TM5556:03
Public Health Aspects of Chronic Diseases
| Cairns | HECS Band 2 |
November block mode.
Available to students enrolled in MPHamp;TM, MPH, PGDPHamp;TM, PGDTMamp;H or DrPH. Students should have clinical experience of managing chronic diseases.
Staff: Professor R McDermott.
This subject covers the demographic and health transitions; What is a chronic disease? Measuring health outcomes in chronic disease programs; epidemiology of chronic diseases: global and local perspectives; clinical aspects of diabetes, CVD, renal disease, chronic respiratory diseases; social determinants of chronic diseases; primary, secondary and tertiary prevention: the prevention paradox; economic aspects of chronic diseases; health systems development and chronic diseases; public health approaches to prevention: the “new” public health.
Learning Objectives:
- to identify key historical aspects of health transitions and understand basic demogrphic techniques and terminology;
- to describe the measurement of chronic disease indicators and risk factors and approaches to measuring health outcomes in chronic disease interventions;
- to gain a basic understanding of the aetiology, pathophysiology and clinical management of diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, renal disease and asthma;
- to describe the epidemiology of chronic diseases;
- to understand the framework for social determinants in epidemiological thinking;
- to describe population-based approaches to primary prevention, early detection and management in high-risk groups the the role of tertiary services;
- to describe standard approaches to economic evaluation of the impact of chronic diseases;
- to understand the importance of a health system’s approach to improving services and outcomes for people with chronic and complex needs for care.
Assessment by assignment (30%); group project (30%); two interim quizzes (20% each).