Introduction to Global Health Science
Module leads
Learning objectives:
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To have a clear outline of the global burden of disease;
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To understand what drives the incidence of disease in terms of population at risk and prevalence of exposures;
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To understand how preventive measures and effective treatments have greatly reduced mortality rates;
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To know how the evidence emerged about some of the major causes of premature death.
Sessions:
- Halving premature death
- Infectious disease and major epidemics
- Global burden of cardiovascular disease
- Global burden of respiratory disease
- Global burden of maternal and child health
- Global burden of injury
- Epidemiology of dementia
- Global burden of cancer
- Global burden of communicable diseases
- Global burden of NCDs and global impact