PHPC0221 Current Topics in Public Health
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| Course Code | PHPC0221 | ||
| Course Title | Current Topics in Public Health | ||
| Class Date | 18, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 25 July 2023
(26 July 2023 is reserved for class make-up in case there is any cancellation of classes due to bad weather or other unexpected factors.) |
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| Class Time | 1:00pm – 3:30pm | ||
| Class Location | TBC | ||
| Teacher | Prof. WONG Lai Yi Eliza
Professor JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Assistant Professor JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Nelson Chun-yiu YEUNG Assistant Professor JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lecturer JC School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| More about JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK | |||
| Medium of Instruction | English supplemented with Cantonese |
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| Course Description | This course aims to provide an overview of public health studies to students with valuable insights into population health topics:
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| Course Content |
Health Promotion and Behavioral Interventions
The lecture provides students with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of health promotion. Students will learn about the different approaches of health promotion, and the process of creating and implementing health promotion programmes in the community.
The Role of Public Health in COVID-19 Outbreak This lecture will provide basic knowledge to the students about the role of public health during an infectious disease outbreak. Students will better understand the importance of infectious diseases on public health and differentiate the clinical implication between the virologic and serological assays through participating class lecture and experiments on detection of nucleic acid an antibody.
Environmental Health This lecture is an introduction to environmental health and field monitoring studies. It will introduce how environmental factors affect human health and gain first-hand experiences skills by conducting field studies.
Introduction to Behaviour and Mental Health This lecture aims to provide a fundamental review of the relationship between major lifestyle behaviours and physical and mental health outcomes; and review the concepts and theories related to people’s psychological adaption to chronic illnesses. It also discusses the impacts of chronic diseases on mental health outcomes among patients and their caregivers and effective interventions for adaptation to chronic illnesses.
It will adopt interactive class activities to help clarify students concepts regarding the roles of lifestyle behaviours on people’s health outcomes. Class activities regarding proposing self-help interventions and developing strategies for positive coping among people with chronic health conditions will also be included.
Digital Health Digital technology can be helpful professionals to monitor parents’ health, chart the progress of patients’ health status and improve the health care system. This lecture will provide an overview of digital health for patient management, including electronic health records from the hospital authority and health data from the community and big data and artificial intelligence related to health.
It aims to introduce students to digital health technology and data in the healthcare arena and by health care professionals and provide students with knowledge and understanding of electronic health records, data use, point of care testing, telemedicine, and digital health systems.
Obesity This lecture will introduce the obesity-related problem and discuss the public health strategies address to the problem by illustrating the size of obesity-related problems worldwide and covering different public health strategies addressing obesity.
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| Learning Outcomes | After completing this course, students will be able to:
Health Promotion and Behavioral Interventions
The Role of Public Health in COVID-19 Outbreak
Environmental Health
Introduction to Behaviour and Mental Health
Digital Health
Obesity
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| Course Assessment | Course work (20% x 5) (100%) | ||
| The above course information is subject to change and approval. | |||
| Last updated on 16 May 2023 | |||