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Social Medicine
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:22.08.2022 12:01:02
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_040 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine | Target Audience: | Medical Services; Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inese Stars | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Public Health and Epidemiology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 9 Kronvalda boulevard, svek rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67338307 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basics of economics, sociology, psychology, physiology, internal diseases, nutrition, public health. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with the opportunity to gain knowledge about social determinants of health; to promote perception about the interrelationship of social environment and health outcomes; to promote the ability to identify the role of social determinants in the formation of various health outcomes and to find possible solutions. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Social medicine: its object and working area, historical development, its topicality nowadays. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Health, illness (disease, sickness) and social environment – interrelated associations between them. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Social economic status (SES) and health – definiton of SES, indicators, measuring, relation to health outcomes and statuses. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Social determinants of health (SDoH): definition, idea, examples. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Deprivation and its relation to health outcomes. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Health related quality of life and its usage in public health. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Nutrition as a social determinant of health. Social factors which influence food choice. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Transportation as a social determinant of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Work and employment as a social determinant of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Housing as a social determinant of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Early child development as a social determinant of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Social support as social determinant of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | In order to understand the idea of social determinants of health and their impact on public health, students read scientific articles about the relationship of these determinants with various health outcomes and discuss what they have read in class. In order to be able to combine theoretical assumptions about social determinants of health and their practical manifestations in public health, students analyze real examples related to health and present the conclusions to the audience. Presentations are intended for students to better learn speaking skills, to learn to formulate and clearly express their opinion, as well as to substantiate it with arguments. The student prepares an extensive analysis of situations (in essay format) in which he analyzes the social determinants of health in his/her life. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Summary of a scientific article, a reasoned essay on associations of some SDoH and health outcomes, participation in group work and presentations, successfully passed written exam. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Define social medicine and describe its scope and interests, name social determinants of health (SDoH) and describe SDoH, recognise SDoH in different examples of health-related behavior. State the history of social medicine and express an opinion about current necessity of social medicine. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Explain SDoH role in the context of some public health problems, evaluate social factor assistance in disease incidence and prevalence, provide examples of social factors influencing different health outcomes, use appropriate terminology. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Evaluate and argue on the role of SDoH in given examples. Formulate and elaborate a problem solving mechanism by using main theoretical and practical concepts of social medicine. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Marmot M., Wilkinson G. (2006) Social Determinants of Health. Oxford University Press. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hellman, C.G. (2000) Culture, Health and Illness. Oxford. | ||||||||
| 2 | Berkman L.F., Kawachi I. (ed.) (2014) Social Epidemiology. Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Graham Scambler (ed.) (2008) Sociology as applied to medicine. 6th ed. Edinburgh: Saunders/Elsevier. | ||||||||
| 4 | Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe (ed.) (2004) The sociology of health and illness: a reader. London; New York: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 5 | Hannah Bradby (2009) Medical sociology: an introduction. London: Sage. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Social Determinants of Health. The Solid Facts. (2003) Second ed. WHO | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/98438/e… | ||||||||
