Public Health Technology
National Diploma (ND) in Public Health Technology
Overview
The National Diploma Programme in Public Health Technology is designed to provide basic academic and professional training required to assist in achieving Public Health at the community level.
Programme goal: To provide basic academic and professional training required to assist in achieving Public Health at the community level.
What graduates can do
- Acquire basic skills in Public Health
- Carry out community diagnosis and mobilization
- Conduct Health Education and promotion in the community
- Collect, analyse and present health data
- Assist in sensitizing and counseling community members to actively participate in Public Health programmes
- Participate in preventive and promotive health care service delivery
Programme structure
Two (2) years (four semesters) of classroom work, laboratory and field practicum. Each semester lasts 17–18 weeks: 15 contact weeks of teaching and 2–3 weeks for registration, continuous assessment and examinations. The programme incorporates 3–4 months of SIWES at the end of the second semester of the second year.
Practical training
Curriculum
| Code | Course title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| COM 111 | Introduction to Computer Science | 3 |
| DTH 115 | Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology | 3 |
| GLT 111 | General Laboratory Technique | 3 |
| GNS 127 | Citizenship Education 1 | 2 |
| GNS 230 | General Biology | 2 |
| GST 101 | Use of English | 2 |
| MTH 101 | General Mathematics | 3 |
| PHS 111 | Introduction to Pharmacology and Therapeutics | 2 |
| PHT 111 | Introduction to Public Health | 3 |
| PHT 112 | Immunology and Immunization | 3 |
| STA 101 | Introduction to Statistics | 2 |
| Code | Course title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| CHO 136 | Introduction to Mental Health | 2 |
| EED 126 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship Education | 2 |
| EHT 111 | Introduction to Environmental Health | 3 |
| EHT 125 | Public Health Nutrition | 3 |
| EHT 212 | Introduction to Epidemiology | 2 |
| GNS 112 | Introduction to General Chemistry | 3 |
| GNS 213 | Introduction to Medical Sociology | 2 |
| PHT 121 | Introduction to Health Education and Promotion | 3 |
| PHT 122 | Introduction to Biostatistics | 3 |
| PHT 124 | Substance Use and Abuse | 2 |
| PHT 126 | Introduction to Demography | 2 |
| Code | Course title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| EED 216 | Practice of Entrepreneurship | 2 |
| GNS 218 | Research Methodology | 2 |
| PHT 201 | Introduction to Community Health | 2 |
| PHT 211 | Introduction to Communicable and Non Communicable Disease | 3 |
| PHT 212 | Primary Health Care | 3 |
| PHT 213 | Introduction to Emergency Response | 2 |
| PHT 214 | Maternal and Child Health | 3 |
| PHT 216 | Seminar in Public Health | 2 |
| STB 211 | Introduction to Microbiology and Parasitology | 3 |
| Code | Course title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| EHT 211 | Introduction to Public Health Pest Management | 3 |
| EHT 223 | Public/Environmental Health Laws | 3 |
| EHT 315 | Health Economics | 2 |
| PHT 221 | Public Health Planning and Management | 3 |
| PHT 222 | First Aid | 3 |
| PHT 225 | Global and Contemporary Health Issues | 2 |
| PHT 227 | Project | 6 |
Source: NBTE Curriculum and Course Specification for ND Public Health Technology (March 2021)