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Course details

Course type:

Short Course

Director of studies:

MyLSTM

Mode of study:

Duration:

2 Weeks

Home fee:

£1,250

Overseas fee:

£1,250

3 good reasons to study

This course guides you step-by-step through the process of planning and implementing a disease control programme.

Participants will identify a health problem from a self-selected authentic scenario.

Experienced programme managers provide guidance to enable you to apply your knowledge, and to develop your own plan to address this problem.

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

Course Outline

This course aims to provide you with a knowledgeable and critical understanding of the principles and processes of designing and monitoring a disease control programme for a low-income or middle income country. In most such countries, communicable diseases – notably TB, malaria, and HIV/AIDS – continue to be a major cause of human suffering and preventable death.

Interventions to control those diseases are well described and proven to be effective, but they are often not widely applied due to a lack of resources or political commitment, or to health systems issues. To understand these gaps and missed opportunities in service provision at district level, you will learn how to analyse underlying problems and causes in a specific context. From there, we will progress through the planning cycle, and develop the disease control plan further, developing aims and objectives and selecting an appropriate control strategy based on clear criteria.

Disease control plans require concrete actions to be implemented, monitored and evaluated. You will discover the benefits of well-designed logical frameworks and indicators. Successful plans are also the result of good teamwork, drawing from the expertise of individuals with different backgrounds. This course therefore relies on group activities, using a student-centred approach, including tutor-led presentations and self-study. Tutors will provide feedback on an outline of your own disease control plan at the beginning of the second week.

10 Academic Credits at Masters Level

Assessment is a 2500 word assignment presenting a disease control plan based on a set scenario and disease problem.

For an additional fee of £95, you can be entered for full Academic Credits for this course.

Please note that assessments may change at the discretion of the Directors of Study. All students will be made aware of new assessment details. The academic credits are offered to provide choice and flexibility to all our students, and students who do not wish to be entered for academic credits will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.

Entrance Requirements

Academic requirements:

Open to all health related disciplines, including medicine.

Work experience:

Non-graduates who are suitably qualified by experience.

English language requirements:

Attending course with Academic Credit:
The course is taught in English. Students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all learning components, or a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of at least 88 for the Internet-based Test (iBT), with minimum scores of 21 for Listening and Writing, 22 for Reading and 23 for Speaking. Tests should be within their validity period of 2 years.

Attending course – Certificate of Attendance Only:
The course is taught in English and in a postgraduate setting. Students whose first language is not English should be aware that to benefit from the course participants should have English language proficiency at the equivalent of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5.

Aims

This course aims to:

Appraise strategies, identify options and develop an action plan to improve delivery within the context of the existing health system, taking into account health care need, the socioeconomic, geographic environment and existing services.

Interpret and devise health and disease control indicators, and devise a monitoring and evaluation programme.

Identify key constraints with delivery of improved health outcomes in existing disease control programmes

Use existing global and local knowledge and intelligence to identify disease control priorities within a country.

Testimonials

The course is well organised with appropriate content, even for some of us who had no prior experience to disease control planning, we were able to learn

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Start date	End date	Home fee	Overseas fee
28 February 2022	11 March 2022	£1,250	£1,250	Apply

Start date:
28 February 2022

End date:
11 March 2022

Home fee:
£1,250

Overseas fee:
£1,250

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Development of a Disease Control Programme