Department of Community Health

 

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Community health is one of the departments under the faculty of Clinical sciences.

REQUIREMENT

 

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The minimum requirements for admission to the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree programme are those for entry to the University.
Candidates may be admitted;
(i) through the Joint Matriculation Examination (JME) entrance
examination into Part I.
(ii) Through the General Certificate Advanced Level or equivalent
qualification by direct entry into Part II

PART I
Candidates must satisfy the University minimum requirements of five credits at the Ordinary Level, which must include Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and English Language.

PART II
In addition to the University minimum requirements for admission, candidates must possess.
(i) Advanced Level in the General Certificate of Education or its equivalent.
The qualifying subjects must include good grades in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry.

 

 

OBJECTIVES

 

Goals & Objectives of the Department

Departmental Goal

To contribute to health promotion and disease prevention of population groups through teaching and training activities, community-based service provision, basic and action research initiatives, and fostering of appropriate partnership for the promotion of public health at local, national, and international levels.

Departmental Objectives :

Undergraduate:

•  To collaborate with other departments and faculties to produce medical doctors with internationally acceptable knowledge of the scientific foundations of medicine, but with a clear orientation towards the health and medical problems in Nigeria

•  To train the doctors so that they have so that they have, in addition to practical skill for handling common health problems and medical emergencies, a strong inclination to broad community health, preventive medicine, as well as ability to lead a health team and manage at least a small health service; and

•  To participate in the training of other cadres of health manpower in such a way as to constitute a health team.

Postgraduate:

To produce health personnel with sufficient knowledge and skill in community health practice such that they can critically:

•  Appraise existing health service of a community, Plan and implement programs required reducing the burden of disease and promoting health within the community they serve

Research and Development Activities

  A. Research

The major thrust of departmental research initiatives include:

•  Public health nutrition

•  Micronutrient and health

•  Reproductive Health, including HIV/AIDS

•  Adolescent and School Health

•  Control of Communicable Diseases

•  Environmental health problems

•  Occupational health challenges in small- and large-scale industries

•  Health education and behaviour change interventions

•  Primary care and family health services

•  Medical education

•  Leadership in public health and reproductive health programmes

Service Activities

Members of the department are involved in service activities at various levels. Some examples of such services are given below.

Local : Service activities of the members of the department at the local level include running primary health activities at the following health facilities: Rural Comprehensive Health Centres in Imesi-Ile; Urban Comprehensive Health Centre, Eleiyele, Ile-Ife; Primary Health Care Clinic, Enuwa; Family Practice at the Out-patient Department of Ife State Hospital; and Multi-purpose Clinic, Ilesha . Other service activities include school health activities in selected schools in Ile-Ife, and environmental activities in the town market and the campus. Recently, the department created two specialized clinic-linked services: well woman clinic and adolescent and youth-friendly health services. A campus-based reproductive health and reproductive rights project for students (“Campus Health and Rights Initiative”) is also being pioneered as community-based service by members of the department.

National : Staff of the departments have provided technical support to many of the public health initiatives that have been taking place in Nigeria . These include programmes such as the “ National Programme on Immunisation”, “Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses”, “ Safe Motherhood Initiatives”, “Making Pregnancy Safer Initiative” and “Women and Children Friendly Health facility Initiative”. Other activities included development of policies and service guidelines in the areas of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Population, and Environmental Health as well as the Health Reform Process.

International : Members of the department have served in various capacities at international level within the last few years. These included serving on the Technical Consultative Group on Adolescent Health and Teenage Pregnancy for the World Health Organisation, training of health workers in other African Countries such as Sudan on integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses; and as WHO short-term Technical Officer on Nutrition at St. Helena in the Pacific region.

Partnerships

  The department has a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute of Population and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland , USA . The partnership aims at strengthening human resources, research and programme development in the area of population and reproductive health. Among others, the partnership supports the population and reproductive health track of the MPH programme. The track is also being implemented in partnership with a number of academic units in the university, including Institute of Public Health , Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

STAFF

 

Academic staff

Name	Position	Qualifications	Areas of Specialisation
Prof. E.O. Ojofeitimi	Professor	B.Sc., M.Sc (Howard), Ph.D. ( Maryland )	Public Health Nutrition, Leadership Studies
Prof. B.A. Fajewonyomi	Professor	B.Sc., M.P.H, Ph.D ( Texas )	Environmental Health
Prof. D.A. Adelekan	Professor	B.Sc. (Flor.), Ph.D. (Lond.)	Human Nutrition
Dr. A. A. Onayade	Senior Lecturer	MBBS ( Lagos ), M.P.H, DTM&H, FWACP, FMCPH	Epidemiology & Disease Control, Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
Dr. A. O. Fatusi	Senior Lecturer	B.Sc, M.B.Ch.B, ( Ife ), M.P.H. (Hadassah), FWACP, Cert. Pop. Leadership ( Wash. )	Reproductive Health, Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health Leadership
Dr. (Mrs.) O.A. Esimai	Senior Lecturer	M.B.Ch.B, ( Ife ), FMCPH	Maternal & Child Health, Epidemiology
Dr. K.T. Ijadunola	Senior Lecturer	M.B.Ch.B, ( Ife ), M.Sc., FWACP	Health Sociology, Reproductive Health
Dr. E.A. Abioye- Kuteyi	Senior Lecturer	MBBS (Ib.) FMCGP	Primary Health Care and Health Management
Dr. (Mrs.) T.C. Abiona	Lecturer I	M.B.Ch.B ( Ife ), FMCPH	Women's Health, Child Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
Mr. C.A. Adegbenro	Lecturer I	B.Sc, M.P.H (Ib.), MNSHA, FRSH	Health Education and Promotion, School & Adolescent Health
Mr. A.P. Bamgboye	Lecturer II	B.Sc, ( Ife ), M.Sc, CADC (Heideberg)	Environmental Health, and Leadership Studies

