Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Environmental and Public Health I
Course Code
RSV_014
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health
ECTS
19.00
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 following:
- public health (concept, definition) as a sub-branch of medicine;
- the goals, tasks and priorities of public health;
- general hygiene. Environment and man. Environmental factors and impact thereof on human health;
- Environmental quality indicators and principles of the assessment thereof.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Using the acquired knowledge and understanding, the student will be able: - to define and explain the concept and definition of public health; - to describe and explain the goals, tasks and priorities of public health; - to present knowledge of general hygiene and environmental factors and impact thereof on human health; - physical pollution of the environment (noise, EMF, vibration); - air as a component of the environment, air protection, air-related risk factors, air quality assessment principles; - water as a component of the environment, water protection, principles of quality and safety assessment, including hygiene of drinking water supply, and risk factors related to water supply.
Skills
1.The student will be able: - to observe and assess the state of public health, the physical and social environment; - to identify and analyse public health risk factors and options for the prevention thereof.
Competences
1.- to assess environmental risk factors, develop measures to prevent the impact of environmental risk factors on people’s living conditions and health.
Assessment
Individual work
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- to prepare presentations “The Most Important Laws of the Republic of Latvia, Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers and Other External Regulatory Documents in the Field of Epidemiological Safety” and “Types of Drinking Water Supply, Pollution Risks and Prevention Thereof”;
- to study all the necessary regulatory basis for the evaluation of drinking water in the monitoring facility, including criteria for laboratory water testing;
- to use literature sources in order to get acquainted with the objectives of epidemiological investigation of cases of infectious diseases.
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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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The concept and definition of public health. Public health as the development of industry and science.
The goals, tasks and priorities of public health.
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General hygiene. Environment and man. Environmental factors and impact thereof on human health
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Air as an ecological component of the environment. Physical properties of air and effect thereof on the body, chemical composition of air and its hygienic significance.
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Types of air pollution and air-related risk factors. Effect of air pollution on human health. Air pollution criteria, air sampling regulations and test methods.
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EU and Latvian regulatory acts regulating air protection.
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Water as an ecological component of the environment, its physiological, hygienic and epidemiological significance.
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Surface and underground water sources, sanitary and hygienic characterisation thereof. Types of water pollution and water supply-related risk factors.
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Types of drinking water supply. Purification and disinfection of drinking water.
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Protection of water supply sources
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Bathing water management, bathing water quality assessment methods, monitoring
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Regulatory acts regulating mandatory safety and quality requirements of drinking water, monitoring procedure.
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Legislation for environmental protection. Basic principles of rating of harmful factors
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Macro-level and micro-level health determinants of the health of population. The social structure of society. Strategy for mitigating the impact of social factors.
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The main concepts and methods of modern epidemiology
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Definitions, advantages, disadvantages and calculation methods of basic epidemiological indicators.
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The role of mathematical and biological statistics in dealing with current issues of public health. Specific mathematical statistical data processing methods.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
19.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
16
Length (weeks):
14
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Dundurs J. Methodic Directions for Practical Works in Occupational Health. RSU, Rīga, 2011.
2.
Klimats un ilgtspējīga attīstība. Māra Kļaviņa un Jāņa Zaļokšņa redakcijā. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskaisapgāds, 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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Environment and human health. Joint EEA-JRC report. European Environment Agency, 2013, 107 p
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WHO global air quality guidelines. World Health Organization, 2021, 273 p.
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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.
Additional Reading
1.
Lindberga Z. Higiēna. Rīga: Zvaigzne, 1991
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Bjorn Lomborg. The skeptical environmentalist. Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Veselība 21 – veselība visiem 21.gadsimtā. PVO, 1999.
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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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Mozgis Dz. Ceļvedis veselības aprūpes sistēmā. SIA „Nacionālais apgāds”, 2008.
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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.
