The purpose of this module is: a) To enable you to read most of the relevant literature with understanding of the statistical content. b) To permit you to carry out some analysis of uni-variate and bi-variate data. And c) to prepare you for more complex forms of statistical analysis if you wish. As most of the calculations are done by computer the only pre-requisite knowledge is an understanding of simple arithmetic.
- (2) Module Leader: Saran Shantikumar
- (2)Tutors: Moyosola A. Bamidele
- (2)Tutors: Abdulaziz Farooq
- (2)Tutors: Siobhan Horsley
- (2)Tutors: Ankush Mittal
This module covers some key concepts of communicable disease transmission, surveillance and control. Topics include understanding the Public Health aspects of communicable disease, such as transmission, surveillance of diseases of public health importance in a given setting, application and design of control programmes, the epidemiology of common diseases, immunisation, and responding to an outbreak.
- (2) Module Leader: Leena Inamdar
- (2)Tutors: Moneim Elhassan
- (2)Tutors: Huda Hassan
- (2)Tutors: Anna Jones
- (2)Tutors: Priscilla Janice Marbell
- (2)Tutors: Suzanna Mathew
- (2)Tutors: Saxena Sonal
- (2)Tutors: Mamoona Tahir
All communities are vulnerable to disaster and following the event would endeavour to limit the damage from it. Assessing and reducing the risks before a disaster occurs is as important as responding to it and dealing with the consequences; both need to be professional to be effective. This module has been developed to introduce you to the concepts and processes of emergency planning for and management of disasters within a developing world context.
- (2) Module Leader: Jan Fizzell
- (2)Tutors: Sakib Burza
- (2)Tutors: Mina Endeley
- (2)Tutors: Mohammed Abdallah Idriss
- (2)Tutors: Virginia Plummer
Evidence Based Practice is cited as the basis of all our public health and healthcare decisions, but what does that mean in practice? How do we know which evidence to use? When there is so much research evidence, why is there still so much controversy over the best course of public health action? The module covers how to formulate an answerable question, access, appraise, and use the evidence on a public health issue.
- (2) Module Leader: Denny John
- (2) Module Leader: Adi Vyas
- (2)Tutors: Vanessa Abrahamson
- (2)Tutors: James Akinlua
- (2)Tutors: Diane Ashiru-Oredope
- (2)Tutors: Patrick Hannah
- (2)Tutors: Tippawan Liabsuetrakul
- (2)Tutors: Amungwa Athanasius Nche
- (2)Tutors: Maria Papagiannaki
- (2)Tutors: Katrina Roper
- (2)Tutors: Prabin Shrestha
- (2)Tutors: Ryan Swiers
This module provides an introduction to health economics for those who want to understand the contribution of economics in the health of populations. It is oriented towards achieving the goal of Universal Health Care (UHC). The topics include sharing how economics plays a major role in healthcare, the relationship between health and socioeconomic development, healthcare financing and the road to UHC, economic evaluation in health care, and priority setting in health systems.
- (2) Module Leader: Steve Fabricant
- (2)Tutors: Liz Geelhoed
- (2)Tutors: Alex Hakuzimana
- (2)Tutors: Denny John
- (2)Tutors: Phuc Le
- (2)Tutors: Emily Pedneau
This course unit is designed to explore the concepts and theories, values and principles, and key strategies that underpin the discipline of health promotion. The unit then explores the planning and implementation process required for a health promotion intervention, and ends with the design of a health promotion plan
- (2) Module Leader: Judith Strobl
- (2)Tutors: Helen Castledine
- (2)Tutors: Gaby Gregg
- (2)Tutors: valerie little
- (2)Tutors: Donna Sager
- (2)Tutors: Rebecca Willans
Despite much success in reducing the global burden of morbidity and mortality from HIV, many populations still do not know their HIV status, are not accessing anti-retroviral treatment and live in societies where stigma and discrimination continue to be barriers to living healthy lives. This course module will cover the importance of location and population on the epidemiology of HIV, identify interventions with greatest impact on improving diagnosis, prevention and treatment and address key challenges to ending the AIDS epidemic.
- (2) Module Leader: Rachel Beanland
- (2)Tutors: Everistus Ibekwe
- (2)Tutors: Johnstone Kuya
- (2)Tutors: Baba Maiyaki Musa
- (2)Tutors: Donald Salami
- (2)Tutors: Jody Winter
This module introduces the concepts underlying epidemiology and the main methods employed by the discipline. On completing the module students should have a good grasp of why epidemiology underpins much of the effort of those charged with promoting the health of populations and for providing services to meet health related needs. Also, students should be beginning to approach published material based on epidemiological methods more critically.
Epidemiological concepts and methods are drawn upon in the other modules of the Peoples-uni course. Understanding these is essential to getting the best out of the other course units. Thus, if you are not acquainted with some epidemiology from elsewhere you should consider doing this module (and maybe Biostatistics) early on in your association with the Peoples-uni.
- (2) Module Leader: Omnia Elnawawy
- (2)Tutors: Renu Gupta
- (2)Tutors: Eiman Hag
- (2)Tutors: Serene Joseph
- (2)Tutors: SARBJEET KHURANA
- (2)Tutors: Lucas Mills
- (2)Tutors: Visalini Nair-Shalliker
- (2)Tutors: Geetha Ranmuthugala
- (2)Tutors: Prabin Shrestha
The final product of the Dissertation will be a report in which students are able to demonstrate an ability to apply critically reviewed evidence to a locally relevant public health problem. This will require a review and synthesis of the evidence, leading to a proposal for action to improve the health of a population, and a reflection on how the course has contributed to the proposal and to their own professional practice.
- (2) Module Leader: Oyinlola Oyebode
- (2) Module Leader: Jill Stocks
- (2)Tutors: Safa Abdalla
- (2)Tutors: James Akinlua
- (2)Tutors: Farhad Ali
- (2)Tutors: Temitope Arulogun
- (2)Tutors: Diane Ashiru-Oredope
- (2)Tutors: Abdulaziz Farooq
- (2)Tutors: Rabia Khan
- (2)Tutors: SARBJEET KHURANA
- (2)Tutors: Ndenengo-Grace Lekey-Kawo
- (2)Tutors: Maria Papagiannaki
- (2)Tutors: Prabin Shrestha
- (2)Tutors: Sandro Tsang
This module aims to provide information to enable you to understand key nutrition issues and then integrate this knowledge into devising evidence-based nutrition interventions and evidence-based policies that meet the health and nutrition needs of vulnerable communities in your setting.
- (2) Module Leader: BegoƱa Manuel-y-Keenoy
- (2)Tutors: Etel Godwill Fagbohoun
- (2)Tutors: Abdoulaye GUEYE
- (2)Tutors: Vandana Manocha
- (2)Tutors: Esther Ogonda McOyoo
- (2)Tutors: Esther Mill-Roberts
- (2)Tutors: Gloria Momoh
- (2)Tutors: MARY. G NABISERE
- (2)Tutors: Maria Papagiannaki
- (2)Tutors: Priya Patel
- (2)Tutors: Guilaine Tchadieu