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About Study Course

ECTS:18
Course supervisor:Anita Brila
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health

Objective

To obtain knowledge about:
- public health monitoring and reporting (PHMR), indicators used to monitor public health and diseases subjected to monitoring;
- the role of primary healthcare in ensuring public health;
- healthcare system management principles;
- health promotion policy and practice development principles, applied strategies, political and socio-economic factor of health promotion practice.
- regularities of communication processes.
Occupational health, hygiene of children and teenagers and the risks related thereto.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.During acquisition of the study course a medical resident obtains knowledge about:
- Public health monitoring and reporting (PHMR), indicators used to monitor public health and diseases subjected to monitoring;
- the role of primary healthcare in ensuring public health;
- healthcare system management principles;
- health promotion policy and practice development principles, applied strategies, political and socio-economic factor of health promotion practice;
- regularities of communication processes.
Occupational health, hygiene of children and teenagers and the risks related thereto.

Skills

1.As a result of the study course, the resident will be able to:
- carry out environmental monitoring, surveying objects, evaluating risk factors and their impact on health, developing measures (proposals) to reduce them;
- perform hygienic expertise of objects and events.

Competence

1.As a result of successful acquisition of the study course a medical resident will develop compulsory competence of a certified public health physician allowing to independently operate in the area of public health.