PHI5207 · Chronic disease: Epidemiology and prevention

Overview

Chronic non-communicable diseases represent a major global public health challenge. They affect lives of people, their families and communities. This unit provides learners with an overview of surveillance of chronic diseases, social determinants of and risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Learners will discuss epidemiology and strategies for prevention of major chronic disease groups impacting Indonesia including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, respiratory disease, and mental illness. Learners will gain practical skills for describing the epidemiology and burden of chronic diseases, assessing risk factors and analysing strategies for chronic disease prevention.

Areas of study: Public health

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse the epidemiology and burden of chronic diseases in Indonesia.
2. Evaluate methods to measure the health impact of chronic diseases.
3. Critique how social, economic, political, and commercial determinants of health interact to shape risk factors and causal pathways leading to chronic diseases.
4. Collaboratively analyse the role of public health evidence and formulate strategies that can inform chronic disease management and prevention.

Workload

24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (scheduled classes, prescribed activities and independent work)

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.