Content
- Lectures: 20 hours
- Independent work: 45 hours
Subject carrier
Description
Section 1:
• Theoretical basis of public health
• Development of public health and field definition (different definitions of public health, development and historical points)
• Significant public health terms and concepts (health, disease, clinical medicine, population medicine)
Section 2:
• Methods of studying phenomena related to health and other working methods in public health
• Demographic events and phenomena
• Characteristics and structure of population
• Demographic and health data
• Routine and periodic sources of health data
• Classification of diseases
• Descriptive epidemiology – indicators of disease burden; absolute value, rough and age-standardized rates
• Analytical epidemiology – epidemiological research; relative risk
Section 3:
• Major public health problems and risk factors
• Review of major health problems (communicable diseases, chronic non-communicable diseases, injuries, mental disorders)
Section 4:
• Dealing with health issues (prevention)
• Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; vaccination, screening, treatment, palliative,
rehabilitation
Section 5:
• Systems and organization of health care protection and health insurance with health legislation
• Health protection and medical activities
• Health protection systems
• Financing health services and economics in health protection
• Current health care system and health legislation in Slovenia
