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Public Health
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:21.06.2023 15:59:43
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_095 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Solvita Kļaviņa-Makrecka | ||||||||
| 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) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge in human normal physiology and pathology and/or propaedeutics; basic arithmetics; English reading. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the course is to provide knowledge in the fundamentals of public health, necessary to understand health information and evidence based public health practice. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Health. Public health | Lectures | 0.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Disease prevention. Health promotion | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Social determinants of health | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 0.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Introduction to epidemiology. Disease causation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Basic epidemiologic measures | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Health information | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Main designs of epidemiologic studies | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Home reading material. Calculation of epidemiological measures. 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: | Written test: correctness and validity of the given answers. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course the students will be able to: • define concepts of health, norm and disease; • state tasks of public health and to list the main disciplines; • define a concept of prevention; to describe strategies and levels of disease prevention, including fundamental principles of screening; • define a concept of health promotion and to describe approaches to health promotion; • list the main categories of health determinants in the context of the multi-factorial theory; • define and list social determinants of health; • list basic epidemiological measures; to explain differences and relations between them; • identify sources and methods for collecting health information; to describe their advantages and limitations; • recognize the main types of epidemiological studies. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • interpret the concepts of health and disease in the professional context; • illustrate with examples approaches to health promotion and disease prevention; • demonstrate examples of health determinants, including the social determinants of health; • calculate basic epidemiological measures; • use statistics data bases for health information search. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • debate about public health problems and potential solutions in the professional context; • evaluate a suitability of data sources and indicators for an assessment of the given health problem; • judge about an appropriateness of the study design in regard to the research question. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | M.Baltiņš „Lietišķā epidemioloģija”. „Zinātne”, Rīga, 2003. (izdevums akceptējams) | ||||||||
| 2 | R.Beaglehole, R.Bonita, T.Kjellstrom „Basic Epidemiology”. WHO, Geneva, 2006. (izdevums akceptējams) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | L.Gordis. Gordis Epidemiology, 6th Edition. Elsevier Saunders, 2019 | ||||||||
| 2 | B.B.Gerstman „Epidemiology Kept Simple” (2nd edition). „Wiley-Liss”, New York, 2013 | ||||||||
| 3 | M. Marmot, R.G. Wilkinson (ed.). Social Determinants of Health. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 366 p. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.cdc.gov | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.who.dk | ||||||||
| 3 | http://data.euro.who.int/hfadb/ | ||||||||
| 4 | European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) | ||||||||
| 5 | www.spkc.gov.lv | ||||||||
