Globalisation and Disease Occurrence (C)
Analyse the consequences of the development, spread and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
8 hours
Globalisation and Disease Occurrence (C)
What is the link between globalisation and disease trends?
This short course is organised to focus on communicable (infectious) and non-communicable diseases whose development, spread and control may have consequences on the social and economic aspects of globalisation. Priority is given to contemporary global health issues namely Tuberculosis, HIV, and malnutrition induced diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular conditions experienced across health systems. Comparative case-studies are again used to illuminate influential globalisation dimensions impacting on disease prevalence.
What topics will you cover?
- Communicable disease definition
- Global impact of communicable diseases
- Concepts in disease management and control
- Transmission of communicable diseases (routes)
- Links between globalisation and disease spread
- Surveillance and priority global diseases
- How globalisation influences malnutrition related diseases
- Global scope of malnutrition related health problems
- The people most at risk of the double burden of malnutrition
- Global policy actions against malnutrition related diseases
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Define the key concepts in communicable diseases
- Understand the links between globalisation and communicable diseases
- Understand the basic concepts in managing disease outbreaks
- Define the term “double burden of malnutrition”
- Identify drivers of malnutrition within national & global contexts
- Identify public health agents’ responses to consequences of malnutrition (e.g. diabetes & TB)
- Evaluate the role of different actors and partnerships in giving national & global level support to mitigate disease effects
- Critically analyse case-studies to understand challenges that affect effectiveness in reducing global impact of diseases
Who is the course for?
The course is designed for people with or without health sector background but wishing to seek career opportunities or progression in the hierarchy of global health as program managers, researchers, consultants, policy analysts, investors, executives, or service providers.
Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.
Who will you learn with?
Dr. Oliver Mudyarabikwa has over 30 years’ teaching and research in Public and Global Health in Africa and the UK with interest on applying Health Economics to improve health systems performance.
Who developed the course?
Coventry University
Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.
Established
1992Location
Coventry
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