Organization: University of Heidelberg
Registration deadline: 18 Dec 2017
Starting date: 08 Jan 2018
Ending date: 19 Jan 2018
This short course provides in-depth knowledge on principles and strategies of disease control and equips students with the necessary skills to successfully establish, strengthen and systematically review disease control programmes. The course mainly focuses on disease control in disadvantaged populations of developing countries. It draws on local, regional and global policies and strategies to analyse strengths and weaknesses in disease control. The course places special emphasis on strengthening multi-disciplinary and inter-sectoral collaboration and effectively involving communities and patients in disease control programmes.
Course Topics:
- Global and local burden of disease
- The role of major risk factors for disease and deaths
- Disease eradication programmes
- Principles of communicable disease control and the role of policies and health strategies
- Local examples of communicable disease control through case studies
- Principles, policies and strategies for prevention and control of chronic diseases using the example of cardiovascular diseases
- Local examples of non-communicable disease control through case studies
- New strategies in disease control using examples of successes and failures in AIDS control programmes
- Design of AIDS control model programmes in different epidemiological settings
- Health promotion as an instrument for disease control
- Integrated Management of the Sick Child Initiative (focusing on skills training)
- Financing disease control programmes in resource-poor countries
Learning Objectives
At the end of the course the participants should be able to:
- Explain the composition, distribution, determinants and future projections of the global and regional burden of disease
- Examine the role of surveillance in disease control
- Explain the differences between control of diseases and eradication of diseases
- Critically analyse the application of disease control principles using different strategies and approaches such as Primary Health Care, inter-sectoral collaboration, multi-disciplinary approaches & community participation
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of recent policies and developments in the control of a number of endemic and epidemic diseases
- Explore policies and developments in the eradication of selected diseases
- Critically apply new strategies for health promotion and disease control
- Analyse the role of formal and informal health services in disease control
How to register:
To register please follow the link to our online registration:
http://application.iph.emundus.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=1079