2022 Semester 2 Prevention and Control of Diseases (EVH-507)

This course is designed to provide students with training students in the preparation and presentation of information on diseases at a level required for application in the communities while working with other public health workers. The course will enable students to acquire basic skills in identifying the disease and applying various intervention methods to prevent infections to people and animal and also to decrease morbidity and mortality of some common communicable and non-communicable diseases. In identifying diseases, students should have at least some skills in arriving at probable diagnosis by relating with signs and symptoms of disease, the causative organism, the host, vectors etc. In terms of NCDs by means of identifying the risk factors and to apply what levels of preventions that are needed in that situations.
Students should also reflect on the physiology and anatomy covered at form seven level and will also grasp an idea of the above with a re-run by the course convenor.