TM5525 - Communicable Disease Control
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Public Health & Tropical Medicine |
This subject examines how communicable diseases are controlled at local, national and global levels. It deals with the principles and practice of public health surveillance, control strategies and programs using real life case studies of communicable diseases from Australia and overseas. A particular emphasis on current issues makes this a highly relevant and topical subject. The role of the Internet in the global disease surveillance system is highlighted.
Learning Outcomes
- to be able to demonstrate an understanding of the knowledge, attitudes and skills required for the successful control of communicable diseases in the Australian and the global context by addressing public health surveillance, prevention of disease, investigation of outbreaks and strategies for control of diseases with a special focus on current problems in the tropics;
- to be able to describe the current strategies and systems used to control communicable diseases in Australia and globally.
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 5 | |
| Census Date 11-May-2007 | |
| Face to face teaching 14-May-2007 to 25-May-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Richard Speare. |
| Assessment: | other exams (40%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (40%). |
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