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  • Epidemiology

    The Epidemiology course intends to enable students to apply epidemiological principles in measuring  population health, epidemiologic study designs, measures of association, and interpretation of epidemiological data and evaluation of public health interventions and screening tests. Moodle backup available here  [1] [1] https://www.oerafrica.org/resource/epidemiology more

  • Addressing Diarrhea Through Public Health Action: The Case of an Informal Settlement in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The case concerns an informal settlement with a high prevalence of diarrheal disease in sub-Saharan Africa, and the factors that feed into this situation. The learning aim is to apply a model for intervention – the Public Health Action Cycle, which is based on UNICEF’s Triple A Cycle for nutrition improvement. more

  • Public Health Nutrition: Policy and Programming

    This module aims to equip MPH students to critically analyse, identify and plan successful nutrition programmes. There are three units: Unit 1 provides a general overview of the nutrition situation in the world as well as an historical overview of nutrition programmes, and concludes with the identification of the success factors in these programmes. Unit 2 provides a more detailed discussion... more

  • Health Promotion I Module Guide

    Health Promotion is an important skill area for Public Health professionals, and is integral to achieving population health. The module covers four main areas, aimed at providing an insight into the concepts, history and applications of Health Promotion. It comprises a brief theoretical understanding of Health Promotion as well as practical skills in planning and implementing effective and... more

  • Micronutrient Malnutrition Module Guide

    This module, Micronutrient Malnutrition, aims to equip Public Health professionals with sufficient knowledge of micronutrients to recognise and address the problem of micronutrient deficiency at a community and population level. The module concentrates on four micronutrients, i.e. vitamin A, iron, iodine and zinc that are considered critical to Public Health, particularly in developing... more

  • The Revolving Door: Child Malnutrition in Mount Frere, Eastern Cape South Africa: Case Study

    This case study focuses on the multiple factors which feed into under 5 malnutrition (including the social determinants of disease). It is set in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa in 2002. The UNICEF Conceptual Framework is used as a tool for analysis. The case is structured as a short narrative case study followed by an introduction to the UNICEF Conceptual Framework. In addition,... more

  • Health Management II Module Guide

    Health Management is considered an important skill area for Public Health professionals. The Health Management II module is thus included as one of the core modules of the Masters Degree in Public Health. The module covers three key management areas: change management, planning and resource management. The concept of change is a recurrent theme across the module. A second underlying theme is... more

  • Digital Professionalism

      A new initiative teaching first year health science students about their online identity has proven valuable. The importance of communication skills and respect for others through social media is identified and explained. The rapid, expansive and evolving use of social media has prompted the need to interrogate its impact for future health professionals. Students in the Health Sciences... more

  • Training Trainers for Health and Human Rights

    The aims of this manual are: * To provide those interested in doing human rights teaching with a framework for training of trainers in health and human rights * To provide resources which will be of use to the training of trainers and students * To support alumni of our Train-the-Trainer courses, who now number nearly 200 people * To share our eight years of experience in running... more

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