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PUBLIC HEALTH 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 HEALTH • Determinants of Health • Lifestyle and living
conditions related to health • Theories and models of behaviour related to
health and lifestyle • Inequalities in health HEALTH PROMOTION • Historical
overview and definitions of health promotion • Guidelines, activities and
principles of health promotion • Empowerment, intersectoral cooperation and
interdisciplinarity in health promotion • The media and social marketing in
health promotion • Supporting the environment for health promotion HEALTH
EDUCATION • Definition of health education, goals of health education at the
primary, secondary and tertiary level; • General education and education for
health; Planned and spontaneous education, direct and indirect education;
• Approaches, forms and methods of work in health education, in particular
individual and group form, and active teaching and educational methods. Teaching
equipment and materials; • Systematic approach to health education process;
Identifying need for health education; • Formal and informal education,
learning, memory, experiential learning, problem-based learning; • Permanent or
lifelong learning, acquisition of vocational and professional skills and
training; • Assertiveness in nursing care; • Preparation of lessons in health
education.