关于此课程： 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. The Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney is a unique interdisciplinary education and research hub which seeks solutions to chronic disease through a complex systems approach. Academics in many disciplines (in Science and Medicine, but also in Architecture, Humanities, Law etc) work in a collaborative fashion to produce novel solutions to the problems of chronic disease. All contributors and participants in this course are members of the Charles Perkins Centre and will speak from the unique interdisciplinary perspective that this Centre affords. The course will describe a complex systems approach as the most productive way to ease the burden of chronic disease. It then describes these diseases in detail, their risk factors, and the environmental and biological factors that have led to the current epidemic of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Finally, the solutions – and more importantly the process for finding solutions- is the subject of the last module. No one approach by itself can ever be the answer, and certainly not a simple diet and exercise approach. The entire course consists of 5 content modules, plus an extra module for completing assignments and discussions, and takes about 6 weeks to complete. Completion certificates are issued on the basis of participation in all 6 modules. What you'll learn: - How the Charles Perkins Centre recruits interdisciplinary teams to ease the burden of chronic disease - How a complex systems approach is necessary to provide solutions to a complex problem - The fundamentals of chronic disease research and where it is heading - The biggest risk factors for chronic disease and their global incidence - The biological, genetic, social, regulatory, and other influences that have inflated these risk factors - How to provide solutions globally for the reduction of chronic disease
此课程适用人群： Anyone who is concerned about the growing global epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases in developed and developing countries can participate in this course. This includes health professionals, policy makers, scientists, lawyers and any member of the general public interested in learning about the complex system of interactions between our basic biology and genetic inheritance, and our rapidly changing environment, that all contribute to the increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases.
制作方： The University of Sydney
教学方： Stephen Simpson, Academic Director and Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Charles Perkins Centre
| 级别 | Beginner |
| 语言 | English |
| 如何通过 | 通过所有计分作业以完成课程。 |
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第 1 周
Module 1 – Setting the Scene
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.
5 个视频, 5 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- 阅读: Module 1 Reading list
- 视频: Understanding NCDs
- 视频: How can a multidisciplinary approach solve complex societal problems?
- 视频: Solutions
- 视频: Module 1 Summary
- 阅读: Preparation for Assignment 1
- 练习测验: Module 1
- 阅读: A note on the weekly discussion topics...
- 讨论提示: Rise in NCDs
- 讨论提示: Complex systems
- 阅读: The presenters
- 阅读: Contributors
第 2 周
Module 2 - The Big Non-Communicable Diseases
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.
9 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- 阅读: Module 2 Reading list
- 视频: Cardiovascular disease
- 视频: Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
- 视频: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- 视频: Diabetes Part 1
- 视频: Diabetes Part 2
- 视频: Obesity
- 视频: Cancer
- 视频: Module 2 Summary
- 练习测验: Module 2
- 讨论提示: Socio-economic status and non-communicable diseases worldwide
- 讨论提示: Diabetes
- 讨论提示: Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
第 3 周
Module 3 - The key risk factors for chronic disease
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.
8 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- 阅读: Module 3 Reading list
- 视频: Physical activity
- 视频: Diet
- 视频: Tobacco
- 视频: Alcohol
- 视频: Sleep apnoea
- 视频: Oral health
- 视频: Module 3 Summary
- 练习测验: Module 3
- 讨论提示: Physical activity and nutrition as risk factors for non-communicable diseases.
- 讨论提示: The NOURISHING Framework
- 讨论提示: Sleep
- 讨论提示: Oral health in indigenous communities
第 4 周
Module 4 - How did we get here?
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.
7 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- 阅读: Module 4 Reading list
- 视频: Our biology
- 视频: Our food supply
- 视频: Corporate interest
- 视频: Corporate interests and nutrition
- 视频: Our domestic environment
- 视频: Module 4 Summary
- 练习测验: Module 4
- 讨论提示: Domestic environment 1 - walking
- 讨论提示: Domestic environment 2 - transport
- 讨论提示: Corporate interest
已评分: Lifestyle medicine and evolutionary biology
第 5 周
Module 5 - Solutions
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.
5 个视频, 2 个阅读材料
- 阅读: Module 5 Reading list
- 视频: A discussion: Solutions
- 视频: What is one solution?
- 阅读: Some cutting edge views
- 视频: Nutrition systems
- 视频: Precision Medicine
- 讨论提示: Nutrition systems
- 讨论提示: Thoughts on solutions to chronic disease
已评分: Confronting chronic disease in the community
第 6 周
Wrapping up
This module gives you time to complete your final assignment and to reflect on what you have learned in the course.
1 个视频
- 讨论提示: Final thoughts
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The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is one of the world’s leading comprehensive research and teaching universities, consistently ranked in the top 1 percent of universities in the world. In 2015, we were ranked 45 in the QS World University Rankings, and 100 percent of our research was rated at above, or well above, world standard in the Excellence in Research for Australia report.
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