Dear Students,
Welcome to the Module of Health Measurement and Research
This module intends to equip students with essential knowledge, skills and attitudes in research process, basic statistics applied to health and basis epidemiology principles. This will provide the students with ability to examine and apply evidence based information to guide clinical practice, health promotion and disease prevention.
This module is for year 2 undergraduate general nursing and Midwifery students.
This module will introduce learners to the concept of tropical and communicable diseases. They compromise the human body systems. It also covers: Causative agents, modes of transmission, pathophysiology of the disease, signs and symptoms, investigations, management, epidemiology, and preventive measures.