS REPORTING
Teachers preparation for community visit
Week 9 AM and PM Activity Health News Reporting (Live or
pre-video taped)
TOPICS:Group I = Maternal, Infant, and Child HealthGroup II =
Adolescents, Young Adults, and AdultsGroup III = SeniorsGroup IV =
Community Mental HealthGroup V = Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs:
A Community Concern
Reminder: Parents Consent Form distribution
Week 10AM/PM Activity Interview Training SEMINAR
Week 11
AM/PM Activity Community or Public elementary school visit
Scanning, survey
Week 12MIDTERM EXAM
Week 13
AM/PM Activity
This year, 2014: Health education on Ascariasis/STH
infectionsMedical Mission
Or
Teachers prerogative (depending on community diagnosis, project
planning and implementation)
Week 14
February 14, 2013 EMPLOYEES DAYBMLS 2 students work on the
following: Collation of Data Statistical Analysis Prioritization of
health problems identified Project proposal with budget plan
Writing the community report
Week 15
AM/PM Activity
Project Implementation
OR
Continue to work on the following: Collation of Data Statistical
Analysis Prioritization of health problems identified Project
proposal with budget plan Writing the community report
Week 16AM/PM Activity
Presentation of reports to the community/school (VALIDATION) or
Submission of Written Profile and Diagnosis to the Community
Week 17AM/PM Activity
Student is given this time to prepare individual portfolio. Time
to complete manuscript on community profile and project report.
Week 18Submission of:1. Portfolio (save on DVD - video, ppt or
pdf format)2. Community Survey/Findings and Class Health Project
Reports (soft/ring bound written output & CD)
FINAL EXAM schedule
CPH GRADING SYSTEM:
PRELIM GRADE: Class standing (50%) + Prelim Exam (50%)Class
standing (lec & lab): Quizzes 70% Assignments 20% Activity
participation/criteria 10%
MIDTERM GRADE:2/3 tentative midterm grade (TMG) + 1/3 prelim
grade
Tentative Midterm Grade (TMG): Midterm exam (50%) + Class
Standing (50%) Class Standing (Lec & Lab): Quizzes 70% Quizzes
70% Assignments 20% Activity participation 10%
Final Grade: 2/3 tentative final grade (TFG) + 1/3 Midterm
gradeTentative Final Grade (TFG): Lecture Grade (50%) +
Lab/Practicum Grade (50%)
Lecture Grade: Class Standing (50%) + Portfolio (lec exam
50%)
Class Standing: Health topic report performance (50%) + Quizzes
(50%)
Lab/Field Grade: Peer evaluation (30%) + Community Profile ,
Diagnosis & Health Project (70%)
RADIO DRAMA EVENT PROBLEM TREE ANALYSISDecember 2014
Directions:
Your group is tasked to present a live radio drama presentation
of the story entitled, Gregorio, Forgive Us All using Davaos Native
Tongue (Cebuano/Bisaya). You are to make a script and submit this
script to the instructor. Organize yourselves according to what you
can contribute to the required tasks at hand and submit the list of
students with their corresponding roles or involvement to the
instructor. Your class performance serves as a laboratory quiz
grade. The time allotment for each presentation is a maximum of 30
minutes including preparation. Every minute of excess would mean a
1%-deduction from your over-all rating.
CRITERIA FOR JUDGING: Creativity (Original, innovative,
inventive?)20% Clarity of Message20% Technical Quality (sound
effects, music, voice etc.)20% Overall quality of the script
(translation) 20% Impact 20%
Gregorio, Forgive Us All(Based from Our Health, Our Lives)Book
Project Committee, NEHCC, NCCP
It was weltering hot that afternoon not unusual in the
Philippines, but not a time for hurrying either. Thats why I knew
something was wrong when a man came hurrying up the stairs of the
convent.
