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Public Health and Epidemiology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:29.08.2024 11:14:45
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_116 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Midwifery | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Toms Pulmanis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Institute of Public Health | ||||||||
| 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) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | The basics of normal and pathological physiology, Introduction to Psychology and Sociology, Introduction to Evidence-Based Care. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide knowledge and develop skills in the basic aspects of Public Health and Epidemiology, which are necessary for the evaluation of health information and for evidence-based practice of Public health in the framework of Nursing and Midwifery. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Health, public health. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 2 | Health information, data sources. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Disease prevention strategies, health promotion. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Social determinants of health. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Healthcare organization. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Epidemiology, causality, basic measures in epidemiology – incidence and prevalence. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Crude, specific and standardized rates, basic measures of demography. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Study designs in epidemiology – descriptive and analytic studies. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Work with literature. Analysis of research publications. Tasks for calculation of basic measures in epidemiology. Study course evaluation form to be filled in by the end of the study course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Cumulative assessment, consisting of 50% public health issue/challenge analysis and 50% written final exam. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • To define the concepts of health, norm and disease. • To formulate objectives and tasks of public health, name the most important sub-fields of public health. • To define the concept of disease prevention, strategies and levels of prevention, including the concept and preconditions of screening. • To define the concept of health promotion and characterize health promotion approaches. • Name main health determinants in the context of multicausality. • Name the definition of social determinants of health and different social determinants of health. • Name the basic measures in epidemiology, explain differences and interrelation between measures. • Name the sources of health information, methods of acquisition, advantages and disadvantages, objectives of health monitoring. • To recognize the basic designs of epidemiologic studies. • Name and describe the basic principles of healthcare organization and financing. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • To interpret the concepts of health and disease in relation to speciality. • To give examples of health promotion and disease prevention strategies. • To give examples of health determinants, including social determinants. • To calculate basic measures in epidemiology. • To distinguish crude, specific and standardized rates. • To distinguish study designs. • To use statistical databases for the search of health information. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • To discuss public health issues and potential speciality-related solutions. • To evaluate the appropriateness of data sources to ascertain public health problem/-s. • To evaluate the appropriateness of study design to answer research question. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Baltiņš, M. (2003). „Lietišķā epidemioloģija”. „Zinātne”, Rīga. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Donovan, D., & McDowell, I. (Eds.). (2017). AFMC Primer on Population Health - A virtual textbook on Public Health concepts for clinicians. Ottawa, ON: The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC). Retrieved from; https://phprimer.afmc.ca/en/ | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Greenberg, R. S. eds. 2015. Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Access Medicine DB. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.vm.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 2 | www.spkc.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 3 | www.csb.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 4 | www.who.int | ||||||||
| 5 | European Health Information Gateway. Available from: https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/hfa-explorer | ||||||||
