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Disease Screening in Public Health

Current and future public health is characterized by the increase of chronic and degenerative diseases, corresponding to the worldwide ageing of the population. The increasing prevalence of these conditions together with the long incubation period of the chronic diseases and the continual technological innovations, offer new opportunities to develop strategies for early diagnosis. Public Health has an important mandate to critically assess the promises and the pitfalls of disease screening strategies. This MOOC will help you understand important concepts for screening programs that will be explored through a series of examples that are the most relevant to public health today. We will conclude with expert interviews that explore future topics that will be important for screening. By the end of this MOOC, students should have the competency needed to be involved in the scientific field of screening, and understand the public health perspective in screening programs. This MOOC has been designed by the University of Geneva and the University of Lausanne. This MOOC has been prepared under the auspices of the Ecole romande de santé publique (www.ersp.ch) by Prof. Fred Paccaud, MD, MSc, Head of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Lausanne (www.iumsp.ch), in collaboration with Professor Antoine Flahault, MD, PhD, head of the Institute of Global Health, Geneva (https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/en/) and Prof. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant (McGill University, Quebec/ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne).

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Rating 4.0 based on 17 ratings
Length 9 weeks
Effort 7 weeks of study, 1-3 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Geneva, University of Lausanne via Coursera
Instructors Antoine Flahault, Fred Paccaud (In Partnership with UNIGE), Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant
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Language English
Subjects Science
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1-What are the different study designs that may be used for evaluation of screening programs?2-What are the important biases and controversies associated with screening?What are the different key resources needed for planning a screening program?What are the characteristics of the decision-making framework used for screening programs.

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4-Do you know any examples where screening programs have been stopped?In addition to the examples of future topics in public health screening, can you can think of other topics that would be important?5- Can you describe how you see these topics developing in the future?

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Comprehensive overview of disease screenings for clinicians as well as public health professionals Very interesting course but work needs to done on the language component which was sometimes very confusing.

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Public Health Scholar $58k

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Public Health Administrator 3 $68k

Public Health Specialist 3 $69k

Public Health Department $71k

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Rating 4.0 based on 17 ratings
Length 9 weeks
Effort 7 weeks of study, 1-3 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Geneva, University of Lausanne via Coursera
Instructors Antoine Flahault, Fred Paccaud (In Partnership with UNIGE), Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Science
Tags Life Sciences Medicine And Healthcare Public Health

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