31 Preparatory Programs in Zambia

This course introduces students to the major introductory public health concepts and tools that underpin current public health practice at the local, regional, national, and international levels. It covers the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and outcomes of evidence-based public health practice. Defining health and its determinants in the context of public health.

The course provides an overview of the evolving global healthcare landscape. The powerful forces of globalization, demographic changes and emerging diseases make the health agenda for the new millennium very challenging. This course introduces students to global health terminology used in the field in line with the priorities of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Logistics Management is the part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers’ requirements. This course provides a practical and management perspective of logistics and supply management in areas such as understanding the customer value chain, service phases and attributes, strategic logistic management, distribution channels, warehouse management, and logistic outsourcing.

Consumer behaviour is a field of study that focuses on the individuals, groups and organizations and the processes that the consumers use to choose, procure and use the products or services. Consumer behaviour as a specialized branch of study incorporates the concepts from psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing, economics, behavioural sciences, decision making science and the core management.

This course describes investment methods and plans on how to invest using effective investment management techniques. In addition, it gives knowledge about the environment in which the investment must be made to obtain a good financial return. Financial statements are used by financial experts to study and analyze the profits, liabilities and assets of an organization or individual.

Biostatistics provides an introduction to some important topics in biostatistical concepts, measurements, and reasoning. This course provides students with knowledge of statistics and their applications in biomedical sciences. It represents the need and uses of biostatistics in public health and medicine, data measurement scales, graphical and schematic presentations of various data.

Consumer behavior is a field of study that focuses on individuals, groups, and organizations and the processes that consumers use to choose, obtain, and use products or services. Consumer behavior as a specialized branch of study integrates concepts from psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing, economics, behavioral science, decision-making science and basic management.

The Public Health Policy course is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of how federal, state, and local policies shape the health care system, why health policy is important, and how to set policy. Course content is designed to advance understanding of evidence-based policies and practices to address social determinants of health and create health equity for all.

Learning this course will enable you to understand the scope and objectives of cost and management accounting, components of direct and indirect costs, cost recording and advanced methods of costing systems. To introduce the theoretical conceptsof cost and management accounting. To describe the basic concepts and processes of material, labour and overhead cost. To explain the various types of costing and budgeting.

In this Accounting and Finance course, the basics of financial statements and all relevant terms are explained as they relate to the three pillars of financial statements – balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. Analyse the performance of an organisation impacted by four fundamental drives of profitability: asset management, cost management, leverage management, and tax management.

Digital marketing is the promotion of products or brands via one or more forms of electronic media. It is often referred to as online marketing, internet marketing or web marketing. Digital Marketing campaigns are powerful, cost-effective, measurable and can optimise the business of any niche easily and emphatically. A Digital Marketing Course enables participants to learn and master the complete landscape of online marketing and associated channels.

This course gives participants a pragmatic view of general management and helps them have a detailed understanding of the concept of strategy, the strategic implementation process and its impact on the functional, divisional and corporate levels of an organization. Attempts to facilitate understanding of the concept of strategy, strategic process and its impact on functional, divisional and corporate levels among students.

Financial risks are generally classified into market risks. Due to movement in financial prices, credit risks, liquidity risks, cash flow constraints and operational risks which arise from human or technical problems. The course will cover measurement techniques for different types of financial risks and instruments. Describe the financial risk and investment management. Identify the various investment strategies.

Globally, care and emphasis on population and family health is a major goal to achieve optimal community health. This course is designed to cover the issue related to family and population health with emphasis on potential risks and vulnerable groups. In the community, in this course the student will explore the population cycle, measuring the population model of family nursing, and assessing the socioeconomic and cultural factors that influence population and family health. This course will provide educational and clinical learning experiences on the principles of community health, public and family health nursing, this course covers public health methods applied in a family assessment based intervention.

Biostatistics provides an introduction to some important topics in biostatistical concepts, measurements, and reasoning. This course provides students with knowledge of statistics and their applications in biomedical sciences. It represents the need and uses of biostatistics in public health and medicine, data measurement scales, graphical and schematic presentations of various data.