This course is multidisciplinary in nature, and aims to equip the global audience of interested lay people, people with chronic disease, public health researchers, health clinicians, students, administrators, and researchers to reflect on the overall impact of the burden of chronic disease . It shows how all chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer) are related by a set of common causes, and that such diseases should be tackled, not individually, but as part of a complex system, with interrelated contributing factors. These factors are genetic, environmental, psychological, economic, social, developmental, and media related.
Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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Easing the burden of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Instructor: Stephen Simpson
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There are 6 modules in this course
This module looks at the impact of the increasing incidence globally of non-communicable, or chronic, diseases and how the Charles Perkins Centre is developing a new approach to this complex challenge.
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5 videos5 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts
This module outlines the five major non-communicable diseases, Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cancer, and the many risk factors that they share.
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9 videos1 reading1 assignment3 discussion prompts
In this module we look more closely at the main risk factors for the non-communicable diseases and at the impact our modern environment is having on the global burden of these preventable diseases.
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8 videos1 reading1 assignment4 discussion prompts
This module will provide an overview of the main factors in our biology, our environment, our food production systems, and our human psychology that have made us susceptible to the chronic disease health crisis.
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7 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review3 discussion prompts
In this module we will consider in detail the complex challenges of finding solutions to chronic diseases and how these could be brought together in developing a systems approach to address these major chronic diseases and the threat they pose to individual and population health.
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5 videos2 readings1 peer review2 discussion prompts
This module gives you time to complete your final assignment and to reflect on what you have learned in the course.
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1 video1 discussion prompt
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