MOH Course Description

     
 

 

OH 201 Principles and Methods of Occupational Health. The place and scope of preventive medicine in industry; the relationship of occupation to disease and the place of physiological hygiene in public health.

 

OH 202 Industrial Hygiene Technology. Lectures and laboratory sessions illustrating the principles and methods of recognizing, evaluating, and controlling environmental hazards and air pollution.

 

OH 203 Industrial Toxicology. Entry, action and elimination or detoxification of toxic substances. Design of toxicity experiments, dose and effect relationships.

 

OH 204 Environmental Physiology. Physiological responses of man to various stresses in the environment

 

OH 205 Environmental Pollution. Causes and effects of pollution.

 

OH 206 Workplace Surveys. Survey, analysis and re-commendation regarding health and safety problems in workplaces visited.

 

OH 207 Health Maintenance in the Workplace. Health surveillance, health promotion and maintenance in a workplace.

 

OH 208 Occupational Diseases. Clinical manifestations, differential diagnosis, prevention and treatment.

 

OH 209 Disability Evaluation, Labor Legislation and Forensic Medicine. Elements of disability evaluation, labor laws affecting management, workers, health personnel in industry.  Legal responsibilities of physicians and nurses.

 

OH 210 Workplace Sanitation.  Fundamentals of sanitation in the workplace.

 

OH 211 Industrial Safety. Fundamentals and principles of safety in industry.

 

OH 213 Occupational Lung Diseases. Mechanisms of occupational lung disorders and their control.

 

OH 280 Occupational Health Field Practice. Occupational health practice in the workplace.

 

OH 214 Fundamentals and Principles of Ergonomics. Fundamentals and principles of ergonomics for the development, design and testing of human-machine-environment system for maximum performance and human welfare.

 

OH 214.1 Applied Ergonomics. Development and design of human machine-environment systems.

 

OH 297 Seminars on Occupational Health and Safety.  Discussions on issues and concerns in Occupational Health and Safety.

 

Biostat 201 Fundamentals of Biostatistics I. Collection, presentation and elementary analysis of data.

 

Epi 201 Principles of Epidemiology. Ecology of human diseases and epidemiologic methods.

 

HPAd 201 Principles of Health Administration.  Theoretical framework in planning and managing the health system.

 

HPAd 202 Practice of Health Administration.  Application of planning and management principles to the health system.

 

 

 

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