Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Environmental and Public Health II
Course Code
RSV_017
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health
ECTS
8.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Violeta Mavčutko
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Public health doctor
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Violeta Mavčutko
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
To acquire knowledge about the basic principles of healthy nutrition, about food hygiene and related risk factors, food contamination, food-borne diseases. EU and Latvian laws and regulations.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.As a result of completing the study course, the medical resident will acquire knowledge about the basic principles of healthy nutrition, about food hygiene and related risk factors, food contamination, food-borne diseases. EU and Latvian laws and regulations.
Skills
1.As a result of completing the study course, the resident will be able to assess the observance of hygiene norms in a facility involved in food business, identify the risk factors associated with it, and will be able to provide recommendations for the development of measures to reduce the impact of risk factors on human health.
Competences
1.As a result of completing the study course, the medical resident will become competent and will be able to independently visit a food facility, identify and evaluate potential risk factors, and make proposals for the prevention thereof.
Assessment
Individual work
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- to prepare presentations on “The Structure, Physiology, Genetics and Classification of Micro-Organisms. Pathogenicity and Virulence Factors of Micro-Organisms. The Pathogenic Activity of Micro-Organisms and the Basics of Pathological Processes”.
- to study the regulatory basis for the laboratory examinations of contacts in the foci of infection (sampling from people), as well as environmental sampling;
- to get acquainted with regulatory documents that regulate food safety, inspection of food facilities for the purpose of planned monitoring and inspection of food facilities according to epidemiological indications.
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Examination
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After each study course, theoretical knowledge test in the form of a test and questions, solving situational tasks.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Seminar
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Topics
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Principles of healthy nutrition.
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Food hygiene and related risk factors (food contamination, food-borne diseases). EU and Latvian laws and regulations.
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Food additives and conditions of their use. EU and Latvian laws and regulations.
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Food information for consumers (product labelling). EU and Latvian laws and regulations.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
8.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
4
Length (weeks):
6
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Rothman, K.J., Greenland, S., Lash, T.L. Modern Epidemiology. 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008.
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Baltiņš M. Lietišķā epidemioloģija. Rīga: „Zinātne”, 2003
3.
Dundurs J. Methodic Directions for Practical Works in Occupational Health. RSU, Rīga, 2011.
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Eglīte M., Aulika B., Avota M., u.c. Vides veselība. Rīga, Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes, 2008.
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Klimats un ilgtspējīga attīstība. Māra Kļaviņa un Jāņa Zaļokšņa redakcijā. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2016, 384 lpp.
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Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks / Annette Prüss-Üstün, J. Wolf, C. Corvalán, R. Bos and M. Neira. World Health Organization 2016, 147 p.
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WHO global air quality guidelines. World Health Organization, 273 p, 2021
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Science for Environmemtal Policy Future brief: What are the health costs of environmental pollution? European Commission, 2018, 57 p
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Environmental Health. Intechopen. Edited by Takemi Otsuki, 2021, 256 p.
10.
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. 4th Revised edition. Edited by Ichiro Kawachi, Walter Ricciardi, Edited by Iain Lan. Izdošanas datums: 24-Sep-2020. Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 0198800126.
