Public health approaches to infectious disease
|
Learn about public health approaches to infectious disease, including strategies to reduce its impact and challenges faced by organizations. Explore prevention methods, successful public health strategies, and the importance of international and national prevention programs.
This free course, Public health approaches to infectious disease, reviews the current global burden of infectious disease, the public health strategies that are reducing the impact of some major infections and the challenges facing national and international organisations in preventing illness and death caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the glossary terms for the course
Summarise the main features of the current global burden of infectious disease and the public health movement that has evolved to reduce its impact, emphasising the contributions of epidemiology, water quality, sanitation and hygiene, global infectious disease surveillance networks, and evidence-based interventions such as vaccination programmes
Use appropriate examples and interpret unfamiliar examples presented to you, to illustrate successful public health strategies that: use education to support behavioural changes that enable people to protect themselves, their children or other community members from infection
Promote resistance to infection in the human host
Isolate a source of infection to prevent it from being passed on
Tackle an environmental source of infection
Consider a range of public health strategies, including unfamiliar examples, and identify the levels of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary) involved in their implementation
Use or analyse examples of public health interventions to illustrate the importance of international and national prevention programmes, community participation and community health workers in controlling infectious disease.
User Reviews
Be the first to review “Public health approaches to infectious disease”
You must be logged in to post a review.
There are no reviews yet.