Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection at Coursera Overview
Duration | 9 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Credential | Certificate |
Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection at Coursera Highlights
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- Course 4 of 4 in the Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 9 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection at Coursera Course details
- The Health Protection course is the fourth instalment of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (MPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on decades of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, practitioner interviews and a wide range of interactive activities, learners will be immersed in the world of public health practice.
- Designed for those new to the discipline, over three modules (intended for three weeks of learning), learners will become familiar with the scope, principles and nuances of health protection in the context of public health practice. Beginning with the basics of Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH) based interventions, the course will introduce learners to the science and principles of practical microbiology, before examining vaccines, incident management and the threat posed by a wide range of manmade and natural environmental threats. By the end of this course, learners will be familiar and conversant with core health protection principles and approaches, and confident in discussing health protection issues when they move into practice.
Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection at Coursera Curriculum
Module One: Water, sanitation and infectious diseases
Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder
Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo
Meet the Team (Optional): Lisa Danquah
Meet the Team (Optional): Helen Skirrow
Introduction to the course
An introduction to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
WASH: The right to clean water
WASH: Working towards universal sanitation
WASH: Hygiene and hand washing
SHEWA-B: WASH in Bangladesh
Unintended consequences: Hepatitis C in Egypt
Practitioner interview: Working in WASH
About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team
How to be successful in this course
Grading policy
Glossary
The importance of water and sanitation
Conclusions on WASH
Vectors, pathogens and microbiology
Waterborne and foodborne diseases
The terminology of infection
Transmission and infection in communicable disease
Intervention opportunities
Conclusion
Pathogens and disease
Dynamics and control of infectious diseases
Module Two: Vaccines and management of communicable disease
An introduction to vaccines
Vaccine preventable disease
Vaccines in childhood
Health protection outbreak scenario: Introduction
Health protection outbreak scenario: Conclusion
Vulnerability in communicable disease
Conclusion to the module
Welcome to the module
Vaccinology and key terminology
The global impact of vaccinations
The MMR controversy and the anti-vaccination movement
Conclusions on vaccination
Defining and detecting outbreaks
Notification of infectious disease and case definitions
Public health actions
Outbreak response to norovirus
An overview of incident mangement
Health protection in practice
Module Three: Environmental hazards and strategic health protection threats
The challenge of air quality
Air quality in London
Air quality in industrialising countries
Fukushima and the public health impacts
Conclusions to the course
An introduction to strategic health protection
Air quality work in the European Union
An introduction to CBRNe
Fukushima and long term health consequences
Major incidents and emergency planning
Course 5: The Emerging Public Health Practitioner
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