Title:	Health Promotion and Disease Control Strategies (HPDCS)
Keywords:	Communicable diseases Disease prevention, control and elimination Non-communicable diseases
Country:	Netherlands
Institution:	The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
Course coordinator:	M. Abdelwahab
Date start:	2025-04-14
Date end:	2025-05-01
About duration and dates:	Duration of the course is 2.5 weeks full time learning. Application deadline is 2 months before the start date of the course. If space is available and no visa required, students can apply until 4 weeks prior to the first course day.
Classification:	advanced optional
Mode of delivery:	Face to face
Course location: KIT Institute PO Box 95001, 1090 HA Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-20-5688256 Website: www.kit.nl
ECTS credit points:	3 ECTS credits
SIT: 84 SIT 30 hours (including 3 hours field visit), Self-study hours: 54 hours (including 4 hrs through self-paced e-learning, assignment time, and readings)
Language:	English
Description: At the end of this course participants will be able to: ● compare and contrast the approaches to the health promotion and control of communicable diseases (CDs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) ● analyse and critically discuss strengths and weaknesses of health system strategies to health promotion and control with a special focus on health equity ● use evidence to formulate and clearly communicate context-appropriate strategies to health promotion or control of a specific health issue or disease
Assessment Procedures: This module has 1 assessment and 1 requirement. Students need to pass the advocacy assignment (minimum score 6/10) to pass the course. A. Advocacy assignment (100%) ● Topic: Participants should write an advocacy assignment on a specific communicable or non communicable disease topic, addressing a specific marginalised group (LO1, LO2, and LO3). It is an individually written assignment that students work on during self-study hours. ● Length: 1,500 words ( + 10%) ● Students receive a personal feedback sheet for the advocacy assignment. ● A feedback session after grade release will be held for general feedback on the assignment, within 2 weeks after receiving grade. ● The passing grade is 6. ● Those students who fail can re-sit advocacy assignment on a specified date within 6 weeks after the grade was received. ● A standard plagiarism check will be done by the Ouriginal software. B. Peer feedback (requirement) ● There will be one round of peer feedback, in which students give feedback on two of their peers’ draft advocacy assignments ● Peer feedback drafts need to be uploaded online at specifically indicated times so as to allow peers to use their feedback. ● The peer feedback needs to meet minimum standards. ● No re-sit options are offered for the peer feedback. but students who don’t meet requirements are warned and get a chance to adapt during the course
Content: The following subjects are reviewed during the course: Health Promotion and Integrated Healthcare: 1. Introduction to Health Promotion and Control Strategies 2. People Centred and Integrated Healthcare Public Health strategies and approaches 3. Holistic health approaches: Planetary health and one health 4. Nutrition: lifecycle approach, influence transition on policy making 5. Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases lifestyle and behaviour change 6. Health system approaches for Water Sanitation and Hygiene and control of vector borne diseases Health system leadership and coordination 7. Public Health Leadership and Governance, Collaboration and cooperation across sectoral and transdisciplinary approaches: Health in all policies 8. Activism, Advocacy, and community mobilisation: two case studies climate change and health and gaining public trust for vaccine hesitancy 9. Health system innovation, big data and digital Health Public Health Emergencies and Humanitarian Health 10. Public health emergencies preparedness and response 11. Humanitarian health interventions: rational priority setting, planning for subpopulations, human rights perspectives Global Health and Ethics 12. Global Health and commercial determinants of health ethics: (Journal Club)
Methods: Learning methods A variety of learning methods are used, most importantly: ● Interactive lectures reflecting on students’ own experiences, (One-two hours lectures, one Q&A) ● Self-paced E-learning units (two, each one is two hours) ● Case studies (in class) ● Field visit (3 hours) ● Peer feedback ● Group work and discussions (in class) ● Background reading materials, ● Individual work on the assignment
Prerequisites: ● Bachelor’s degree or equivalent academic training in either medicine or another field related to health care, such as health sciences, health economics, social sciences, or nursing ● A minimum of three years of health-related work experience in health systems, not limited to (organisation of) individual patient care ● English proficiency at the level of TOEFL 5.5 or IELTS 6.5 (certificate is not required) ● Computer and internet literacy; the participant should be able to use a computer access to wifi networks, and working-level understanding of Microsoft Office software (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe (PDF). Students will be introduced to the e-learning platform.
Attendance: Maximum 30 students; the number of tropEd students is not limited.
Selection: First come, first served
Fees: € 1,980 (tropEd € 1,782) € 1,584 (early bird when you pay more than 3 months before the course starts)
Scholarships: There are no current specific scholarships for this course, for latest updates see
tropEd accreditation: Accredited in EC telco in July 2024. This accreditation is valid until July 2029
Date Of Record Creation:	2024-07-19 03:34:13 (W3C-DTF)
Date Of Record Release:	2024-07-19 08:45:55 (W3C-DTF)
Date Record Checked:	2024-07-19 (W3C-DTF)
Date Last Modified:	2024-07-19 08:45:55 (W3C-DTF)