Public Health

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:8.00

Study Course Accepted:28.08.2023 16:01:13

Study Course Information
Course Code:		SVUEK_084		LQF level:		Level 6
Credit Points:		4.00		ECTS:		6.00
Branch of Science:		Clinical Medicine; Public Health		Target Audience:		Public Health
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Lauma Spriņģe
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Department of Public Health and Epidemiology
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Riga, 9 Kronvalda boulevard, svekrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67338307
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		2	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		4
Classes (count)		15	Class Length (academic hours)		4	Total Contact Hours of Classes		60
Total Contact Hours								64
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Basics of public health.
Objective:
The aim of the study course is to form students' understanding and to promote the acquisition of knowledge about the diversity of public health issues. To acquaint with methods of cognition of public health problems and their use in identification, control and reduction of public health problems.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	Evidence-based public health			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
2	Health statistics. Public health surveillance			Classes		1.00	auditorium
3	Prevention			Classes		1.00	auditorium
4	Measurements of population health			Classes		1.00	auditorium
5	Non-communicable diseases			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
6	Cardiovascular diseases			Classes		1.00	auditorium
7	Ageing. Diabetes			Classes		1.00	auditorium
8	Oncology			Classes		1.00	auditorium
9	Chronic respiratory diseases			Classes		1.00	auditorium
10	Mental health			Classes		1.00	auditorium
11	Child and adolescent healh			Classes		1.00	auditorium
12	Mother and child health			Classes		1.00	auditorium
13	Injuries and external causes of death			Classes		1.00	auditorium
14	Violence			Classes		1.00	auditorium
15	Addictions			Classes		1.00	auditorium
16	Infectious diseases			Classes		1.00	auditorium
17	Global aspects of infectious diseases			Classes		1.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Situation analysis, compilation of statistical data with analysis, preparation and presentation of presentations. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
Assessment Criteria:
Work in small groups with presentations, situation analysis, written essays, statistical data summaries with analysis, and written exam. 1. Class attendance, and group work - mandatory. 2. Development of independent work on prevention - 50%. 3. Exam - 50%.
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam (Written)
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		Name methods for identifying and analyzing public health problems; to list the main public health problems and their causes; outline solutions to problems.
Skills:		Select public health information; to calculate basic demographic and disease incidence indicators; to prepare and present an analysis of a specific public health problem.
Competencies:		Critically and comparatively evaluate the public health situation using information sources characterizing public health; to substantiate tasks in solving public health problems; to plan the activities of a public health specialist in a specific situation.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
Required Reading
1	Baltiņš, Māris. Lietišķā epidemioloģija. Zinātne, 2003. (akceptējams izdevums)
2	Gillam, S., Yates, J. Padmanabhan Badrinath. Essential Public Health. Theory and Practice. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press. 2012. (akceptējams izdevums)
Other Information Sources
1	CDC, PVO datu bāzes un publikācijas www.cdc.gov; www.who.int
2	Global Health Observatory (GHO) publikācijas www.who.int/gho/publications/en/index.html; Eiropas slimību profilakses un kontroles centra dati un publikācijas http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx;