Overview
Key facts
This short course will enable you todevelop an understanding of the principles of health protection including partnership working to deliver health protection within the context of controlling communicable diseases and non-communicable environmental hazards.
University of Birmingham's Health Protection programme will teach you more about this topic.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Describe the distribution, extent and public health impact of key communicable and non-communicable hazards.
- • Describe the basic concepts of communicable and non-communicable disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control.
- • Describe the organisational structures involved in health protection in the UK and surveillance systems for communicable diseases.
- • Understand the key principles of immunisation and management of immunisation programmes.
- • Critically apply the principles and steps involved in the investigation and management of health protection incidents.
- • Critically apply the basic concepts of infection control for health protection.
- • Critically apply the principles of risk assessment, emergency planning and emergency preparedness, and understand the networks involved in the emergency planning process.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Public Health View 236 other Short Courses in Public Health in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Degree entry requirement.
Tuition Fee
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International
2960 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2960 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1130 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1130 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Birmingham
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.