Surveillance to measure burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Course Coordinator: Prof. dr. Siswanto Agus Wilopo, SU, MSc, ScD
At the end of the course the student should be able to:
- describe the burden of NCDs (chronic diseases),
- describe the concept and use of NCDs surveillance,
- design surveillance of NCDs
- construct instrument of data collection,
- estimate of epidemiological rates of NCDs,
- collect data morbidity and mortality of NCDs,
- calculate burden of NCDs measures (i.e.: DALY), and
- evaluate data quality, and
- use of epidemiology data for measuring burden of NCDs.