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Health Promotion in Pharmaceutical Care
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:29.08.2024 11:14:41
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SVUEK_114 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Basic Sciences of Medicine, including Pharmacy | Target Audience: | Pharmacy | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne | ||||||||
| 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) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of epidemiology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of the study course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to be able to promote healthy lifestyle and disease prevention in their professional activities within their competence. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Disease prevention, health promotion – the role of pharmaceutical care therein. Determinants of health behaviour, theories of behaviour change. The role of health literacy in pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Metabolic diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity) in pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | COPD and asthma in pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Women’s health in pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | The role of pharmaceutical care in promoting the health of children and teenagers | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Infectious diseases in pharmaceutical care. Antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in the context of public health and pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Mental health in pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 8 | Traumatism and aspects of violence in pharmaceutical care | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independent work with literature | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Final examination – an exam. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | To list the main public health problems and their causes; outline possible solutions to the problems. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To recognise aspects of public health problems in pharmaceutical care, discuss ways to improve patient health literacy. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To address situations in practice related to poor patient health literacy or other individual or systemic causes, and propose solutions. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice, edited by David Pencheon et al. Oxford University Press, 2020. | ||||||||
| 2 | T.H.Tulachinsky, et al. The New Public Health. An introduction for the 21st century, Elsevier Science and Technology, 2000. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