The man was Gregorio and he told me his wife, Lina, who was
pregnant, was sick with cholera. He and a friend had carried her
for four hours from their mountain home using a hammock as
stretcher. When they arrived at the town of Togoc, they found the
doctor had gone.
Togoc is one of the several parishes situated in the mountains
of the island of Negros with the population of some 20,000 people.
The pastor there now, Fr. Eugenio, tell me that they have no
doctor, though they still have a dilapidated clinic. When I was
there, about a year ago, a doctor sometimes visited us.
Gregorio wanted to borrow our vehicle to take his wife to the
hospital in the lowlands a 2-hour-ride over a rocky road. I
explained to him that Fr. Hilario had taken the jeepney, but I
would go with him to the clinic anyhow to see what could be done.
We found Lina lying at the clinic crying out in pain.
Obviously, she desperately needed help, so we hurried out to
search for the young doctor assigned to Togoc for six months rural
training. But he was always in an outlying and so we waited for
what seemed like ages before he came back. He immediately wrote out
a prescription for Gregorio, who ran barefoot along the road to a
little shop stocked with a pitifully small supply of medicines. He
was back in a few minutes, only to say the shop didnt have the
medicine. The doctor wrote another prescription. Gregorio sped away
again, only to return once more breathless and empty handed.
We need dextrose, said the doctor, but there is none here in
town. All of us fanned out through the neighborhood asking people
if they had any. Finally, a woman produced a half-filled bottle
left over from what her husband used before he died. I brought it
to the doctor.
He looked up exasperated and said, The clinic has no dextrose
needle. Well have to take her down to Kabankalan.
Doc, you know shell die on the way, I said. Isnt there anything
you can do?
He then tied to give the dextrose with a large needle, but the
vein in her arms and legs had collapsed. He tried the veins on the
neck. That was no good either.
We all stood there helpless as Lina screamed in pain. Gregorio
was mute with confusion: their little child was wandering around
the bed. Finally, the doctor gave her some Coca Cola the only
medicine available. Once more the doctor insisted Lina would have
to journey down to Kabankalan. Since the priest wouldnt be back,
there was nothing else to do but start the haggling for a rented
jeepney. It would be expensive and Gregorio had nothing, but we
were in no position to haggle with a life at stake.
Gregorio laid Lina on the same hammock that he had used to carry
her down the mountain, and strung it up inside the jeepney. All the
time she cried out in pain. We had no sedatives, to calm her with.
The doctor sat beside Gregorio.
Before they left I whispered to Lina to be brave. There would be
help. Hang on, I said.
The jeepney moved slowly, bouncing along that terrible road
until it slowly disappeared from sight. I whispered a hopeless
prayer as if God who forgives would also, at a stroke, undo the
accumulated effects of our unjust system.
When Fr. Hilario got back to the convent the following
afternoon, I poured out the story to him, as we were taking,
Gregorio appeared at the door. He looked as if he had walked the
whole way back which was over 30 kilometers.
His face told the story Lina had died halfway down the journey.
She had begged to stop the jeepney; the pain being too much. They
stopped, and as they did, she died and so also taking the life of
the child inside.
And now followed a strange development, the doctor and driver
insisted that maybe she was still alive! They would not heed
Gregorios pleas to return to Togoc. So the jeepney continued on and
deposited Gregorio and his dead wife at a doctors house clinic in a
large barrio!
The doctor was not there, and the housewife naturally got mad at
Gregorio for bringing a dead patient. But the jeepney driver would
not carry Gregorio and Lina any further. Against the law, he said,
and of course, it would be bad luck too.
The young doctor must have had very little understanding of just
how destitute Gregorio was how desperately poor most of our people
are because what he did next still amazes me. He went on to
Kabankalan with the jeepney driver and asked an expensive
Western-style funeral home to take care of the corpse. For
Gregorio, who had to pay for the expenses anything was better than
to leave his wife in an unfriendly house.
