- Manejar los conceptos básicos de la evaluación en salud mental, la metodología para implementar un proceso circular de evaluación y los elementos de mejora de la calidad.

Integrar todos los conocimientos y habilidades adquiridos durante el curso en una propuesta de intervención.

- Identificar los conceptos básicos sobre autocuidado, promoción de salud, prevención de enfermedades, rehabilitación y atención a la dependencia. - Diseñar actividades encaminadas al autocuidado de las Personas Mayores y para la prevención, rehabilitación y protección de la dependencia en este grupo poblacional. - Optimizar el diseño y evaluación de programas de promoción de salud y prevención de enfermedades para Personas Mayores. - Optimizar el diseño y evaluación de programas y servicios comunitarios para personas mayores.

- Caracterizar los sistemas de gestión en servicios hospitalarios, de mediana y de larga duración para personas mayores. - Aplicar herramientas y habilidades generales para la evaluación de la calidad en programas y servicios de salud para las personas mayores.

By the end of module one, Awareness, you will understand: - Why considering gender issues in health is important. - The concepts of gender equality, gender equity, and health equity. - The differences between sex and gender, and develop an understanding about how gender norms are constructed, maintained and reinforced. - Why and how gender and gender inequity are social determinants of health, and their relationship with other determinants.

- Increase knowledge and awareness of how outcomes in health are related to sex, gender norms, roles, relations and other determinants of health. - Initiate the building of core analytical skills for gender analysis and its application in a public health context. - Understand how the health sector can use gender analysis tools to effectively reduce health inequities.

By the end of module two, Analysis, you will understand: - Outline the principles of gender analysis of a health problem. - Define the interrelated factors that need to be examined during a gender analysis. - Understand the steps of a gender analysis and their relation to institutional mechanisms such as budgets and human resource plans. - Conduct gender analysis of the problem, - Use gender analysis in institutional planning processes.

By the end of module three, Action, you will understand: - Apply and gender assessment methods to a new or existing project or programme. - Identify key elements for developing gender-responsive actions. - Develop gender-responsive activities, work, plans, programs, or policies. - Classify top tasks and products by using the WHO GSM gender classification or AMRO/PAHO Biennial Work Plan and monitoring system.

Understanding the major relationships between the health and human rights in the context of strategies for health and human rights of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO).

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to describe the crucial steps that have been made by PAHO and WHO in the area of human rights; and identify the current obstacles in the Americas and PAHO’s strategies for overcoming them. You will also be able to describe the new trends that are strengthening health as a human right in the Americas. Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to define the terms public health, health, and human rights; and understand the relationships between health and human rights. You will also be able to recognize the most critical human rights instruments that promote and protect the right to health and other related human rights; recognize the differences between binding and non-binding human rights instruments; and identify the international guidelines on the limitations of human rights.