Master of Public Health s1

SYLLABUS

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

SESSION 2013 - 2015

MPH11: Epidemiology

v  Recent development in epidemiology

v  Definition, scope and use of epidemiology

v  Epidemiology and public health

v  Achievement in epidemiology

v  Measuring health and disease

v  Measuring disease frequency

v  Death rates

v  Observation epidemiology

v  Experimental epidemiology

v  Potential errors in epidemiological studies

v  Causation in epidemiology

v  Communicable diseases

v  Clinical epidemiology

MPH12: Bio statistics

v  Principle of biostatistics

v  Properties of measurement

v  Measuring reliability and validity

v  Sampling

v  Source of date

v  Population

v  Strategies for understanding the measure of data

v  Descriptive statistics measure of central tendency

v  The coefficient of variation (C,V)

v  Conditional probability

v  Marginal probability

v  Using sample date to make estimates about population

MPH13: Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health

v  What is the difference between sex and gender.

v  What are the mechanisms that relate gender to wellness and illness.

v  health in a cultural perspective

v  Race and Ethnicity

v  Poverty

v  Social Support, and Social Capital

v  Role of Families

v  Rational Decision Making

v  Spirituality

v  Change Within Systems

MPH14: Ethics in Public Health.

v  Tradition and profession and values in public health

v  Research ethics in public health

v  Special ethics concerns

v  Public health research and practice in international settings

v  Community base practice

v  Ethics and infections disease control

v  Public health genetics

v  Public health and health system reform

MPH15: International Nutrition

v  Presents major nutritional problems that influence the health,survival,

v  Developmental capacity of populations in developing societies.

v  World declaration on the survival, protection and development of children.

v  Millennium development Goals ( MDGs)

v  Under nutrition

v  Community, national, and international levels to improve nutritional status.

v  Full economic development through targeted public and private sector interventions that address the causes of malnutrition.

v  Breast and complementary feeding

v  Community based Nutrition interventions

v  Nutrition and HIV infection

v  The Nutrition Transition

MPH21: Environmental Health and sustainable development

v  Human impact on the environment

v  Environment-human interaction

v  Environmental impact on humans

v  Exposure, dose, response

v  Environmental toxicology

v  Environmental carcinogenesis

v  Risk assessment and management

v  Indoor and outdoor air pollution

v  Environmental health economics and policy

v  Occupational health

v  Food- and water-borne disease

v  Municipal, industrial, and hazardous waste

v  Environmental justice and policy

v  Risk communication

MPH22: Research Methodology

v  Definition of Research

v  Motivation in Research

v  Types of Research

v  Significance of Research

v  Research and scientific method

v  Research process

v  Criteria of a Good Research

v  Problems encountered by researchers in India

MPH23: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

v  Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology

v  The Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Disease

v  Modeling of Infectious Disease

v  Measles

v  Disease Eradication

v  Nutrition and Infection in the Developing World

v  Epidemiology of Diarrheal Diseases

v  TB Epidemiology

v  Influenza Virus and Disease, Epidemics and Pandemics

v  CNS Viral Infections

v  Lyme Disease and Its Epidemiology

v  Epidemiology and Control of Malaria

v  The Epidemiology of Hepatitis B and A Infections

v  Hepatitis C and E

MPH24: Public Health biology

v  Disease ecology

v  Pathogens and host immunity

v  Treatment and genomics of infectious diseases

v  Current molecular techniques and cancer genetics

v  Breast and prostate cancer

v  Public health biology

MPH25: The Urban Environment

v  A Framework for the Study of Urban Health

v  Global Urbanization: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Impacts.

v  The Urban Environment and Health in Developing Countries

v  The Urban Social Environment

v  Urban Health Issues

v  The Burden of Urban Ill-Health from Road Transport in Developing Countries

v  Urban Primary Health Care and Health Systems

v  Urbanization and the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

v  Feeding Cities

v  Urban Intervention Case Studies

v  Selected Strategies to Improve Access to and Quality of Urban Primary Health Care

For OPJS University.

Churu - Rajasthan India