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HEP 221 Disease Prevention and Control in Health Education

ND2 levelMedical & Health Sciences24 topics

HEP 221 covers 24 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concept of disease and disease prevention
  2. Stages of disease prevention
  3. Communicable diseases
  4. Non-communicable diseases
  5. Disease control methods
  6. Epidemiological patterns of disease occurrence
  7. Emerging and re-emerging diseases
  8. Disease transmission cycle
  9. Modes of transmission of communicable diseases
  10. Immunity and types of immunity
  11. Immunization, cold chain and national schedule
  12. Disease control measures and outbreak risk assessment
  13. Disease surveillance methods and reporting systems
  14. Disease outbreak control methods
  15. Reporting of communicable diseases
  16. National immunization schedule
  17. Tracking immunization defaulters
  18. Cold chain equipment
  19. Use of cold chain equipment
  20. Vaccine potency monitoring
  21. Reservoir and transmission control
  22. Disease outbreak risk assessment
  23. Disease surveillance methods
  24. Routine reporting

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Concept of disease and disease prevention

The concept of disease and disease prevention focuses on understanding what constitutes a disease, the various types of diseases (infectious, non‑communicable, genetic, environmental), and the principles of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary).

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