Public Health in Emergencies
- Description
- Curriculum
- Reviews
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Public Health Foundations
Module 3: Epidemiology
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Lesson 1: Disease Frequency Measurements -
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Lesson 2: Disease Surveillance Systems.
What you will learn
- Define public health surveillance and its core purpose.
- Describe the core components of the public health surveillance cycle.
- Differentiate passive, active, syndromic, and sentinel surveillance systems.
- Understand how surveillance data is used to detect outbreaks and guide public health responses.
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Lesson 3: Field Data Interpretation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain the pathway from collecting data to taking public health action.
- Apply the "Person, Place, and Time" framework to analyze surveillance data.
- Interpret common disease trends and simple measures (like Case Fatality Ratio).
- Recognize how poor data quality (e.g., missing reports) skews interpretation.
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Lesson 4: Epidemiological Study Designs
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Differentiate between observational and experimental study designs.
- Explain the difference between descriptive and analytic observational studies.
- Describe the key features, strengths, and weaknesses of cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies.
- Understand the gold standard of experimental designs (Randomized Controlled Trials).
Module 4: Health Promotion
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Lesson 1: Behavior Change Foundations
Learning Objectives
- Define health promotion and its role in community health.
- Explain the core components of the Health Belief Model.
- Identify the different stages in the Stages of Change (Transtheoretical) Model.
- Understand how social and environmental factors influence behavior (Social Cognitive Theory).
- 11 Lesson 2: Audience Segmentation in Health Massages
- 12 Lesson 3: Communication Channels
- 13 Lesson 4: Monitoring Outreach Activities.
Module 5: Infectious Disease Control.
Module 6: Non-Commununicable Disease Prevention
Module 7: Environmental Health
Module 8: Health Systems and PHC