الفصل الأول

Epidemiology (60 ساعة)

• Evolution of epidemiology
• International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and ICD10
• Epidemiology is a population science
• Syndromic versus co-occurrence
• Communicable disease epidemiology
• Host-agent-environment model
• Surveillance of disease
• Investigation of an epidemic
• Tools of the trade
• Measures of disease frequency
• Screening test
• Epidemiological studies designs

Biostatistics (30 ساعة نظرية + 30 ساعة عملية SPSS)

• Introduction to biostatistics
• Sampling, randomization
• Presentation of data, tables, graphs
• Measures of central tendency
• Measures of dispersion
• Probability
• Statistical Inference
• Hypothesis Testing Steps
• Non-parametric Tests
• Chi square test
• Linear regression and correlation coefficient estimation
• ANOVA
• SPSS Computer Package: Introduction for the program and its applications
• Preparing data for entry, import data from different other programs, and types of files in SPSS
• Using the spread sheet for data entry according to the type of variable
• Correct errors of data entry and prepare data for analysis and using sorting, merging, inserting variables or cases, and selecting specific cases
• Ways of transforming data by computing, counting, categorizing, recoding, and replacing missing values of the data
• Performing data analysis including: Describing the data using frequencies, exploring, describing numeric variables, and cross tabulation
• Performing Chi Square test for string variables
• Comparing means using Student’s t-test in all its applications, and ANOVA test
• Computation of correlation and regression

Health Administration (15 ساعة)

• Multidimensional Aspects of Health Care Management
• Systems Organization
• Decision Making
• Planning
• Forecasting
• Marketing
• Management Information System
• Human Resources Management
• Evaluation and Control
• Emerging Trends in Health Care

Nutrition (15 ساعة)

• Nutrition status assessment
• Community nutrition, and how to plan a healthy diet RDA
• Dietary guidelines
• Food guide pyramid
• Nutritional public health problems: Protein energy malnutrition, Nutritional anaemia, Vitamin A deficiency, Iodine deficiency

Training & Education (15 ساعة)

• Introduction
• Independent learning
• How to help student learn better
• Evidence Based Medicine
• Learning climate
• Teaching methods
• How to teach knowledge, skills, and attitudes

الفصل الثاني

Communicable Disease Epidemiology (30 ساعة)

• General consideration
• Nosocomial infections
• Malaria
• Leishmania
• Schistozomiasis
• Measles
• Diphtheria
• Tetanus
• Bordetella pertussis
• Mumps
• Rubella
• Viral Hepatitis
• Hepatitis A virus (HAV)
• Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
• Parentally transmitted non-A non-B Hepatitis
• Enterically transmitted non-A non-B Hepatitis
• Hepatitis D virus (HDV)
• Poliomyelitis
• Sexually transmitted disease (STDs)
• Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• Chlamydial infection
• Trichomoniasis infection
• Syphilis
• Gonococcal infection
• Rabies
• Typhoid and Paratyphoid fever & Cholera

Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology (15 ساعة)

• Introduction
• Epidemiology of hypertension
• Epidemiology of heart disease
• (Box) Genes
• Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular accident
• Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus
• Epidemiology of Cancer
• Stomach Cancer Epidemiology
• Lung Cancer Epidemiology
• Bladder Cancer Epidemiology
• Colorectal Cancer Epidemiology
• Breast Cancer Epidemiology
• Cancer of Cervix Epidemiology
• Epidemiology of Rheumatic fever
• Epidemiology of Peptic Ulcer
• Definition of genetic epidemiology
• General methods employed in genetic epidemiology
• Epidemiological studies of family aggregation
• Twins studies
• Adoption studies
• Inbreeding studies
• Epidemiological studies of specific genetic factors

Primary Health Care (45 ساعة)

• Concept of health care
• Health system
• Levels of health care
• Alma Ata Declaration
• Principles of PHC
• Intersectorial collaboration and appropriate health technology in PHC
• Community participation
• Equity in health
• Millennium development goals
• District health services
• Maternal mortality
• Integrated management of pregnant women and new-born
• Diarrhoeal Diseases control program
• Control of ARI program
• Immunization (EPI)
• Growth monitoring
• Breastfeeding
• Integrated management of childhood illnesses IMCI
• Adolescent Health program
• School Health program
• Health of Elderly

Health Education (15 ساعة)

