Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Prerequisites: MPBH 403 or consent of instructor.
This course covers public health topics related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The course explores topics such as: burden of NCDs in populations; the conceptual frameworks for studying chronic disease causation and control; the epidemiology of cardiometabolic diseases as well as the epidemiologic transition in relation to risk factors for the major chronic diseases (e.g. nutrition, obesity, physical exercise, alcohol and tobacco use) as well as upstream factors impacting on diseases such as food policy and the built environment; integrated healthcare services and public health interventions; and, the study designs used to assess associations between exposures and NCDs.
Outcomes: Apply frameworks to understand social and ecological determinants of non-communicable diseases, as well as the biological and behavioral risk factors across the life-course; Articulate the methodological issues in the study of non-communicable diseases including tools for surveillance, the limits of observational evidence, life-course epidemiology and genetic associations, assessment of risk and risk scores, burden of disease estimates; Explain the drivers of non-communicable disease epidemiology; Discuss interventions to prevent and control non-communicable diseases low-middle income countries.
This course covers public health topics related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The course explores topics such as: burden of NCDs in populations; the conceptual frameworks for studying chronic disease causation and control; the epidemiology of cardiometabolic diseases as well as the epidemiologic transition in relation to risk factors for the major chronic diseases (e.g. nutrition, obesity, physical exercise, alcohol and tobacco use) as well as upstream factors impacting on diseases such as food policy and the built environment; integrated healthcare services and public health interventions; and, the study designs used to assess associations between exposures and NCDs.
Outcomes: Apply frameworks to understand social and ecological determinants of non-communicable diseases, as well as the biological and behavioral risk factors across the life-course; Articulate the methodological issues in the study of non-communicable diseases including tools for surveillance, the limits of observational evidence, life-course epidemiology and genetic associations, assessment of risk and risk scores, burden of disease estimates; Explain the drivers of non-communicable disease epidemiology; Discuss interventions to prevent and control non-communicable diseases low-middle income countries.