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Review List Lecture Topics 1. Cancer Epidemiology- common cancers, their risk factors and screening tests- 2. Climate change and its effect on human health- remember to relate this to water borne and water washed diseases 3. Common hospital related infections 4. Definitions of Key T...

Review List Lecture Topics 1. Cancer Epidemiology- common cancers, their risk factors and screening tests- 2. Climate change and its effect on human health- remember to relate this to water borne and water washed diseases 3. Common hospital related infections 4. Definitions of Key Terms- Public Health, Demography, Epidemiology (pay attention to details) 5. Disaster management including risk assessment, disaster response, disaster response planning, mass causalty incidents 6. Food borne illnesses including food intoxication 7. Contemporary Globalization- (review the sub areas covered e.g. the food industry tobacco etc.) 8. Housing and Health 9. Infectious disease risk and management including universal and standard precautions 10. Occupational Health and Safety including the Health and Safety act of Barbados-Dr Morris 11. Poverty including poverty and health 12. Social Determinants of Health Human Development Indices 13. Stages of Epidemiologic transitions 14. NCDs and their common risk factors including obesity 15. Toxins and Pollutants (including populations at risk and signs and symptoms associated with toxic events). Important toxins include Benzene, Radon, Asbestos, Lead, Mercury- and Organophosphates, Arsenic, Carbon monoxide 16. Vectors and Vector Borne illnesses (Review key terminology e.g. vector, host, pathogen as well common vectors, the pathogens they transmit and the resultant diseases) 17. Water-related diseases, Water and Environmental Sanitation (including landfill design and the role of environmental health officers) 18. Sanitation and Waste Disposal- including types of waste and landfill design