About Course
Course goal
To enhance the knowledge of health care professionals on non-communicable diseases, their risk factors, risk assessment, screening, and prevention strategies.
Course content:
- Overview of NCDs and risk factors
- Burden of NCDs
- Health Transition
- Environmental, Nutritional & Gender Issues of NCDs
- Screening & risk assessment of NCDs
- Surveillance of NCDs
- Prevention & Control Strategy of NCDs
- Global Voluntary Target 2025 & SDG
- NCD in humanitarian crisis and high-risk population
- Health System Challenges (Task shifting & Continuity of Care)
Language:
- English
Learning Objectives:
After the course, the participants will be able to
• understand the magnitude of major NCDs in developing and developed countries,
• know the burden of risk factors of NCDs and identify the shared and clustering of risk factors of NCDs,
• learn the prevention strategies for different NCDs,
• recognize the socioeconomic burden of NCDs,
• interpret different health transitions of NCDs,
• understand the globalization of NCDs,
• explain the environmental & gender related issues and special concerns of NCDs, and
• Know the health system challenges in tackling NCDs.
Course Schedule:
- Monday, 6 July – Thursday, 17 July (Saturday & Sunday off), 3.00 pm – 8.30 pm BST (GMT+6) / 11.00 am – 4.30 pm CEST
- Total 22 Lectures – Credit hours 33 (online via Zoom)
- Total 7 Group Activities – Credit hours 14 (online via Zoom)
- Total 3 Assignments – Credit hours 43 (self-study)
Please find here the course flyer and the course agenda.
Course Coordinators in Bangladesh:
Dr. Mithila Faruque and Dr. Md. Wahiduzzaman, Department of NCDs, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences
All correspondence (inquiries, organisation and registration) via the Teaching & Training Unit in Munich, ttu@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Contact
For further information, please contact the Department of NCD, BUHS
E-mail: ncd_shortcourse@buhs.ac.bd
Course Content
Inaugural Session Presentation
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Inaugural Session Presentation
