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Global Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease:

What makes us ill, what makes us die, and why

Module overview

This module provides students with a broad overview of the state of the world’s health today. ÌýWe explore how health and disease differ across the countries and regions of the world, why inequalities are so stark, and how are they changing over time.Ìý We also address the challenges of improving health status and reducing the burden of disease across populations, especially the most vulnerable, through innovative and affordable approaches, appropriate to the setting.Ìý

You will learn how to use different sources of information to explore the epidemiology of the burden of disease globally. There will be a focus on key risk factors and proximal and distal determinants of disease. These include the social, political and economic determinants of disease. You will gain insight into the difficulties in obtaining accurate information about disease burden, especially in low-income countries. We will introduce the double burden of communicable and non-communicable disease, disease prevention and control, as well as the challenges of changing disease patterns and multimorbidity onÌýhealth systems and healthcare delivery.Ìý

At the end of this module, students should be able to:

1. Understand basic epidemiological methods and their application to the measurement of globalÌýdisease burden.
2. Describe the key concepts and challenges to disease control.
3. Understand the changing patterns of infectious disease burden across the world today.
4. Describe the challenges that the increase in key diseases pose for populations and health systems.
5. Understand the impact of the classic 'tropical diseases' and neglected tropical diseases.
6. Describe the impact of urbanisation, demographic and climate changes on disease

This module is optional to students on the iBSc in Global Health and is also available to undergraduate students from other programmes/faculties upon agreement with the iBSc programme lead.