Unit Code: MED708

Unit Name: Community Medicine

Description: Component 1 Lifestyle diseases and Non Communicable diseases are the commonest causes of morbidity and mortality in most Pacific island countries. There are also many sexual reproductive health and child health issues in the Pacific that needs to be recognised and addressed from the Public Health perspectives. This course is about evidence based prevention, PH management and control of lifestyle diseases & nutrition, occupational medicine & environmental health, sexual reproductive health and child health conditions in the primary care settings. It encompasses the wellness concepts through the womb to tomb approaches, health services management and the PH legislative frameworks. The students will also conduct an OHS audit in a workplace setting with the Environmental health officers . The course has four units. The practical components of the course include clinical attachments to the designated Health centres, Diabetes Hub Centre, Oxfam/Wellness clinic and the HIV Hub Centre in Suva Subdivision where student’s learning and clinical skills will be strengthened and guided by designated clinical supervisors. The students will also conduct an OHS audit in a workplace setting . Component 2 This component is on CDs and Community Health Needs Assessment incorporating the essential components of public health disciplines including epidemiology, critical appraisal, community based research, environmental health and health promotion. The course has three units. The core unit is CDs management in primary care settings. The remaining units cover crosscutting areas with broader scopes on public health surveillance, outbreak management, clinical epidemiology, community health needs identification and community based research projects.

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Prerequisite: MED702, MED705, MED706 & MED707

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 60

Offered In: Semester 1,2