Course Details
Country:
Australia
Institution:
University of New South Wales
Course Title:
Principles of Prevention and Public Health Surveillance
Course Number:
PHCM2005
Course Description:
Disease surveillance and population health monitoring represents one of the most important tools for public health, for early disease detection and prevention, and the monitoring and evaluation. Early detection of and rapid response to a public health threat has huge potential to save lives and costs from preventing hospitalisations and deaths. This course provides an overview of different types of surveillance systems and the sources of data that are used by such systems to generate useful information to inform evidence-based public health action. Students learn to assess the challenges and limitations associated with different types of public health surveillance and develop the skills to examine the tools and approaches that can be used to improve their effectiveness. The course looks at principles of disease prevention more broadly. Public health prevention measures are discussed including immunisation and screening, using case studies for both communicable and non-communicable diseases. The role of epidemiological
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GCH 494
Course URL:
https://sph.med.unsw.edu.au/course/phcm2005
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