2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
CIVE5035M Engineering for Public Health
30 creditsClass Size: 40
Module manager: Professor Barbara Evans
Email: b.e.evans@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2016/17
This module is not approved as an Elective
Module summary
The module takes a holistic problem-solving approach which relates potential public health interventions (primarily water supply, sanitation, solid waste management and management of airborne infections) to real-life public health challenges. The module will be taught primarily from the perspective of real incidence of diseases in developing-country settings with an emphasis on the practical design and implementation of programmes.Objectives
This module aims to equip students with the skills to diagnose prevailing public health challenges and select and design appropriate programmatic responses including a range of engineering and subsidiary interventions. The module has a particular focus on environmental health in developing countries and therefore places emphasis on typical health challenges such as epidemic outbreaks of cholera, endemic diarrhoea, endemic airborne infections such as TB, the particular public health challenges of complex emergencies and the long term delivery and management of sustainable water supply, and waste management.Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
- understand and interpret public health data;
- select appropriate engineering and associated responses to address prevailing public health problems;
- understand the requirements for designing public health responses taking into account technical, social, institutional and financial issues;
- assess outcomes and evaluate progress.
Skills outcomes
Upon successful completion of the module, students would;
- understand and be able to interpret health data in order to identify appropriate public health interventions;
- understand risk and safety, identify trade-offs and make judgements regarding cost-effective interventions and their potential benefits
- understand practical ways to respond to typical public health challenges with appropriate water, sanitation and hygiene responses
- have knowledge of the main approaches to reducing epidemic feaco-oral diseases, endemic diarrhoea, endemic airborne infections and typical diseases found in complex emergencies
- know how to assess demand, price interventions and establish user fees and other financing tools.
Syllabus
Environmental classification of diseases; Major water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases, their modes of transmission; Environmental micro-biology for use in design and management of public health engineering interventions; Safety and risk – understanding and interpreting health risks and making trade offs between interventions on the basis of costs and benefits; the management of endemic excreta-related diseases (sanitation); the management of airborne infections; public health management in complex emergencies; management of water-related diseases; management of urban sanitation; assessing demand, costing and pricing interventions; international institutions, targets and incentives.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Consultation | 15 | 1.00 | 15.00 |
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 1 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Fieldwork | 1 | 16.00 | 16.00 |
| Lecture | 16 | 2.00 | 32.00 |
| Seminar | 6 | 2.00 | 12.00 |
| Independent online learning hours | 5.00 | ||
| Private study hours | 217.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 78.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300.00 | ||
Private study
Preparation for seminarsBackground reading
Essay
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Seminar - feedback will be given the same day of the oral presentationCoursework assignments - written feedback with the returned coursework via the VLE.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Assignment | . | 40.00 |
| Tutorial Performance | . | 20.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 60.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Exams
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2 hr 00 mins | 40.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 40.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 27/04/2016
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