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Public Health
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:27.01.2021 16:32:25
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_098 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inese Gobiņa | ||||||||
| 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: | Basic knowledge in human physiology and propedeutics, basic arithmetics and English reading. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide knowledge in the main concepts of public health for increasing understanding in health information and evidence based public health practice. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Public Health | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Health Definition and Health Dimensions | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Social determinants of health | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Crude, specific and standardized rates | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Basic epidemiologic measures | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Social determinants of health | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Health care management | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Epidemiological study designs and biases | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Measures of association | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Diagnostic tests | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Identification of study designs, exercises on epidemiological measures, association measures, and diagnostic tests. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in classes (40%) Timely submission of independent works with at least 50% score of correct answers (30%) The score of correct answers in the standardized final test (30%) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • define concepts of health, public health; • define concepts of disease prevention and health promotion in relation to social work; • list the fundamental principles of disease screening; • list the main demographic indicators and explain relationship between demography and public health; • describe theories in social medicine and to list social determinants of health; • explain the meaning of evidence-based public health; • identify sources and methods for collecting health information; to describe their advantages and limitations; • list and describe epidemiological study designs, and to identify factors which may affect validity of epidemiological studies; • list and describe fundamental issues of health care organisation and financing. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • interpret the concepts of health and disease in the professional context; • demonstrate determinants of health with examples, including the social determinants of health; • calculate basic epidemiological measures; • calculate and interpret the measures of association; • distinguish between crude, specific and standardized rates; • differentiate designs of epidemiological studies; • calculate diagnostic test performance and validity measures; • find relevant health information and critically assess how reliable it is. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • debate about public health problems and potential solutions in the professional context; • evaluate public health problem by using suitable data sources and indicators; • assess correspondence between research question and study design. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | E-studijās norādītie mācību materiāli "IZLASĪT" | ||||||||
| 2 | M.Baltiņš „Lietišķā epidemioloģija”. „Zinātne”, Rīga, 2003. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | R.Beaglehole, R.Bonita, T.Kjellstrom „Basic Epidemiology”. WHO, Geneva, 2000. | ||||||||
| 2 | Veselība 2020: Eiropas stratēģiskais ietvars visos pārvaldes un sabiedrības līmeņos veiktas rīcības atbalstam veselības un labklājības vairošanai. SPKC, 2013; 15 lpp. | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