Now Gregorio stood there numb and exhausted. What else could he
do? The funeral home would not return the body till he paid the
bills for embalming and for bringing the body back to Togoc. It was
Php 8000. This was more than any amount Gregorio had ever held in
his whole life. Just think that Php 250 worth of medicine would
have saved the life of both Lina and her baby! It was the end as
far as I was concerned. But not for Gregorio, he would borrow the
money from us and sell his land to pay us!
I suggested we send down our vehicle for the body, but there was
a question about that being illegal. And then, would Perfecto, our
faithful driver, overcome the same superstitious fear of carrying a
dead body in his vehicle?
Apart from that, said Fr. Hilario, Our beat-up vehicle might
never make it down and up again.
Gregorio watched us argue. He was beyond feeling.
Finally, we decided to consult Perfecto. When Fr. Hilario left,
Gregorio pleaded, Father, dont leave Lina in Kabankalan and he
wept.
Perfecto was brief and to the point the vehicle will make it
down, and well get it welded there. Then Ill drive it back Im not
afraid to carry a dead body.
Then we planned on how to deal with the funeral home there would
be some brutal bargaining to do.
I have not told this story well; the details have been smothered
over by so many similar incidents. Did Gregorio carry Lina for
eight hours, not four? Did we get the body back for Php 1500 or
what? The cases blur in similarity and your mind stops making
distinctions.
Sometimes, Im tempted to think that if we had enough money to
supply the poor with medicines, or not have to argue over the
hiring of a jeepney, or not have to worry about the wreck that our
vehicle is, the problems would end.
That might help relieve our worry and tension, but it would not
solve the problems, for they are recurrent and deep rooted.
When we brought Lina back to Togoc, Gregorio asked for the lid
to be taken off the coffin so that he could be photographed with
his child and wife for the last time. Im afraid the picture is not
clear enough to be printed.
But when I look at it I sometimes wonder Gregorio, where are you
now? Have you returned to your mountain plot? Who looks after your
little child? Do you blame yourself for poverty, for Linas death?
Will you ever escape from the shadow of failure that is not your
fault, but is rooted in exploitative and oppressive systems?
Will we ever wake up?
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PEER EVALUATION FOR GROUP ACTIVITIES
EVALUATOR: _________________________________YR/SEC_________GROUP
NO._______EVENT: ______________________________________
Please evaluate your group mates. Evaluate by rating 1 to 5
based on the criteria indicated in the column headings, 5 as the
highest and 1 as the lowest.
PEER EVALUATION
NAMES (group members)Criteria (Rate 1 to 5)Total Scores(15)
Attendance in MeetingsContribution to the Projects
ConceptParticipation in the making of the project
HEALTH NEWS REPORTING
TOPICS:
Group I = Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Group II =
Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults Group III = Seniors Group IV
= Community Mental Health Group V = Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other
Drugs: A Community Concern
CRITERIA:
Content of proceedings (accurate, comprehensive, timeliness)
Creativity of presentationMastery of Report (individual)Evidence of
Teamwork Ability to answer questionsPeer Evaluation 25%
15%25%10%20% 5%
Requirement: Hard & soft copies to be submitted at least a
day before the scheduled reportTime: 20-min presentation, 10-min
question and answer
PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES
NOTE:1. The Portfolio is the final lecture exam.2. The Portfolio
is made individually.3. The individual portfolio is saved in DVD
with your full name as your filename and is to be submitted by
group (health news grouping).4. Label the DVD properly with your
section, group number and full name.5. Submission is on the CPH
final exam date. 5% deduction for every 1 day delay of
submission
GUIDELINES:
