This module teaches in its first part the methods and techniques used to analyze and test the quality of water and food as well as topics covering qualitative and quantitative tests with regard to physicochemical and microbial quality requirements. The second part of the module addresses major problems of nutrition and metabolic/chronic disorders for which nutrition plays a pivotal role including diabetes, obesity, eating disorders, malabsorption, alcohol abuse, and pancreatitis.
The module covers the studies of the language, causation, and mechanisms of diseases with emphasis on the dynamic nature of fundamental disease process on one part, and introduces students to the studies of medical chemistry, immunology and hematology focusing on diagnostic tests used both in the hospital (Lab tests) and in the community pharmacy (glucose, cholesterol and pregnancy testing).