YEAR ONE SEMESTER ONE

1:1

This course outlines the principles, theories and methods of disease control; ways of describing Master of Public Health patterns of health and disease in defined populations; it then explores in detail selected leading threats to health, their impact on population health and the interventions used to counter them
This course deals with epidemiological concepts and terminology, basic analytic techniques and research designs and aims to provide the students with knowledge and understanding of basic concepts in epidemiology, research strategies applied in the discipline and the uses that are made of epidemiological information in public health.
Biostatistics teaches the student how to plan and conducting an investigation; understand cohort, case control studies, clinical trials and intervention studies; measures of mortality, and other vital statistics; basic descriptive, inferential analysis; methods for contingency tables; correlation and regression and non-parametric methods are all taught.
This course deals with competition regulation, equity in health economics and financing, rising costs in healthcare strategies for financing health especially in developing economies; consumer theory and demand: production theory and costs; social efficacy and markets; economic evaluation, advanced health economics for management and planning.
The course aims to introduce economic ideas that can be used in pursuit of better health and health care.