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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
• Empowerment, intersectoral cooperation and interdisciplinarity in health promotion
• The media and social marketing in health promotion
• Supporting the environment for health promotion

HEALTH EDUCATION
1. Basic concepts and definitions
• Definition of health education and its distinction from health promotion and public health
• Aims of health education at the primary, secondary and tertiary level
• General education and education for health (planned/spontaneous, indirect/direct education)
1. Learning – foundations and the lifelong perspective
• Experiential and problem-based learning; characteristics of adult learning (andragogical approach) and learning in children and adolescents in the context of health education
• Continuing/lifelong education of the health educator, acquisition and further development of professional knowledge
2. Systemic (pedagogical) approach to planning health education
• Needs assessment for health education: collecting and analysing information, defining the learning needs of individuals and groups
• Formulating educational aims and objectives (cognitive, affective, psychomotor)
• Planning content, methods and forms of work according to objectives and target group
3. Methodology and didactics of health education work
• Approaches, forms (individual, group) and methods of work
• Active learning and educational methods (conversation, discussion, demonstration, role play, small-group work, workshops, simulations), guided through structured “action points” with feedback
• Teaching aids and materials; selection according to target group and content
4. Communication in the health education process
• Assertive, therapeutic and persuasive communication in nursing care)
• Adapting communication to specific target groups (children, older adults, chronically ill patients, people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds)
• Basics of motivational/coaching conversation for individual lifestyle-change counselling
5. Planning and delivery of a lesson/health education presentation
• Structure of the lesson plan (introduction, main part, conclusion)
• Selection and preparation of materials for the chosen target group
• Delivery of the health education presentation
6. Evaluation of health education
• Benefits of systematic evaluation of the educational process
• Formative and summative evaluation, self-reflection, feedback