Tagum Doctors College, Inc.
Medical Laboratory Science Department
Community and Public Health (Laboratory)
COURSE SYLLABUS
I. Course Code: CPH MLS
II. Credit : 2 units laboratory
III. Course Title: Community and Public Health (Laboratory)
IV. Prerequisites: MLS Prac 1
V. Contact Hours: 6 hours laboratory per week
VI. Placement : 2nd Semester, S.Y 2019-2020
VII. Faculty : Tom Anthony A. Tonguia, RMT
VIII. Course Description:
It deals with the study of the foundations of community health that includes human
ecology, demography and epidemiology. It emphasizes the promotion of community,
public and environmental health.
IX. Course Objectives
1. Discuss the concepts, principles and theories on community organizations,
development and related demography issue.
2. Promote community health.
3. Appreciate the significance of health in the community.
X. Laboratory Lessons and Exercises
1. Introduction to Community and Public Health
2. Introduction to Epidemiology
3. Mass Blood Donation
4. Soil-transmitted helminths
5. Introduction to different tests done in the laboratory
i. Urinalysis
ii. Fecalysis
iii. Hemoglobin determination
iv. Hematocrit determination
v. Blood typing
vi. Blood smearing
6. Community Organizing
7. Occupational health safety hazards
8. Environmental health hazards
9. Applications
i. Planning of the community immersion
ii. Actual immersion in the community
iii. Evaluation of the immersion
XI. Textbook
1. Mckenzie, J. F., Pinger, R. R. and Kotecki, J. E., INTRODUCTION TO
COMMUNITY HEALTH (5th ed). Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury
Massachusetts