Study Guide
Study Guide
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Curricula starting in 2022 and earlier
Savonia's new Study Guide (curriculum starting in 2023 and after) can be found here.
Basis of Education | Competence Standards | Structure of Studies | Development of Expertise | Methods and implementation | Course Table |
Course Description
Code | 4 TYGEL80 |
Name | Communicable diseases and Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) |
Credits | 5 ects |
Objectives | Student - knows the most common NCDs and their effect on global public health - understands the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), their risk factors, determinants and prevention strategies - develops specific skills in designing and evaluating prevention strategies both for communicable and NCDs. - knows versatile communicable diseases and their effect to global public health - understands the communicable diseases as public health threats - has ability to define and describe public health disasters and emergencies that - may trigger implementation of an emergency response plan (epidemiology?) - identifies surveillance data needs for risk assessments of public health threats caused by communicable diseases - understands of the burden of communicable diseases, their risk factors, determinants and prevention strategies |
Content | - different kind of communicable diseases (vaccine-preventable diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, food-borne diseases, tuberculosis, healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance) - different kind of NCDs (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes, mental disorders) - burden of communicable diseases and NCDs and their risk factors - communicable diseases and NCDs prevention strategies and their development - implementation and capacity building with individuals, communities and -systems for communicable NCD prevention - evaluation of population-level health interventions - advocacy and the role of the various actors in NCD prevention |
Requirements | Independent studies, seminars |
Grading Scale | 0 - 5 |
Course material | Moodle learning environment contains materials |
Prerequisites | |
Other Considerations | Lectures, learning tasks, web-discussions/presentations |
Contact | Kouri Pirkko |
We reserve the right to make changes to the curriculum due to the need to update the content being studied.