Handbook

This course is offered in two modes: either face to face (on campus) and fully online.

As global populations grow, age and transition away from traditional ways of life, the causes of ill health and death are also changing. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer are now the largest causes of death and disability in nearly all countries today. Therefore, it has become vitally important to ensure that health programs to address chronic diseases are effective at improving and protecting the health of the population so that precious resources and effort is not wasted. Monitoring and evaluation of chronic disease health programs enables us to learn about how we can make improvements in order to improve people's health.

Successful completion of this course will provide students with foundational skills in program evaluation. Students will learn how to plan an evaluation strategy through using a series of chronic disease case studies representing a range of population settings. These case studies have been selected as they represent the main disease burdens currently afflicting global populations.