Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Basics of Public Health and Epidemiology
Course Code
RKM_020
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine
ECTS
13.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Aigars Reinis
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Clinical microbiologist
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Aigars Reinis
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
The study course provides students with the opportunity to construct their knowledge of the key issues of the field of contemporary public health and epidemiology.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.• to define the concept of health and describe the categories of factors affecting health; to define the challenges of public health as a science and practice; • to classify the levels of disease prevention and to describe the basic functions of health promotion; to describe the historical and contemporary understanding of the concept of epidemiology, to classify factors affecting health and risk factors, to describe types of health information; • to construct the main designs of epidemiological studies.
Skills
1.• to differentiate between causal and non-causal factor associations and health events; • to calculate health event and condition indicators; • to calculate demographic indicators; • to assess the validity of epidemiological studies according to the study design.
Competences
1.• to justify the need for empirical data in public health practice and data use in defining and solving public health problems; • to explain primary public health issues using quantitative empirical data; • to select health and demographic indicators for studies of health problems; • to critically evaluate health information according to its source and in the light of evidence; • to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, disease prevention and health promotion.
Assessment
Individual work
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Literature analysis, independent preparation for lectures/classes, presentations on data collection and compilation of data. Presentation of the results of independent work.
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Examination
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• Active participation during the interactive lectures. • Completed assignments that were given in classes. • Quality and timeliness of independent work assignments. • Final report • Analysis of a public health issue and presentation of the work, assessed on a 10-point scale, which accounts for 50% of the final assessment.
Exam – 50%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Health, public health, health promotion.
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Disease prevention. Screening.
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The concept of epidemiology. Causality.
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Epidemiological indicators. Health information.
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Epidemiological and analytical studies.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
13.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
5
Length (weeks):
10
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Greenberg R.S. (Ed.). Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care. 5e. 2014, McGraw-Hill.
2.
Somerville, Margaret, et al. Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central
3.
Chan, Bertram K. C. Biostatistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Using R. Springer Publishing Company, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central
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Bruce, Nigel, et al. Quantitative Methods for Health Research : A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central