Learn more about malaria and the effect it causes on our health. This global health initiative course on malaria awareness will teach you about malaria, its symptoms, risk factors, and how it can be diagnosed, treated, and prevented. Each year approximately 210 million people are infected with malaria, of which approximately 440,000 of those die from the disease. If you're travelling to a location where malaria is common, it's important to learn about the disease before your visit.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195889 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Define the main types of malaria • Describe the lifecycle the parasite that transmits malaria • Describe the causes and symptoms of malaria • Identify complications and risk factors associated with malaria • Describe how malaria is diagnosed and what tests are used • Describe how malaria can be successfully prevented or treated |
| Course Code | 1625 |
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