Public Health (SVUEK_095)
About Study Course
Objective
The aim of the course is to provide knowledge in the fundamentals of public health, necessary to understand health information and evidence based public health practice.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge in human normal physiology and pathology and/or propaedeutics; basic arithmetics; English reading.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course the students will be able to:
• define concepts of health, norm and disease;
• state tasks of public health and to list the main disciplines;
• define a concept of prevention; to describe strategies and levels of disease prevention, including fundamental principles of screening;
• define a concept of health promotion and to describe approaches to health promotion;
• list the main categories of health determinants in the context of the multi-factorial theory;
• define and list social determinants of health;
• list basic epidemiological measures; to explain differences and relations between them;
• identify sources and methods for collecting health information; to describe their advantages and limitations;
• recognize the main types of epidemiological studies.
• interpret the concepts of health and disease in the professional context;
• illustrate with examples approaches to health promotion and disease prevention;
• demonstrate examples of health determinants, including the social determinants of health;
• calculate basic epidemiological measures;
• use statistics data bases for health information search.
• debate about public health problems and potential solutions in the professional context;
• evaluate a suitability of data sources and indicators for an assessment of the given health problem;
• judge about an appropriateness of the study design in regard to the research question.
