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Occupational and Environmental Health Hazards
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:14.09.2021 08:53:58
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | AUVMK_049 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine | Target Audience: | Communication Science; Information and Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Žanna Martinsone | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema Street 16, Ieva[pnkts]Kalve2 rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167060816 | ||||||||
| 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: | Knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology and physiology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | 1) acquire theoretical principles of environmental health concerning the role of pollution and adverse and harmful factors of various environmental components (air, water, soil), their impact on health, their identification, evaluation, control, prevention or reduction; 2) acquire theoretical principles of occupational medicine and occupational health on the impact of various occupational risk factors on the health of employees, their prevision, identification, evaluation, control, prevention or reduction. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Environmental health. Topicalities in environmental quality and protection issues in Latvia and in the world. Environmental legislation. Environmental monitoring bodies and available databases. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Air quality indicators and basic principles for air quality assessment. Air quality in Latvia and in the world. Key quality parameters for surface, underground and drinking water and basic principles for assessing its quality. Water quality in Latvia and in the world. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Assessment of environmental and ambient air quality. Water quality assessment. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Basic principles of food contamination and hygiene. Food safety in Latvia and in the world. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Food safety assessment. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Creating and presenting a description of an environmental problem. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Occupational hygiene and occupational medicine. Topical issues in employment protection in Latvia and in the world. Legislation in employment protection. The system of internal monitoring of the occupational environment in Latvia and in the world. Employment protection supervisory institutions, cooperation partners and available databases. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Physical and biological risk factors at work. Chemical risk factors at work. Ergonomic and psycho-emotional risk factors at work. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Traumatic risk factors at work. Accident investigation procedure. Occupational medicine. Occupational diseases in Latvia and in the world. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Assessment of occupational risk factors. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Basic principles and techniques for measuring occupational risk factors. | Classes | 1.00 | laboratory | |||||
| 12 | Overview of occupational diseases. Creating and presenting a description of the employment protection problem. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Acquisition of extensive knowledge, skills and competence from e-study materials, literature sources, presentations, discussions, databases and materials and data collected by competent institutions. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Tests of theoretical and practical knowledge are administered, case analysis are performed and discussions of practical assignments are held during the classes. Final test on completion of the course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • of the role of environmental health, its principles, directions, tasks and application in practice; • of the air, water and soil as ecological components of the environment, their pollution and preventive measures to reduce the pollution; • of the role of occupational medicine and occupational hygiene, their principles, directions and tasks; • of the impact of occupational factors on the body, development of preventive measures and monitoring of the work environment. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • independently, critically analyse, be able to find information and data, apply reasoning to justify own point of view while identifying environmental and occupational health hazards and assess their role in maintaining and strengthening the person’s health; • identify occupational risk factors and carry out the occupational risk assessment, as well as evaluate their potential impact on the human body. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • provide a qualitative description and analysis of issues related to environment and occupational medicine; • develop and describe recommendations and measures in order to prevent or reduce the environmental and occupational health hazards providing the optimum interaction between the human organism and the environment. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Vides veselība. RSU, 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | Eglīte M. Darba medicīna. 2.izdevums - Rīga, 2012. – 834 lpp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Darba apstākļi un riski Latvijā (2012-2013). - Rīga: LR Labklājības ministrija, 2013. – 139 lpp. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Darba drošība. – Rīga: LR Labklājības ministrija, 2003. – 286 lpp. | ||||||||
| 2 | Darba higiēna. - Rīga: LR Labklājības ministrija, 2003. – 155 lpp. | ||||||||
| 3 | Ergonomika darbā. – Rīga: LR Labklājības ministrija, 2003. – 176 lpp. | ||||||||
| 4 | Kaļķis V., Roja Ž. „Darba vides riska faktori un strādājošo veselības aizsardzība., Rīga, Elpa, 2001., - 510lpp. | ||||||||
| 5 | Kaļķis V., Darba vides risku novērtēšanas metodes.- Rīga: Latvijas izglītības fonds, 2008. – 242 lpp. | ||||||||
| 6 | Frumkin H., Environmental Health: From Global to Local. 2016, 3rd Edition | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Vides un darba veselības organizāciju interneta resursi | ||||||||
| 2 | Pasaules Veselības organizācijas interneta resurss: http://www.who.int/en/ | ||||||||
| 3 | Eiropas Komisijas interneta resurss: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/quality/ | ||||||||
| 4 | Eiropas Darba drošības un veselības aizsardzības aģentūras (EU-OSHA) interneta resurss: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/agencies/eu-osha_… | ||||||||
| 5 | Eiropas Darba drošības un veselības aizsardzības aģentūras nacionālā kontaktpunkta interneta resurss: http://osha.lv/lv/ | ||||||||
