|
|
| |
| The department trains doctors who can provide evidence-based primary health care and public health services. Teaching in community medicine is focused on the concepts and research methods in epidemiology, evidence-based health care, prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, occupational medicine, environmental health, and health policy. Teaching in family medicine is centred on the concepts of family medicine, common health problems and their management. With the School of Public Health , members of the department also runs postgraduate diploma programmes and master programmes in public health, epidemiology and biostatistics, family medicine, health promotion and occupational health. Strategic research areas include women’s health, osteoporosis and musculoskeletal disorders, elderly health, school health, smoking, evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine, health education and health promotion, air pollution, occupational health problems cancer epidemiology, sexual health, mental health, health services research and evaluation, and disease mapping. |
|