1. Identify at least ten (10) CPH highlights.
2. Each event is equivalent to ten points, to get the ten points
consider the following: Present proof or documentation of the
activity Describe the nature of the activity State the impact and
learning of the activity Show creativity Give recommendations
COMMUNITY SCANNING & SURVEY
Suggestions for organizing teams:
Class Leader (oversees everything)Class Treasurer/disbursing
officer (responsible for liquidating fund, gather proofs (O.R.) of
purchases and acknowledgment receipts of service fees, submit
financial/liquidation report to the instructor)
5 Teams:1. Community survey team (scanners, inspectors, field
researchers/interviewers) Assign team leader Observe the community
in general (be keen in observing the environment) Are actively
involved in the interview of respondents Assign a writer to
describe or interpret findings
2. Barangay Hall team Assign a team leader Assign a pair to
interview the barangay officials to accomplish Chapter 1 of the
report; see worksheet. Assign a writer to describe Chapter 1 of the
report Assign an artist to draw the layout of the purok/barangay
(only if possible or you can already get a copy of the existing map
of the barangay) When done, help in the interview of
respondents
3. Barangay Health Center team Assign a team leader Assign a
pair to interview the health personnel to accomplish Chapter 2 of
the report; see worksheet Assign a writer to describe the health
status of the population When done, help in the interview of
respondents
4. Action Plan Team Help in the interview of respondents Assign
a team leader Heads the class meeting in which each team can
present their findings Discuss identified health
problems/issues/concerns Prioritize problems (1st, 2nd, 3rd, so on)
and examine your resources Name your project, write goal and
objectives (S.M.A.R.T.), schedule your activities, determine how to
evaluate and monitor outcomes Project should be health-related.
Worksheet:Health problem to be addressedName of
ProjectGoalObjectivesAction/activities to be taken Who will do
it?TimescaleEvaluation & monitoring measures
Assign a writer to accomplish Chapter 4 of the report
5. Documentation Team Are actively involved in the collation of
data, analysis of data Take photos and document the happenings of
the survey Head writer and all assigned team writers Consolidation
of written reports and printing of final report Assure the timely
submission of the written report.Worksheet for the Barangay Hall
TeamMLS 200 Community and Public Health
Visit the Barangay Hall. Introduce yourselves and the purpose of
your visit. Be courteous. Print this worksheet. Bring extra paper
and flash drive for copying/saving information. Ask for the
following information.
1. Description of the barangays geographic location (ex.
distance, total land area, land or soil type, residential or
agricultural zone)
Follow-up: When was the barangay established?
2. Total population, age distribution and gender distribution
(according to the latest survey done*)
3. Ethnicity (race) and religion (*)
4. Language and literacy (*)
5. Transportation Systems
6. Recreational facilities (ex. parks or playground)
7. Places of worship (chapels, churches)
8. Media (TV/Radio stations, newspapers)
9. Public and private schools, colleges, universities, nursery,
kinder, vocational
10. Barangay health, hospital/clinic personnelHealth facilities
(dental clinic, laboratory, pharmacy, hospital, etc.)
11. Barangay officials and number of personnelPublic safety
officePublic offices and establishments
12. Business & IndustryAgricultural sectorIndividual
businesses and local industries (restaurants, stores,
etc.)Attorneys, accountants
13. Civic, social, religious & voluntary agencies
Worksheet for the Barangay Health Center TeamMLS 200 Community
and Public Health
Visit the Barangay Health Center. Introduce yourselves and the
purpose of your visit. Be courteous. Print this worksheet. Ask for
the following information.
A. Top ten illnesses/morbidity cases
1.
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8.
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10.
B. Top ten causes of death
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10.
C. Measures of health Birth/fertility rate, maternal mortality
rates, specific mortality rates, etc.
If none, get the variables (total number and total population)
and do the computation.
D. Status of the vaccination program
E. List all the names of the BHC personnel (physician, midwife,
nurse, nutrition scholar, BHW, volunteer)
Follow up: What is the address of the health center?
F. What are the medical services offered?
Follow up: How do you think we, as CPH students, can help the
barangay in terms of health promotion?
G. On the average, how many patients visit the Health Center
daily? What day is the busiest? On what days of the week can we see
the physician?
