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Provides basic introduction to key aspects of the discipline of public health.
- Definitions and roles of Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Health systems
- An evidence base for Public Health
- Health inequalities
- Health promotion
- Workforce needs in Public Health
Originally produced for the Peoples-uni Open Online Courses site
The Public Health aspects of climate change and its impact on populations
- Introduction to climate change
- Climate change and human health
- Climate change in the context of environmental sustainability
- Climate change, policy and politics
- What can we do about climate change?
Originally produced for the Peoples-uni Open Online Courses site
Provides an introduction for health professionals to the causes of environmental threats to Public Health, the size of the problem and how to utilise an evidence based approach to reducing these environmental threats to health.
- Interaction between the environment and health
- Identify environmental hazards and the health risks associated with exposure to these hazards
- Health impacts of chemicals, air pollution, water and sanitation, and waste
- Mitigation measures
- Review and action
Originally produced for the Peoples-uni Open Online Courses site.
The course aims to explore health systems, focusing on those in low- to middle-income countries
- Health systems - attributes, governance and strengthening
- Health care financing
- Quality and information
- Case study - vaccines
- Health workforce
Originally produced for the Peoples-uni Open Online Courses site
This course aims to provide a framework and some resources to help those in low resource settings meet knowledge needs relating to health informatics.
- What is information/informatics and why is it important
- Produce, Collect and Collate information
- Access information - make it available
- Use information for evidence based practice and policy
- Evaluating the benefits of health informatics
Originally produced for the Peoples-uni Open Online Courses site
Provides basic introduction to key aspects of the prevention of ill health
- Population-wide strategies for prevention
- Social Determinants of Health
- Health Promotion
- Policy implications of prevention
Originally produced for the Peoples-uni Open Online Courses site.
This course builds on another course in this series, Public Health - the basics, to explore the burden, causes and interventions of major diseases, and how to evaluate the interventions to reduce the burden of illness:
- Patterns and major categories of disease in developing countries
- Evaluation