Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Environmental and Public Health
Course Code
RSV_004
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health
ECTS
7.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Anita Brila
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Public health doctor
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Violeta Mavčutko
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
Acquisition of knowledge about the basic principles of a healthy diet, food hygiene and risk factors related thereto, food contamination, diseases caused by food. Regulatory enactments of the EU and Latvia.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.As a result of acquisition of the study course a medical resident will obtain knowledge about the basic principles of healthy diet, food hygiene and risk factors related thereto, food contamination, diseases caused by food. Regulatory enactments of the EU and Latvia.
Skills
1.As a result of acquisition of the study course a medical resident will be able to assess compliance with hygiene standards at an object involved in food supply, identify risk factors related thereto, provide recommendations for planning measures for the prevention of the impact of the risk factors on human health.
Competences
1.As a result of acquisition of the study course a medical resident will develop the required competence and will be able to pay a visit to the food object individually, identify and assess potential risk factors, give recommendations for the prevention there of.
Assessment
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
7.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
4
Length (weeks):
6
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
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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
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Dundurs J. Methodic Directions for Practical Works in Occupational Health. RSU, Rīga,2011.
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Eglīte M., Aulika B., Avota M., Bāķe M.Ā., Dundurs J., Jekabsone I., Spudža D., Vanadziņš I. 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.
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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.
