This is a 1-credit introductory course designed to introduce
students to the various facets of public health concepts,
the problem-solving paradigm, and to prepare them for
a multi-disciplinary approach towards public health. By
the end of the course, participants should be able to
examine public health through its historical context and
use this information in the evaluation of current public
health issues, and analyze a public health problem and
evaluate interventions and policy alternatives using the
problem-solving methodology.
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MPH302 - Basic Epidemiology: This 3-credit
course in Basic Epidemiology is designed with the objective
of introducing the subject and its fundamental principles,
uses and methods. The student should become familiar with
principles of screening, surveillance, measures of disease
frequency and association. They will be able to understand
epidemiological study designs and interpret data in a
scientific manner.
MPH303 - Basic Biostatistics:
A 3-credit core course in basic biostatistics shall be
given. It shall cover the basic statistical methods to
enable the participants to use them in such disciplines
as Epidemiology, medical demography, health planning and
management, maternal and child health and communicable
and non-communicable disease prevention and control. The
emphasis in the course shall be on development of practical
skills in Biostatistics rather than on its mathematical
basis. The student would thus acquire the ability to make
appropriate tabulations and graphic displays of data,
select and conduct appropriate methods of statistical
inference and interpret the results of analyses.
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This is a 1-credit core course. The course introduces
participants to the basic concepts of demography, its
importance and application in public health. They would
study the various methods for demographic data collection
and learn how to compute and interpret the common demographic
indicators. Participants shall be able to use this knowledge
to make projections of future population growth and its
use in planning for health services.
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This 1-credit course aims to provide the public health
professionals with skills to operate computers and utilize
softwares with speed and efficiency to improve their communications
with their colleagues and other scientists around the
world. Public Health professionals must have the expertise
to utilize statistical and wordprocessing softwares effectively
in order to produce high quality reports and publications.
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In this 3-credit course the participants are introduced
to basic concepts of social and medical anthropology.
The socio-cultural dimensions and lay perceptions of health
and medicine including the concepts and definitions of
disease, illness and sickness from the public health’s
point of view are taught. The course teaches qualitative
research methods, i.e. interview, observation and participative
techniques, and their application to public health. Students
discuss and practice methods for collecting and analyzing
qualitative data.
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This 3-credit course presents concepts, principles, and
applications of the main natural and social science disciplines
that form the basis of environmental health and describes
how these disciplines and their practitioners interact
in the environmental health paradigm. The course examines
health issues, scientific understanding of causes, and
possible future approaches to control of the major emerging
environmental health problems in industrialized and developing
countries.
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The goal of this 1-credit course is to introduce the
MSPH participants to the various facets of the public
health in light of the social determinants of health.
The main emphasis is on a holistic view keeping under
consideration the social, cultural, ecological, political
and economic factors and their mutual interaction that
influences the occurrence of disease and its management
at individual and community level.
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This course is worth 2-credits, and introduces the concept
of a health system, its various components, and the influences
of the surrounding socioeconomic and cultural environment.
Participants shall become familiar with the methods used
to assess the health system in general and the health
care delivery system in particular. The role of various
private and public sector agencies (including NGOs) and
their interrelationship with respect to their impact on
the improvement of health systems at all levels will be
analysed. They will also become familiar with methods
used to identify health problems and health needs of communities.
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