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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Communicable Disease Control

  • Unit Code

    HST2184

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Jacques de Villiers OOSTHUIZEN

Description

This unit covers a variety of communicable disease of public health significance. Causative agents, disease vectors and modes of transmission are explored in order to devise appropriate environmental health best practice interventions to contain the spread of disease.

Prerequisite Rule

For K97 students: Students must have passed HST1111 and HST1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare the mode of transmission of a range of communicable diseases.
  2. Use current technologies to research and identify emerging communicable disease issues.
  3. Evaluate a range of relevant research literature to guide communicable disease control strategies.
  4. Communicate the importance of communicable disease control to diverse population stakeholders, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to minimise the spread of the disease.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to communicable disease.
  2. Vaccine Preventable Diseases.
  3. Disease surveillance systems.
  4. Emerging communicable diseases (anti-microbial resistance and climate change impacts).
  5. Review of microbiology.
  6. Modes of transmission and groups at risk, with particular reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  7. Zoonotic diseases.
  8. Vector borne diseases.
  9. Parasites and fungal disease.
  10. Food and water borne diseases.
  11. Air borne diseases.
  12. Blood borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignmentliterature review30%
Presentationcase study20%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignmentliterature review 30%
Presentationcase study20%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Communicable Disease Control

  • Unit Code

    HST2184

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Jacques de Villiers OOSTHUIZEN

Description

This unit covers a variety of communicable disease of public health significance. Causative agents, disease vectors and modes of transmission are explored in order to devise appropriate environmental health best practice interventions to contain the spread of disease.

Prerequisite Rule

For K97 students: Students must have passed HST1111 and HST1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare the mode of transmission of a range of communicable diseases.
  2. Use current technologies to research and identify emerging communicable disease issues.
  3. Evaluate a range of relevant research literature to guide communicable disease control strategies.
  4. Communicate the importance of communicable disease control to diverse population stakeholders, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to minimise the spread of the disease.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to communicable disease.
  2. Vaccine Preventable Diseases.
  3. Disease surveillance systems.
  4. Emerging communicable diseases (anti-microbial resistance and climate change impacts).
  5. Review of microbiology.
  6. Modes of transmission and groups at risk, with particular reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  7. Zoonotic diseases.
  8. Vector borne diseases.
  9. Parasites and fungal disease.
  10. Food and water borne diseases.
  11. Air borne diseases.
  12. Blood borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignmentliterature review30%
Presentationcase study20%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Assignmentliterature review 30%
Presentationcase study20%
ExaminationEnd of semester exam50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Heymann, DL. (2015). Control of communicable diseases manual : an official report of the American Public Health Association. (20th ed.). Washington: American Public Health Association. Retrieved from http://linker2.worldcat.org/?jHome=http%3A%2F%2Fezproxy.ecu.edu.au%2Flogin%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fccdm.aphapublications.org%2Ftopics&linktype=best

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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