Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Environmental and Public Health
Course Code
RSV_001
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 (concept, definition) as a subfield of medicine;
- public health objectives, tasks and priorities;
- general hygiene. Environment and a person. Environmental factors and their impact on human health;
- Environmental quality indicators and their assessment principles.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.By using the obtained knowledge and understanding a student will be able to: - define and explain a concept and definition of public health; - describe and explain the objectives of public health, tasks and priorities; - present knowledge about general hygiene, environmental factors and their impact 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, quality and safety assessment principles, incl. drinking water supply hygiene, as well as risk factors related to water supply.
Skills
1.A student will be able to: - observe and assess public health condition, physical and social environment; - survey and analyse public health risk factors and their prevention opportunities.
Competences
1.- assess environmental risk factors, plan prevention measures of the impact of environmental risk factors on the living conditions and health of people.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
18.00
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
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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.
