Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Environmental and Public Health
Course Code
RSV_011
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Public and environmental health
ECTS
18.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Anita Brila
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Public health doctor
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Anita Brila
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About Study Course
Objective
To obtain knowledge about:
- public health monitoring and reporting (PHMR), indicators used to monitor public health and diseases subjected to monitoring;
- the role of primary healthcare in ensuring public health;
- healthcare system management principles;
- health promotion policy and practice development principles, applied strategies, political and socio-economic factor of health promotion practice.
- regularities of communication processes.
Occupational health, hygiene of children and teenagers and the risks related thereto.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.During acquisition of the study course a medical resident obtains knowledge about: - Public health monitoring and reporting (PHMR), indicators used to monitor public health and diseases subjected to monitoring; - the role of primary healthcare in ensuring public health; - healthcare system management principles; - health promotion policy and practice development principles, applied strategies, political and socio-economic factor of health promotion practice; - regularities of communication processes. Occupational health, hygiene of children and teenagers and the risks related thereto.
Skills
1.As a result of the study course, the resident will be able to: - carry out environmental monitoring, surveying objects, evaluating risk factors and their impact on health, developing measures (proposals) to reduce them; - perform hygienic expertise of objects and events.
Competences
1.As a result of successful acquisition of the study course a medical resident will develop compulsory competence of a certified public health physician allowing to independently operate in the area of public health.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
18.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
14
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.
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Eglīte M. Darba medicīna. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2012.
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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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Mozgis Dz. Ceļvedis veselības aprūpes sistēmā. SIA „Nacionālais apgāds”, 2008.
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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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Szklo M., Nieto F. J. Epidemiology. Beyond the Basics. 2nd Edition. UK, London: Jones and Barlett Publishers, 2007.
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Teibe U. Bioloģiskā statistika. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2007.
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Kļaviņa M. un Jāņa Zaļokšņa redakcijā. Klimats un ilgtspējīga attīstība.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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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
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Environment and human health. Joint EEA-JRC report. European Environment Agency, 2013, 107 p.
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Baltiņš M. Lietišķā epidemioloģija. Rīga: „Zinātne”, 2003.
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Lindberga Z. Higiēna. Rīga: Zvaigzne, 1991.
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Praude V., Beļčikovs J. Menedžments. Rīgā, SIA “Vaidelote”, 2001.
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Veselība 21 – veselība visiem 21.gadsimtā, PVO, 1999.
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