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Dietary essentiality of carbohydrate and lipids; Concept and biological value of proteins; Physiological function and biochemical mechanism of action of vitamins and inorganic nutrients; Metabolic interaction of nutrients; Proximate composition of foodstuff; estimation of fibre; additives; vitamins; trace minerals and amino acids; Food sensitivity and toxicology; Biochemical assessment of nutritional status; Adaptive response to undernutrition; Alcohol; sugar and fibre nutrition; protein energy malnutrition (PEM); Micronutrients deficiency diseases

Principles of Nutritional Epidemiology, Reviews of Assessment methods for Populations and Individuals. Diets/Disease Relationships, Correction of Measurement Errors in Nutritional Study, Nutrition Survey & Research Methods in Nutrition, Measures of Association, Inferential Nutritional Epidemiology & Statistics, Multiple determinants of Diseases, Nutritional Surveillance & Notification, Evaluation of Diagnostic and Screening Tests-Specificity, Sensitivity, Validity and Predictive Values, Application of Nutritional Epidemiology to Health care Delivery and Systems Development.

Macroscopic and microscopic studies of metabolic diseases of bone; Protein; mineral and vitamin deficiencies; Disease processes induced by faulty nutrition

Procedural programming and its limitations; Software development methodology: Fundamental design concepts and principles; structured design; testing and debugging strategies; test case design; programming environments; testing and debugging tools; Basic concepts and formal methods of Object Oriented Programming (OOP); Study of the features of a popular Object Oriented Programming Language such as JAVA; Visual Basic and C++; Applications of OOP in systems software development

Object-oriented approach to information system development, particularly in reference to the earlier stages of analysis and design. Importance of modelling, principles of modelling, object- oriented modelling, conceptual model of the Unified Modelling Language (UML), architecture, software development life cycle. The principles and basic concepts of object orientation and the different aspects of object-oriented modelling as represented by the UML technique. Case study of a typical UML-based CASE tool. Lab Work: Practical exercises on different requirements specification and design activities; developing problem statements, SRS documents and Use Case Diagrams; designing UML Activity diagrams, UML Class diagrams and State Chart diagrams; drawing partial layered, logical architecture diagram with UML package diagram notation; Designing Component and Deployment diagrams.

Basic OOP Concepts: Classes, Objects, inheritance, polymorphism, Data Abstraction, Tools for developing, Compiling, interpreting and debugging, Java Programs, Java Syntax and data objects, operators. Central flow constructs, objects and classes programming, Arrays, methods. Exceptions, Applets and the Abstract, OLE, Persistence, Window Toolkit, Laboratory exercises in an OOP Language.

Introduction to general pathology- both organic and non-organic, Changes in inflammation; Suppuration; Abscess formation - effects on tissue; Repair of tissues; Factors upon which rate of repair depends; Degeneration in relation to structures in the ear; Effect of changes in circulation of hearing; Anaemia and hyperaemia; Oedema; formation and drainage of tissue fluid. Mechanism of development of oedema in the inner ear. Spurious, feigned or malingering hearing loss.

Resuscitation in emergencies. Ruptured ectopic gestation. Incomplete miscarriage/abortion. Septic abortion. Post coital vaginal laceration. Bartholins cyst/abscess. Post partum haemorrhage. Ruptured uterus.

Approach to the gynaecological patient in the clinic. Symptoms and clinical signs in gynaecology. History taking in gynaecology. General physical examination. Pelvic examination. Clinic based procedures. Pap smears, high vaginal swabs. Cryosurgery, transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasonography. Diagnostic hysteroscopy, colposcopy, hysterosalpingography.

The course is designed for the undergraduates in public health and others in the health Sciences programs. Overview of the history of occupational health in Nigeria and elsewhere. Attention is focused on selected occupational health problems of the various industries and occupations. Various target organs and systems affected by specific hazards are highlighted. Specific areas relating to health hazards from new environmental pollutants and early detection of impairments. Various legislations concerning safety measures for the workers and the work environments are reviewed. Visits to the various industrial setting and other places of interest to identify specific problems. Disaster and disaster Management. Phases of Disaster Management and risk reduction right from Disaster declaration process. How to conduct annual hazard mitigation risk assessment. How preparation is made for Disaster Management, such as preparation for flood, windstorm, land slide and collapsing of buildings and other Disaster issues as well as emergency response procedures and action plans. Procedures at disaster management centres or site of a disaster. Managing humanitarian crises and those of Response and Recovery after a Disaster.