Content
- Lectures: 40 hours
- Seminar: 10 hours
- Independent work: 70 hours
Subject carrier
Description
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.
