BSc Public Health / Course details

This unit will explore the basic principles of health protection including the prevention and control of common communicable diseases.  We will explore the interventions that are most effective in reducing the burden of communicable diseases.

The unit aims to develop the students' basic understanding of health protection, including the principles of communicable disease control and prevention.

The majority of the course will be through elearning which will include required and additional learning, self-tests and discussion boards.  There will be 5 webinars that will be recorded to allow synchronous and asychronous learning.

A1 Understand the basic principles of infection

A2 Understand the causative agents, reservoirs and vectors

A3 Undersand the different mechanisms of immunity

A4 Understand how vaccines work

A5 Understand the basis of communicable disease prevention and control

B1 Identify and evaluate the evidence required for health protection policy and practice

C1 Find existing sources of evidence sources of evidence relevant to clinical and non-clinical health questions

C2 Be able to critically appraise common research designs and assess the published literature

C3 Undertake assessments to evaluate communicable disease control prevention and control measures

D1 Reflect on health protection principles and applications 

D2 Develop communication skills to implement health protection interventions  

Hawker, Jeremy. Communicable Disease Control Handbook . 2nd ed. Malden, Mass. ;: Blackwell Pub., 2005. Web.

Male, David, Stokes Peebles, and Victoria Male. Immunology . 9th edition. Edinburgh?: Elsevier, 2021. Print.