Non-Academic Staff

Senior Staff
Mr. S.N. Osunkeyede	Senior Technologist
Mr. J.O. Ajala	Technologist
Mr. O.A. Akinkugbe	Senior Laboratory Supervisor
Miss O. Ademijuwon	Senior Assistant Technologist
Mrs. F. Odeyemi	Chief Typist/Dept. Secretary
Junior Staff
Mrs. R. Adesiyan	Laboratory Supervisor
Mrs. E.A. Babawale	Typist II
Mr. M. Famoriyo	Head Messenger

 

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

 

Academic Programmes:

The department participates in the training of undergraduate medical students as well as offer two electives for the general students' population of the university. At the postgraduate level, the department runs a (regular) Masters in Public Health (MPH) programme and commenced Executive MPH programme in 2005.

1. Courses Taught at Undergraduate Level

 

CLI 240 – Biostatistics

CLI 250 – Introduction to Community Health

CLI 420 – Primary Care: Community Health/Environmental Health CLI 601 – Community Health and Rural Posting

SEH 001 – Man and His Environment (Elective)

SEH 002 – Human Behaviour and Community Health (Elective)

 

2. Courses Taught at Postgraduate Level

The MPH programme has five areas of specialties (tracks): Epidemiology and Disease Control; Health Administration; Health Education and Promotion; Human Nutrition; and, Population and Reproductive Health. The courses offered at the post-graduate level consist of core courses as well as courses specifically under each of the tracks.

 

 

A. Core Courses

PUH.601 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

PUH.602 – Bio-Statistics & Research methodology

PUH.603 – Organization & Management of Health Services

PUH.604 - Community Nutrition

PUH.605 – Fundamentals of Health Education and Promotion

PUH.606 - Family Health

PUH.607 - Economics of Health Care

PUH.608 – Fundamentals of Environmental Health

PUH 609 Public Health Seminar

PUH 648 Field attachment/internship

B. Electives within Areas of Specialisation

 

Health Education and Promotion

PUH.610 - Behavioural Science Foundation

PUH 611 - Group Dynamics

PUH 612 - Health Education, Communication and Media Methods

PUH 613- Programme Planning in Health Education

PUH 614 -Concepts and Methods of Training in Health Organization

PUH 615 - School Health

 

Human Nutrition

PUH.616 - Carbohydrate and lipid metabolism

PUH 617 - Proteins and Amino Acid Metabolism

PUH 618 - Mineral and Vitamin Metabolism

PUH 619 - Nutrition and Ageing

PUH 620 - Nutrition Education

PUH 621 - International Nutrition Problems

PUH 622- Clinical Nutrition

PUH 623 - Maternal and Infant Nutrition

PUH 624- Nutrition and Developmental Disabilities

FST 403 - Food Microbiology

 

Epidemiology and Disease Control

PUH.625 - Public Health Laboratory in Epidemiology

PUH626 - Epidemiology, Evaluation and Community Diagnosis

PUH627 - Communicable Disease Control

PUH628 – Vital & Health Statistics

PUH629 - Human Medical Ecology

PUH630 – Applied Epidemiology

PUH631 - Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

PUH632 - Public Health Dentistry

 

Health Administration

PUH.633 -Management of Health Services II

PAD.631 - Management and Organisation Theory

PAD.634 - Fundamentals of Financial and Managerial Accounting

PAD.654 - Policy Analysis and Decision Making

PUH.634 - Personnel Management in Health Services

PUH 635 - Health Services Research

 

Population and Reproductive Health

PUH 636 – Demographic Methods – I

PUH 637 – Demographic Methods II

PUH 638 – Adolescent Health and Development

PUH 639 – Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries

PUH 640 – Women and Children's Health in International Perspectives

PUH 641 – Data Analysis

PUH 642– Social Medicine & Reproductive Rights

PUH 643– Programme Evaluation in Population and Reproductive Health

PUH 644 –Development Management and Strategic Leadership in Public

Health

PUH 645 – HIV and AIDS: Policy, Programmes and Prevention Issues

PUH 646 – Seminars in Population and Reproductive Health

PUH 647- Technical and Policy Issues in Reproductive Health

PUH 648 – Field Work Attachment/Internship

PUH 649 – Family Planning Programmes and Policies

 

 

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