• Health Behaviour and Health Education
• People working with People
• Planning for Health Education in Primary Health Care
• Health Education with Individuals
• Health Education with Groups
• Health Education with People
• Communicating the Health Messages, Methods, Media, and Tools

Behavior and Social Sciences (15 ساعة)

• Anthropology
• Pervasiveness of culture, language and culture, folk culture, and subculture
• Social role
• Social disorganization and deviance
• Culture and illness
• Socialization
• Health and illness, sick role
• Level of social influence on behaviour, determinant of human behaviour, and determinant of human behaviour
• Lay theories of illness causation
• Definition of some symptoms as “abnormal”
• Non-physical triggers to the decision to seek medical aids
• Folk illness
• Basic concept of health behavior in the following areas: Patient-doctor relationship, Patient help seeking behavior, Patient compliance with treatment, Patient appraisal of health risk, The doctor-patient consultation, Problems that might interfere with communication with patients
• Abnormal illness response, conflict, and anxiety
• Patient expectation and negotiation
• Describing doctor-patient relationship

Occupational and Environmental Medicine (45 ساعة)

• Introduction (history of occupational medicine)
• Occupational health services and programs
• Epidemiology of occupational medicine
• Epidemiology of occupational injuries
• Occupational hazards
• Heavy metals
• Toxicology (introduction)
• Occupational cancer
• Occupational lung diseases (Introduction)
• Occupational eye diseases
• Occupational skin diseases
• Occupational heart diseases
• Toxic liver disorders
• Toxic peripheral neuropathy
• Occupational deafness
• Occupational hygiene
• Child labor
• Occupational disorders of hematology
• Environmental and occupational causes of toxic injury to the kidneys and urinary tract
• Hard metals
• Occupational and environmental history and examinations
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Ergonomics
• Radiation (ionized and non-ionized)
• Dispensary at work place
• Principles of factory establishment
• Impairment, Disability, and Functional Capacity
• Psychiatric Syndromes Common to the Workplace
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Industry
• Mechanisms of Occupational Disease and Injury
• Organic chemicals
• General prevention at work place
• Sleep disorders and work
• Shift Work and Long Work Hours
• Introduction to environmental health (the Challenge)
• Environmental hazards
• Outdoor air pollutions
• Indoor air pollutions
• Water pollutions
• Ozone
• Acid rain
• Green house phenomenon
• Biologic and Medical Implications of Global Warming
• Soil pollution
• Food safety
• Nitrogen Oxides
• Sulfur Dioxide
• Particulate Matter
• Cigarette Smoking
• The Built Environment
• Chlorofluorocarbons and Destruction of the Ozone Layer
• Environmental Law and Policy
• Risk Assessment and Economic Evaluation
• Workers' Compensation
• Industrial Hygiene Measurement and Control
• Hazardous waste
• Sick Building Syndrome and Building-related Illness
• Control Approaches of air pollution
• Clinical approach to the patient with indoor air problems
• Pesticides

Research Methodology (30 ساعة)

• Introduction and scientific method
• Process of doing a clinical research
• Research Question
• Research Objective
• Research hypothesis
• Literature review
• Study Designs
• Study Subjects
• Sample size
• Study Measurements
• Principles of Research Ethics
• Writing the Research report
• Writing the Research proposal

Health Economics (15 ساعة)

• Definition of economics & health economics
• Why health economics
• Macro and microeconomics
• Economic characteristics of developing countries
• Health characteristics of developing countries
• Cost, types, concept of cost in health economics
• Cost trends and their causes
• Benefits of health care
• Economic evaluation
• Effectiveness
• Efficiency
• Efficacy
• Allocative efficiency
• Technical efficiency
• Cost-benefits analysis
• Cost-effectiveness analysis
• Cost-utility analysis

Health Care Administration (15 ساعة)

• Multidimensional Aspects of Health Care Management
• Systems Organization
• Decision Making
• Planning
• Forecasting
• Marketing
• Management Information System
• Human Resources Management
• Evaluation and Control
• Emerging Trends in Health Care

Nutrition (15 ساعة)

• Nutrition status assessment
• Community nutrition, and how to plan a healthy diet RDA
• Dietary guidelines
• Food guide pyramid
• Nutritional public health problems: Protein energy malnutrition, Nutritional anaemia, Vitamin A deficiency, Iodine deficiency

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