GSPH 331 Introduction to Population and Health
Basic concepts of population growth and socio-economic development, rates and ratios, sources of demographic data, data evaluation, age-sex composition, ideal family size, fertility preference, measures of infant, foetal and perinatal mortality, construction... |
GSPH 329 Hygiene of Food Processing and Handling
Definitions: Food-borne Diseases, Food hygiene, food infection, food intoxication. Principles: Food and nutrition; food-borne diseases: classification of diseases (infection, intoxication), causative agents, transmission mechanisms, manifestation;... |
GSPH 328 Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
Emerging infections in historical context, geographical spread of infections, human demographics and behavior, climate and weather, international travel and commerce, war and famine, technology and industry, microbial adaptation and change, economic... |
GSPH 327 Municipal Sanitary Services and Amenities
Concept of provision of municipal sanitary services and amenities. Elements of municipal services: Public cleansing (streets, drains, markets, lorry parks, stadia, etc); maintenance of hygienic conditions at waste storage and disposal sites; pest control (... |
GSPH 326 Global Climate Change and Health Effects
Variety of effects associated with climate change in different regions on health, malaria, contamination of water bodies, pollution adaptations of human communities to climatic change. |
GSPH 325 Environmental Quality and Sanitary Inspection
Concepts of environmental quality (hygiene);Practice at community level (prevention of contamination of land, premises and infrastructures and pollution of water infrastructures (roads, drainage systems, parks, etc.) and the pollution of water bodies (beaches... |
GSPH 324 Public Health Seminar I
Global public health diseases affecting developing countries; control measures in place for global public health diseases affecting developing countries. |
GSPH 323 Non-Communicable Diseases
Definitions, Types of non-communicable diseases and the burdens especially those relevant to Ghana. Risk factors and their management and strategies for prevention and control. Non-communicable diseases; cancer registers and other registers used in disease... |
GSPH 322 Research Methods II 2 Credits
The course will introduce proposal writing from formulation of research questions, research objectives, design of the study, data collection, analysis, discussion and presentation of results. Principle of ethical conduct of research, Grant writing and... |
GSPH 321 Zoonotic Infections
The burden of zoonotic diseases, prevalence and control of zoonotic diseases, surveillance and control of emerging and re-emerging diseases and the challenge of veterinary public health, global trends in emerging infectious diseases, wildlife and... |