PHT 211 Introduction to Communicable and Non Communicable Disease

ND2 levelMedical & Health Sciences12 topics

PHT 211 covers 12 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.

Concept of communicable diseases
Modes and types of infection
Vector-borne, zoonotic and surface infections
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
Hospital-acquired infections
Control programmes for communicable diseases
Chain of infection
Surveillance of communicable diseases
Outbreak investigation
Concept and classification of non-communicable diseases
Predisposing factors, prevention and control of NCDs
Major non-communicable diseases and conditions

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Concept of communicable diseases

Communicable diseases are illnesses that can be transmitted from one person or organism to another, directly or indirectly. Mastering their definition, modes of transmission, and examples is essential for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams because many questions test the ability to classify diseases and understand their spread mechanisms.

What you get for PHT 211

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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