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Health Problems & Programmes

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  • 5 crédits ECTS

  • English

Informations générales

COURSES AND PROGRAMMES CAN BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

This core course component is an introduction to concepts and methods to analyse health problems, interventions and health programmes. This analysis helps to understand the importance of the problem (infectious and non-communicable diseases), its epidemiological aspects and economical burden, its determinants and the theoretical aspects of intervention strategies, whether preventive or curative. Basic spatial tools will be introduced to  map inequal health problem distributions. Current operational challenges in the prevention and control of key health problems are discussed with special attention to screen, test and treat, integration of care and related holistic approach, surveillance, outbreak investigation, stakeholder analysis, participation of communities and multisectoral One Health Heapproaches.

The concepts, analytical frameworks, and implementation issues are illustrated through applications in a wide range of health problems, both infectious and non-communicable diseases: tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, zika, ebola, hepatitis B, diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disorders, and others. The focus is on low- and middle-income countries and vulnerable populations. 

Objectifs d'apprentissage

At the end of the course component the participants should be able to:

  • Describe the importance/burden of a particular health problem in terms of frequency and severity, inequity, economic cost and perception and compare with the importance of other health problems
  • Apply an epidemiological model to describe different stages of health problems, their (social) determinants, transmission modes (for communicable diseases)
  • Identify theoretically possible intervention strategies - ranging from health promotion, disease prevention, cure and rehabilitation - to reduce the burden at individual and/or population level caused by a particular health problem
  • Analyse the interventions in terms of theoretical and operational effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability
  • Prioritise the listed intervention strategies for low and middle income countries taking into account the specified prioritisation criteria
  • Deal with operational challenges in the prevention and control of key health problems with special attention to integration of care, outbreak investigation, stakeholder analysis, participation of communities and multisectoral approaches

Generic competencies:

  • Search information in relevant sources
  • Critically assess data & findings in literature and other sources
  • Interpret, summarise & present information orally

Course Leader(s)

  • Veerle Vanlerberghe

Course Coördinator(s)

  • Kirsten Accoe

Course Administrator(s)

  • Sanae El Harrak