Public Health

Name: Public Health
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Disseases that represent major public health problems.

Created byĽubomíra Sopková

Last updated 5/2021

English

What you'll learn

You get informations about public health organizations, the world's epidemics, noncommunicable diseases, communicable diseases, sexual transmitted diseases and zoonoses .
You also find on this course a lecture with some sources, where you can find relevant informations for your thesis.

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 2h 50m total length

Public Health Organizations11:26
Explore how World Health Organization, CDC, ECDC, EFSA, and EU-OSHA safeguard public health through surveillance, risk assessment, and safe workplaces.
The World's Epidemics27:58
Explore AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola, Zika, yellow fever, SARS, MERS, pneumonia, and Covid-19, tracing origins, transmission, vaccines, treatments, and the World Health Organization's role.
Noncommunicable diseases22:31
Explore non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes, and examine key risk factors, prevention strategies, and global targets.
Communicable diseases24:32
Explore communicable diseases, their transmission routes and complications, and prevention strategies, with a focus on hepatitis A–E and related pathogens.
STD27:40
Explore sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, HPV, syphilis, gonorrhea, and genital herpes, covering transmission, symptoms, testing, treatment, complications, and prevention, including Gardasil 9.
HIV12:50
Explore HIV transmission, testing methods, disease stages, and treatments, and learn how antiretroviral therapy and prevention strategies like PrEP and PEP reduce risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Zoonosis40:32
Understand zoonoses as diseases that jump from animals to humans via direct or indirect contact, food, water, or vectors. Learn prevention and note that antimicrobial resistance complicates control and prevention.
Where to find relevant informations for you thesis?3:12
Discover credible sources for your thesis or presentations or lectures, from Google and Google Books to journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and WHO, plus health agencies.

Requirements

No requirements or prerequisites.

Description

Public Health is a science which main goal is to improve the health and well-being of communities as well as protect the safety of communities through prevention, education, access to healthcare and research for disease. Public Health tries to prevent diseases, prolong lifes and improve quality of life of individuals and communities.

Public Health professionals:

educate, inform, empower people about health issues, especially those at risk
identify potential problems in communities
solve health problems
enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
develop plans that support individual and community health efforts
research new insights and solutions to health problems

You can ask how could be Public Health important for us? The truth is that most of people don't think about it until a crisis such as epidemic or pandemic capture their attention. Public health initiatives such as vaccinations, clean air, water policies, family planning and many more, have increased life expectancy in many states of the world.

This course is intented for Public Health students and every other people who want to learn and get new informations about some of the diseases which represent major Public Health problems.

On this course you will get informations about:

Public Health Organizations
The World's Epidemics
Noncommunicable diseases
Communicable diseases
STD
HIV
Zoonosis

And on this course you will also find a lecture with sources for your thesis.

Who this course is for:

Public health students and every other people who want to learn and get new informations about some of the diseases which represent major Public Health problems.