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.
Este curso faz parte do Programa de cursos integrados Foundations of Public Health Practice
Foundations of Public Health Practice: Health Protection
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Aprox. 8 horas para completar
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Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business. located in the heart of London. Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.
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Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
3 horas para concluir
Module One: Water, sanitation and infectious diseases
This fourth course, "Health Protection", part of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation, is designed to introduce learners to the area of operational and strategic health protection. This first module, entitled "Water, sanitation and infectious diseases" introduces learners to WASH-based initiatives before, in the second lesson, bringing learners up to speed on basic microbiology and the science that underpins communicable disease control.
3 horas para concluir
12 vídeos (Total 47 mín.), 12 leituras, 2 testes
12 videos
Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo3min
Meet the Team (Optional): Lisa Danquah3min
Meet the Team (Optional): Helen Skirrow2min
Introduction to the course3min
An introduction to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)3min
WASH: The right to clean water3min
WASH: Working towards universal sanitation2min
WASH: Hygiene and hand washing3min
SHEWA-B: WASH in Bangladesh5min
Unintended consequences: Hepatitis C in Egypt4min
Practitioner interview: Working in WASH5min
12 leituras
About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team5min
How to be successful in this course5min
Grading policy5min
Glossary5min
The importance of water and sanitation15min
Conclusions on WASH10min
Vectors, pathogens and microbiology10min
Waterborne and foodborne diseases10min
The terminology of infection5min
Transmission and infection in communicable disease10min
Intervention opportunities10min
Conclusion2min
2 exercícios práticos
Pathogens and disease15min
Dynamics and control of infectious diseases15min
3 horas para concluir
Module Two: Vaccines and management of communicable disease
This fourth course, "Health Protection", part of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation, is designed to introduce learners to the area of operational and strategic health protection. This second module, entitled "Vaccines and communicable disease control" will cover the science and practice of vaccines. In the first lesson learners are introduced to the evidence-base and impact that vaccines have had on morbidity globally. Some of the main global players are also introduced before discussion of the ethical implications of mandatory vaccination (building on learning from the first course of this specialisation "The Public Health Approach"). Bringing all of the learning on this course together, the second lesson introduces communicable disease control and the management of health protection incidents.
3 horas para concluir
7 vídeos (Total 25 mín.), 10 leituras, 1 teste
7 videos
Vaccine preventable disease4min
Vaccines in childhood5min
Health protection outbreak scenario: Introduction59s
Health protection outbreak scenario: Conclusion2min
Vulnerability in communicable disease5min
Conclusion to the module1min
10 leituras
Welcome to the module3min
Vaccinology and key terminology5min
The global impact of vaccinations15min
The MMR controversy and the anti-vaccination movement10min
Conclusions on vaccination10min
Defining and detecting outbreaks10min
Notification of infectious disease and case definitions5min
Public health actions10min
Outbreak response to norovirus10min
An overview of incident mangement10min
1 exercício prático
Health protection in practice30min
3 horas para concluir
Module Three: Environmental hazards and strategic health protection threats
This fourth course, "Health Protection", part of the wider Foundations of Public Health Practice specialisation, is designed to introduce learners to the area of operational and strategic health protection. This third module, entitled "Environmental hazards and strategic health protection threats" examines the non-communicable disease elements of health protection - with an introduction to CBRN and exploration of the public health approach in the context of major incidents and health emergencies. In the first lesson learners are introduced to the emerging public health topic of air quality: with specific exploration of the collision of circumstances leading to London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. The second lesson moves into CBRN with a case study of the Fukushima Daiichi radiological incident of 2011.
3 horas para concluir
5 vídeos (Total 24 mín.), 6 leituras, 1 teste
5 videos
Air quality in London6min
Air quality in industrialising countries4min
Fukushima and the public health impacts4min
Conclusions to the course2min
6 leituras
An introduction to strategic health protection10min
Air quality work in the European Union10min
An introduction to CBRNe10min
Fukushima and long term health consequences10min
Major incidents and emergency planning10min
Course 5: The Emerging Public Health Practitioner10min
Sobre Programa de cursos integrados Foundations of Public Health Practice
This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.The specialisation is shaped into four courses covering the origins of public health, health improvement, behaviour change, and health protection. The specialisation will draw upon learning from the Statistics for Public Health and Epidemiology for Public Health specialisations, and builds the foundations of public health knowledge.
By the end of this specialisation, you will be able to:
1.Use the principles which underpin public health as a discipline in order to articulate public health objectives;
2.Critically analyse public health challenges using data and health intelligence in order to characterise need and prioritise actions for key stakeholders
3.Devise effective interventions using behaviour change theory and other public health approaches in order to improve population health outcomes;
4.Assess both operational and strategic health protection threats in order to recommend appropriate management actions to relevant parties;
5.Reflect upon one's own professional skills, attitudes, and behaviours in order to improve leadership capability and personal effectiveness in public healthpractice;
6.Apply appropriate health protection, health improvement and disease prevention interventions in order to improve public health programmes.
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Quando terei acesso às palestras e às tarefas?
Ao se inscrever para um Certificado, você terá acesso a todos os vídeos, testes e tarefas de programação (se aplicável). Tarefas avaliadas pelos colegas apenas podem ser enviadas e avaliadas após o início da sessão. Caso escolha explorar o curso sem adquiri-lo, talvez você não consiga acessar certas tarefas.
O que recebo ao me inscrever nesta Especialização?
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