NCD Training Modules

Describe the burden of disease of the 4 main NCDs

Describe how risk factors affect the burden of NCDs

Calculate incidence, prevalence and mortality

Apply definitions of DALY and QALY

Identify the following for an NCD problem

• Type of study to conduct
• Sampling methods to use
• Measure of association to calculate for a particular study

Interpret the results of descriptive and analytic studies

Describe data to collect based on the objective of a surveillance system

Identify how to present surveillance data

Interpret surveillance data, including trends and patterns

Identify the key stakeholders and partners with whom to prioritize public health problems

Identify the criteria for prioritizing public health problems

Reach consensus on the two highest priority NCDs on which to focus prevention and control efforts.

Identify whether a noncommunicable disease (NCD) surveillance system is active or passive

Draw a diagram of the flow of data through an NCD surveillance system

Identify possible sources of selection bias and information bias for an NCD surveillance system.

Identify the strengths and limitations of surveillance data sources.

Select and explain the source of data to use.

Describe action items for accomplishing at least three of the WHO objectives from the 2008-2013 Global Strategy Action Plan in your own country

Describe potential barriers to implementing the recommendations and how to overcome them

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Draw a causal diagram to describe a noncommunicable disease (NCD) or risk factor

Use the Community Guide to identify one evidence-based behavioral intervention and one policy, systems and environmental (PSE) intervention to address an NCD or risk factor

For one selected intervention:

• Describe how at least one behavioral theory or model has been applied or used to develop the intervention
• Describe how to adapt the intervention to local culture or
• Describe at least two non-evidence based factors that may impact the intervention

Evaluating Surveillance Systems

Prerequisite courses:

• NCD Data Sources
• NCD Surveillance in Public Health

Plan for evaluating a surveillance system in your country

Assess the attributes, conclusions and recommendations of a sample surveillance system evaluation

Complete the six steps to evaluating a surveillance system

Follow the Field Guidelines to write an evaluation report

Create a PowerPoint presentation

Developing a Protocol

Prerequisite courses:

• NCD Data Sources
• Prioritizing Public Health Problems
• Managing Data (Adv)

Write a proposal that has the following sections:

• background
• justification for the study
• research question or hypothesis
• objectives of a study
• proposed methods
• expected benefit

Assess the quality of a sample protocol

List the information to include in a protocol for a noncommunicable disease (NCD) study you are proposing

Creating an Analysis Plan

Prerequisite courses:

• NCD Burden of Disease
• NCD Surveillance in Public Health

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• Research question(s) and/or hypotheses
• Dataset(s) to be used
• Inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Variables to be used in the main analysis
• Statistical methods and software to be used
• Table shells to prepare for:
  • Univariable analysis
  • Bivariable analysis
  • Calculating measures of association
  • Assessing for confounding and effect measure modification.

Create a data dictionary that includes, at a minimum:

• Variable names;
• Variable descriptions or labels;
• Variable types;
• Response options and allowable values.

Clean the data

• Identify errors, including duplications, missing data, miscodes, and outliers.
• Use statistical software to identify and correct errors.

Conduct and interpret descriptive analysis and analytic epidemiology

Summarize your findings

Prepare a report

Describe the types of economic analyses

List the components of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA)

Use results of CBAs to inform decisions about implementing public health interventions

Calculate the cost-effectiveness ratio and interpret the findings

Plan for a community needs assessment by

• Identifying a community team
• Describing the scope of the assessment
• Listing the questions to ask
• Selecting sites
• Determining data collection methods or sources
• Identifying key informants
• Review and rate data collected from a community needs assessment
• Summarize data by creating sector data grids
• Develop and prioritize strategies for improvement
• Create a community action plan that includes
  • Project period objective
  • Annual objective(s)
  • Activities needed to complete the objectives
  • Persons responsible for completing the activities
  • Estimated completion time

Scope and impact of the health issue

Costs (economic and morbidity/mortality) of the issue

Recommended policy to address the issue

Consequences of implementing the policy, including effectiveness, costs, savings

How the policy option(s) can be implemented

Barriers to implementing the policy and ways to overcome them

Define a health problem

Plan a program to address the health problem

Engaging stakeholders

Describing the program

Focusing the evaluation design

Gathering credible evidence

Justifying conclusions

Ensuring use and sharing lessons learned

Describe the communication message

Identify the target audience

Select the communication channel to use

Describe how the message will be marketed

Using a sample evaluation report of a noncommunicable disease (NCD) surveillance system, identify how the components were described and evaluated

At the end of the training, you will be able to follow CDC’s framework to evaluate a public health program