Please review the following for the format and content of the
Community Profile and Health Project
Deadline of submission: CPH Final Exam date.
(This is the cover page.)
San Pedro CollegeDavao City
Community Profile of Barangay/Sitio/Purok ____(Title of Health
Project)
In partial fulfillment of the requirements inMLS 200 Community
and Public HealthDepartment of Medical Laboratory Science
Class of BMLS 2___Preceptor Julie J. Tiu, RMT, MPHSecond
Semester, SY 2012-2013
Format: 1. Short coupon bond, 8x112. 1-inch margin, all sides3.
Arial, font 114. Single space in paragraph5. Soft/ring bound, 2
copies (barangay and department)
(The following are the contents of the community profile and
health project report.)
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceTable of Contents
Chapter 1: Characteristics of the Communitya. Geography (with
map, only if possible)b. Numbers/populationc. Age distribution and
gender distributiond. Ethnicity and religione. Language and
literacyf. Transportation Systemsg. Recreational facilities (ex.
parks or playground)h. Places of worship (chapels, churches)i.
Media (TV/Radio stations, newspapers)j. Education (public and
private schools, colleges, universities)k. Health and Welfare i.
Barangay health, hospital/clinic personnelii. Health facilities
(dental clinic, laboratory, pharmacy, hospital, etc.)l. Government
sectori. Barangay officials and number of personnelii. Public
safetyiii. Public offices and establishmentsm. Business &
Industryi. Agricultural sectorii. Individual businesses and local
industries (restaurants, stores, etc.)iii. Attorneys, accountantsn.
Civic, social, religious & voluntary agencies
Chapter 2: Health Status of the Populationa. Top ten illnessesb.
Top ten causes of deathc. Measures of health (Birth/fertility rate,
mortality rates, etc.)d. Status of vaccination coverage
Chapter 3: Community Survey Resultsi. Introductionii.
Tables/graphs/figures with analysis and interpretation
Chapter 4: Setting of Priorities and Health Project1. The
Identified priority health problems(Rank or prioritize health
issues based on: magnitude of the problem, seriousness of the
problem, feasibility of a successful intervention)2. Name of the
(proposed) health project3. Writing of goals and objectives4. Cost
of project5. Activities6. Evaluation and monitoring of outcomes
Appendices:1. A copy of the IEC material produced, if
applicable.2, Pictures with description3. A copy of letter/s
submitted, if applicable4. BMLS 2 class list and
team/roles/positions5. Class picture with CPH preceptor (please
indicate names below the picture)
CRITERIA FOR GRADING THE FINAL LABORATORY EXAM
PEER EVALUATION
30
CONTENT OF WRITTEN FINAL REPORT(Format, completeness)
20
ACCURACY(Findings, analysis, interpretation)
25
SUCCESS/IMPACT OF PROJECT(goal/objectives, activities,
measurable outcomes)
25
PEER EVALUATION
10 = Attendance in meetings
10 = always present & punctual 8 = present but comes late at
times 6 = present but always comes late 4 = absent at times 2 =
present only once 0 = never present
10 = Performance according to tasks Designation10 = all tasks
done excellently 8 = almost all tasks done really well 6 = tasks
done well 4 = tasks not done well 2 = tasks poorly done 0 = not
done at all
10 = Overall involvement to the success of the report and
project implementation
10 = outstanding 8 = very strong/very active 6 = strong/active 4
= less active 2 = poor involvement 0 = never involved at all
Deadline of submission: CPH Final Exam date
San Pedro CollegeMLS 200 COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTHPeer
Evaluation Report
Name of Evaluator: ________________ BMLS 2__Date
submitted:__________
Please evaluate honestly your classmates performance and
contribution to the accomplishment of your community profile and
health project. Submit this together with your portfolio and
community profile.
No.Name of ClassmateAttendance
(10)Performanceof task designation
(10)Overall involvementto the success of projects(10)Total
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