Jan 24 - Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control
Self-paced
4 credits
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Full course description
Description
To provide students with epidemiologic and public health knowledge and skills to investigate, prevent, and control non-communicable/chronic diseases in clinical, community and workplace settings.
Instructors
Dr Shahrima Hj Sharbini
Format
Online forums will be used to support the scaffolding of knowledge, understanding, and abilities. The teaching style will include video conferencing, discussion forums, and activity-based learning techniques. The focus of the teaching style will be determined through learning diagnostics, undertaken by students, which will identify learning styles needs. A cooperative learning framework is used as a means of supporting equity for both teaching and learning styles.
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What you get
- Epidemiological methods and risk sciences
- Life-course approach of NCDs
- Epidemiology and control of common NCDs: Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic
- Respiratory Diseases and Mental Health
- Burden of diseases
- Risk factors of common NCDs (tobacco, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet/malnutrition, obesity)
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Global, regional and local mandates for NCDs prevention and control
- High risk versus population strategies for risk reduction of NCDs
- NCDs screening in Primary Care
- NCD surveillance, monitoring and evaluation in public health