Course on Tropical Disease Control
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Quantitative Methods for the Evaluation of Tropical Disease Control
16 to 27 March, 1998
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) and the Department
of Public Health, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
BACKGROUND
Decision making on how money can be spent most effectively for the
control of tropical diseases should be supported by a systematic com-
parison of the available control options. Mathematical, quantitative
models are developed to organise the available evidence in a coherent
framework and permit estimation of short term and long term effects.
PROGRAMME
- The public health burden of disease in different parts of the world
and ways to reduce it
- Different types of quantitative models for the evaluation of tropi-
cal disease control and their application
- Different measures of duration and quality of life and how to use
each one appropriately
- Interpretation of the information generated by mathematical models,
including an understanding of their limitations
- Ways in which interventions can affect disease transmission and
disease occurrence both on the short term and on the long term
- Measuring the costs incurred by the individual and the community as
a consequence of disease
- Modelling approaches for specific diseases such as Leprosy, Schis-
tosomiasis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Lymphatic Filariasis.
- Students will learn to work with the user-friendly software
ONCHOSIM, a computer simulation programme for the transmission and
control of Onchocerciasis.
TARGET GROUP
This course is designed for those who are involved in the planning,
management or evaluation of tropical disease control programmes and
those who do research in this area, whether in their own country or
in an international context, and who are interested in the systematic
reasoning which the use of disease control models stimulates. For
students wishing to develop mathematical models themselves, this
course should be considered as a first introduction to the subject.
Participants are assumed to be familiar with basic concepts of epide-
miology and biostatistics. A general familiarity with computers is an
advantage.
FACULTY
Prof. Dik Habbema, Drs. Willem-Jan Meerding, Drs. Bram Meima, Dr.
Gerrit van Oortmarssen, Dr. Anton Plaisier, Dr. Johan Velema (course
co-ordinator), Dr. Sake de Vlas and Drs. Carina van Vliet, who are
all staff members of the Center for Decision Sciences for Tropical
Disease Control, department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rot-
terdam. In addition, guest lecturers from other institutions will
contribute to the course.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information please visit our website:
or contact:
The Admissions Co-ordinator,
The Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences,
Erasmus University Medical School,
PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: + 31-10-408-8288
Fax: + 31-10-436-5933
mailto:NIHES@nihes.fgg.eur.nl
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Dr. Johan P. Velema
Programme Co-ordinator
Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-10-408-7992
Fax: +31-10-436-5933
mailto:velema@mgz.fgg.eur.nl
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