2023/24 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
NUFF5590M Communicable Disease Control
15 creditsClass Size: 50
Module manager: John Walley
Email: j.d.walley@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: 1 May to 30 June View Timetable
Year running 2023/24
This module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
On completion of the module, the student should be able to:- select the appropriate interventions for common communicable diseases, including vector borne disease such as schistosomiasis;
- plan and implement disease control integrated with district health systems (eg, tuberculosis);
- control disease outbreaks;
- assess surveillance systems;
- review and plan for a disease control programme;
- understand key issues in planning and implementing disease control programmes in a broad context of health sector reform and decentralisation.
Skills outcomes
Burden of disease, policy, strategy, implementation of communicable disease prorammes - including within general health systems and the wider public health interventions.
In assignment, review of the problems, strategies and interventions most appropriate for a specific disease in their home country/work context.
Syllabus
- Selecting appropriate interventions for communicable disease control eg schistosomiasis and helminthiasis
- Plan and implement disease control integrated with district health systems eg tuberculosis
- Diarrhoea disease control
- Communicable disease control
- Surveillance
- Programming of national control programmes
- Outbreak control.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Lecture | 8 | 3.00 | 24.00 |
| Private study hours | 126.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 24.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150.00 | ||
Private study
Private study time will include:- set pre and post class session reading, such as WHO documents and published papers;
- preparation and writing notes on questions/issues related to topic of the set reading and to the forthcoming class group work/exercises;
- other reading related to references given in general reading list/books, and in handouts given out during the class sessions.
Students are expected to spend 91 hours on these activities.
Reading and preparation of the assignment: 35 hours.
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Progress monitoring during class sessions will be by observation of:- reading and observing their presentation of the key issues they have been asked to consider during private study of the set reading), and
- their understanding displayed during participation in class and group work discussion and exercises.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Assignment | 1,500 words | 50.00 |
| In-course Assessment | Brief answer communicable disease epidemiology and control | 50.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
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Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 18/10/2023
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