GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND EPIDEMIC INVESTIGATION/HLS-3090
Course Title: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND EPIDEMIC INVESTIGATION
Credits 3 ECTS 8
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish -
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Listing basic principles of prevention and control of Communicable Diseases,
Defining the infection chain and explaining its components,
Listing air-borne diseases and its control principles,
Listing water and food- borne diseases and their control principles,
Listing sexually transmitted diseases and its control principles,
Listing Zoonoses and their control principles,

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  The epidemiology of communicable diseases
2. Week  Basic Principles of Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases
3. Week  Infection chain
4. Week  Air-borne diseases and their control
5. Week  Water and food- borne diseases and their control
6. Week  Sexually transmitted diseases and their control
7. Week  Zoonoses and their control
8. Week  Control of diseases transmitted thorough vectors and parasitic infections
9. Week  Control of diseases transmitted by blood and blood products
10. Week  Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
11. Week  Outbreak investigation and outbreak management
12. Week  Surveillance and notification of communicable diseases
13. Week  Vaccine-preventable diseases, Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
14. Week  Vaccines and cold-chain applications
15. Week  International and National Vaccination Programmes,New vaccines and the addition of new vaccines to the national program
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
0
0
 Assignment
3
20
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
15
3
45
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
15
3
45
 Searching in Internet and Library
15
3
45
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
0
 Preparing a Presentation
12
4
48
 Presentation
12
2
24
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
0
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
0
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
207
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
8.28
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
8
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Dr. F. Nur Baran Aksakal)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ()
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (nuraksakal@gmail.com)