Public Health and Preventive Medicine (MD710)
A Course for the Undergraduate Clinical Pharmacy Program

(Fall Semester – 2014)

News & Announcements:

• Mon 8 Dec 2014
• Important-for Group AThis week's Public Health lecture will be on Wednesday at 12:30 (Mansour Khalifa) while the Pharmaceutical Biotechnology lecture (PM703) will be on Thursday 10 AM, Lecture hall D. Those of you who are not registered in both courses need to pay special attention to that swap.
• Projects will be discussed (not finally submitted) during the last lecture for each group. Please make sure one representative of each project team is attending. This should be a brief overview of each project.



• Mon 3 Nov 2014
Group projects are now announced. Please find your assigned project here and start working on it in teams. Be creative!


• Fri 31 Oct 2014
The first quiz will be in the Pharmaceutical Microbiology labs, on Monday 10 November 2014.
Please find the list of terms that may be part of the quiz, as well as an example of the question format.
Good luck!


• Mon 13 Oct 2014
Please use the following e-mail address for any correspondence related to the course:

Resources:

• Demonstration on using the E-learning website

• NEW! Egypt Health Statistics (From WHO)

Online Material & Links:

• E-Learning Site (Contains course material and assignments).
  This site requires registration, and all students taking the course will be pre-registered and enrolled by the second week of the semester.
• Public Health Blog (Contains links, resources, and videos related to the course material)

Teaching Team:

• Dr. Ramy Karam Aziz (course coordinator)
• Dr. Aymen Samir Yassin
• Dr. Omneya Helmy

Course Content:

• Introduction
  • Health   
  • Public Health   
  • Mission of Public Health  
  • Health Status  
     
• Chapter I: Epidemiology
  • A. Terms and Definitions 
  • B. Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases  
  • C. Epidemiology of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) 
    • I- Cardiovascular Diseases
    • II- Renal Failure 
    • III- Diabetes Mellitus
    • IV- Cancer 
    • V- Other Non Communicable Diseases
       
• Chapter II: Major Topics in Public Health
  • A. Family Health  
  • B. School Health  
  • C. Mental Heath   
  • D. Occupational Health  
  • E. Environmental Health  
  • F. Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections   
     
• Chapter III: Microbiology of food, water, and waste
  • A. Food Microbiology 
  • B. Water and Water Supplies 
  • C. Wastewater or Sewage  
  • D. Disposal of Dry Refuse 
     
• Chapter IV: Nutrition
  • Importance of Nutrition  
  • Nutritive Value of Important Foods