Aims and Learning Outcomes
This is an interdisciplinary degree, drawing upon expertise across a wide range of subject areas and seeks to explore the complexity of Public Health issues in the UK and internationally.
Learn to:
- Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and critical understanding of methods in the practice of public health including health protection, health promotion and disease prevention
- Demonstrate a systematic understanding of the national and international context and current issues of public health and health care policy
- Implement methods of assessing public health interventions
- Prepare appropriate public health protocols and policy documents
Module Syllabus
- Screening
- Targeted and population approaches to disease prevention/screening
- Prevention paradox
- Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention
- Principles, methods and applications of Screening; sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values
- Ethical and economic aspects of screening
- Planning, operation and evaluation of screening programmes
- Evidence for widely implemented screening programmes
- Health Protection
- Surveillance and methods of control
- Design and management of immunisation programmes
- Investigation of outbreaks
- Common and important infectious diseases
- Organisation of infection control; elementary molecular biology as related to microbiology
- International aspects of communicable disease control
- Health Promotion
- Different approaches to health promotion including social marketing and community development
- Health behaviour models
- Effect of interventions in influencing health related behaviour
- The role of legislative, fiscal and other social policy
- Evaluation of health promotion