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      • 1a - Epidemiology
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      • 2a - Epidemiological Paradigms
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      • 2c - Diagnosis and Screening
      • 2d - Genetics
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      • 2g - Communicable Disease
      • 2h - Principles and Practice of Health Promotion
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      • 5a - Understanding Individuals,Teams and their Development
      • 5b - Understanding Organisations, their Functions and Structure
      • 5c - Management and Change
      • 5d - Understanding the Theory and Process of Strategy Development
      • 5e Health and social service quality
      • 5f Finance, Management Accounting and Relevant Theoretical Approaches
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    • Finding and Appraising the Evidence
      • 1. Overall Introduction to Critical Appraisal
      • 2. Finding the Evidence
      • 3. Randomised Control Trials
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    • Learning from Stakeholders
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 – Stakeholder engagement
      • Chapter 2 – Reasons for engaging stakeholders
      • Chapter 3 – Identifying appropriate stakeholders
      • Chapter 4 – Understanding engagement methods
      • Chapter 5 – Using engagement methods, P1
      • Chapter 5 – Using engagement methods, P2
      • Chapter 6 – Analysing the data
      • Chapter 7 - Monitoring engagement
      • Chapter 8 - Evaluating engagement
      • Chapter 9 - Understanding the lessons learned
    • Obesity Care Pathway Support Package
      • Introduction
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      • Development
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    • Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 - Introduction to PBMA
      • Chapter 2 - Endorsements & Evidence
      • Chapter 3 - World Class Commissioning
      • Chapter 4 - Marginal Analysis in Action
      • Chapter 5 - Mental Health Example
      • Chapter 6 - Diabetes Test Example
      • Chapter 7 - The Challenge
      • Chapter 8 - Programme Budgeting Spreadsheet
      • Chapter 9 - Programme Budgeting Atlas
      • Chapter 10 - NHS Comparators Website
      • Chapter 11 - The Challenge
    • Screening
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 - What screening is and is not
      • Chapter 2 - What screening does
      • Chapter 3 - The screening programme
      • Chapter 4 - Measuring what screening does
      • Chapter 5 - Measures of test performance
      • Chapter 6 - Handling media interviews
      • Chapter 7 - Commissioning quality screening
      • Chapter 8 - Screening prior to evidence
      • Chapter 9 - Interview with Sir Muir Gray
    • Sustainable Healthcare
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1 - What is Climate Change?
      • Chapter 2 - Greening the Health Service
      • Chapter 3 - Changing the Energy of the NHS
      • Chapter 4 - Distributed Health and Service and How to Reduce Travel
      • Chapter 5 - The End of Waste
      • Chapter 6 - Sustainable Clinical Practice
      • Chapter 7 - Public Health Advocacy
      • Chapter 8 - Turning Theory into Action
      • Chapter 9 - Theory into Action
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  1. 2g - Health Protection and Communicable Diseases

Knowledge of natural history, clinical presentation, methods of diagnosis and control of infections of local and international public health importance (including emerging diseases and those with consequences for effective control)

Seee "Infectious Diseases".

‹ Emergency Preparedness and Response to natural and man-made disasters up Organisation of infection control ›

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  • Definitions including: incubation, communicability and latent period; susceptibility, immunity, and herd immunity
  • Use and evaluation of national and international surveillance
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  • The design, evaluation, and management of immunisation programmes
  • Choices in developing an immunisation strategy
  • The steps in outbreak investigation including the use of relevant epidemiological methods
  • Knowledge of natural history, clinical presentation, methods of diagnosis and control of infections of local and international public health importance (including emerging diseases and those with consequences for effective control)
  • Organisation of infection control
  • A basic understanding of the biological basis, strengths and weaknesses of routine and reference microbiological techniques
  • International aspects of communicable disease control including port health
  • Communicable Disease Control Frameworks

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