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Public Health and Epidemiology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:29.08.2024 11:14:38
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_088 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Basic Sciences of Medicine, including Pharmacy | Target Audience: | Health Management | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inese Gobiņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Institute of Public Health | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, Kronvalda boulevard 9, svek rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67338307 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basics in causal philosophy; Basics in probability theory and mathematical statistics; Prior knowledge of human physiology and basic principles of disease diagnosis; English language. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The study course imparts the knowledge and skills in managerial epidemiology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Epidemiology and health management. Evidence-based medicine and health care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Descriptive epidemiological studies. Confounding | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Cross-sectional studies. Sampling bias. Prevalence | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Case-control studies: recall bias, odds ratio | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Cohort studies: information bias | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Measures for association: relative risks and attributable risk | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Experimental studies. Clinical randomized trials | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Diagnostic tests. Screening | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Mortality. Standartization | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Public health and health management. Morbidity | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Completion of independent tasks and acquaintance with the "must-read" materials in the e-studies. 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: | Cumulative assessment: - Active participation in classes (10%); - Completed and submitted individual work assignments (30%); - Correctness of answers in course final test (60%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | - define epidemiology; - define health; - to list the categories of health determinants; - to name the principles on which the health impact pyramid is based; - formulate principles for the assessment of health-related events and conditions; - to define the concepts of health, disease, illness, and sickness; - classify and describe disease prevention levels; - to formulate disease screening within the secondary disease prevention; - identify the preconditions for disease screening for disease, testing, and treatment; - name the measures of diagnostic tests; - to identify mortality indicators; - formulate the principles of evidence-based medicine; - to classify the main designs of epidemiological studies; - name the measures of the associations; - define the concepts of confounding and bias in research. | ||||||||
| Skills: | - apply the concepts used in epidemiology accordingly; - differentiate interventions within the health impact pyramid; - explain the differences between the different mortality indicators used; - distinguish between disease prevention strategies and levels; - differentiate between causal and non-causal factor associations and health events; - calculate basic epidemiological indicators; - calculate morbidity and mortality rates; - calculate the measures of diagnostic tests; - calculate the epidemiological measures of associations; - to evaluate the validity of epidemiological studies according to the study design. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To apply the fundamental principles of epidemiology in health management practice and research. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Fleming, S. (2014). Managerial epidemiology cases and concepts. ProQuest Ebook Central | ||||||||
| 2 | Greenberg R.S. (Ed.). (2014). Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care. 5th ed. McGraw Hill. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lesneski, C. D., & Healey, B. J. (2011). Transforming public health practice: Leadership and management essentials. ProQuest Ebook Central | ||||||||
| 2 | Somerville, Margaret, et al. Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Eurostat Health Data | ||||||||
| 2 | WHO Health Data | ||||||||
| 3 | OECD Health Data | ||||||||
