400840 Communicable Diseases (Online) Spring 2020
Unit Details
Unit Code: | 400840 |
Unit Name: | Communicable Diseases |
1 About Communicable Diseases2 Assessment Information2.1 Unit Learning Outcomes
This unit makes a contribution to the following specific course-level graduate attributes: 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, and 14.
Outcome | |
1 | Describe the major communicable causes of disease burden, in Australia and internationally, their routes of transmission, risk factors and clinical features |
2 | Discuss how causative agents, host and environmental factors interact to produce illness in individuals, and shape patterns of communicable disease in populations |
3 | Describe epidemiological methods used to investigate outbreaks of communicable diseases |
4 | Describe principles of surveillance, prevention, and control for communicable diseases |
2.5 Assessment Details
2.5.2 Critical Review: review of the literature on an emerging or re-emerging communicable disease threat
Weight: | 60% |
Type of Collaboration: | Individual |
Due: | Week 16, 2 November 2020, 23:00h |
Format: | Essay |
Length: | 3,000 words |
Curriculum Mode: | Critical Review |
Details:
Critical review of the literature on ONE emerging or re-emerging communicable disease threat (choose from list below ); should include role of agent, host and environmental factors, potential policy responses.
– COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2)
Criteria and Standards:
Department of Health and Ageing, the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control.
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