Public Health I

Module:

Basic Sciences

ECTS:

3

Contact hours – lectures:

30

Contact hours – seminar:

10

Contact hours – clinical exercises:

0

Contact hours – clinical practice:

0

Holder of subject:

Dr Maja Socan, Assistant Professor

Education providers:

• Dr Maja Socan, Assistant Professor
• Marjetka Hovnik Keršmanc, MSc, Senior Lecturer
• Alenka Hafner, Senior Lecturer

Level of study:

First Bologna cycle professional education study program

Semester:

Summer

Language:

Slovene/English
 

Subject specific competences:

The student:

• basic public health knowledge and epidemiological methods
• recognizing key public health problems in the population,
• knowledge of  system, organization and economic of health care.
• capability of data analysis,
• understand the health care systems,
• understand key health determinants.

Mandatory and recommended references:

Mandatory references:

• Zaletel Kragelj L, Eržen I, Premik M. Uvod v javno zdravje. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta, Katedra za javno zdravje; 2007.
• Premik M. Uvod v epidemiologijo. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta, Inštitut za socialno medicino; 1998.
• Socan M. Javno zdravje. Jesenice: Visoka šola za zdravstveno nego Jesenice; 2013.

Recommended references:

• Pirc B. Uvod v socialno medicino. Ljubljana: Medicinska fakulteta; 1980.
• Premik M. Socialnomedicinski vidiki zdravstvene vzgoje. Zdrav Vestn 1996; 65: Suppl I: 1-3-6.
• Health 21. The health for all policy framework for the WHO European Region. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe,  1999. Available at: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/98398/wa540ga199heeng.pdf

• Cesen M. Osnove upravljanja sistema zdravstvenega varstva. Ljubljana: ZZZS; 1998.
• Albreht T, Cesen M, Hindle D, Jakubowski E, Kramberger B, Kerstin Petric V, et al. Health Care Systems in Transition: Slovenia. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, 2002. Available at: http://www.euro.who.int/document/E76966.pdf.

Study obligations:

• 30% obligatory attendance at lectures
• 100% obligatory attendance at seminars
• seminar work

Assessment methods:

• written examination (100%)