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Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready?

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Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready?
  1. What is the course about?
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What is the course about?

Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready?
The course Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready? is an online class provided by Griffith University through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Explore the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and how we can respond to them effectively.

Course description
  • Learn how to contain disease and fight future pandemics
  • 2 weeks
  • Plagues may seem like an occurrence of the past, but outbreaks of infectious disease exist all over the world today. This online course will look at the current and emerging threat of global health pandemics and our response to them.
  • You’ll explore the science of infection and the spread of infectious diseases, identifying how microorganisms spread and manifest in the body. You’ll discover the challenges that re-emerging epidemics and bacterial resistance pose to disease prevention in diverse communities. And you’ll determine how to contain disease effectively and prevent future pandemics.
  • This course is part of our Study with Australia collection, with free upgrades and digital certificates supported by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission until 30 June, 2020. Explore more courses from leading Australian education providers.
  • The science of infection and disease and the distinction between the two. Not all infections cause disease and not all diseases may be due to infection.
  • Microorganisms: how they spread, and how they manifest in the body to cause disease.
  • Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: emerging infections are those that have newly appeared in a population whereas re-emerging infections are those that existed in the past (SARS, EBOLA) but have reappeared.
  • A discussion of bacterial resistance, how bacteria evolve to become resistant to things that are meant to kill them.
  • Contemporary communicable diseases and healthcare-associated infections at a global, regional, national and local level.
  • Outbreak responses, identifying and breaking the chain of infection through good hygiene and standard precautions.
  • You have a role to play: practical containment and prevention strategies.
  • Explain the science of infection and infectious diseases
  • Describe emerging and re-emerging diseases
  • Identify the various challenges in the prevention of infectious diseases in diverse healthcare and community settings
  • Discuss the basic principles of effective containment and prevention of infectious diseases
  • This course is designed for healthcare workers, particularly student healthcare workers, student nurses, policy makers and dentists.
  • Griffith University
  • Griffith University was created to be a different kind of university—challenging conventions, responding to trends and pioneering solutions through innovative teaching and research.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready?

Course Topic

Disease Outbreak Prevention, Healthcare & Medicine

University, College, Institution

Griffith University

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics: Are You Ready?

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Griffith University you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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