Controlling Communicable Disease

Course Description

Introduction to concepts of pathological process from a public health viewpoint. Consideration of historical and contemporary disease patterns based on an understanding of pathogenic, behavioral, and environmental dimensions.

Learning Outcomes

• Define the spectrum of disease as they occur in humans alone and shared by humans and animals.
• Explain surveillance systems and their contributions to disease control.
• Discuss how disease is measured.
• Analyze causal factors for disease.
• Evaluate the contributions of risk factors to controlling disease.
• Explain the continuum of prevention to intervention in controlling disease.
• Trace the changing nature of disease impacts on health since data were collected.

Prerequisites

• ILR260