LF:VSSL051p Social Medicine - lecture - Course Information
VSSL051p Social Medicine - lecture
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. MUDr. Jan Holčík, DrSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Radek Policar (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavlína Kaňová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner) - Guaranteed by
- JUDr. Radek Policar
Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Administration – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Helena Malenová
Supplier department: Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Administration – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Mon 16. 9. to Fri 8. 11. Tue 15:00–16:40 B22/116 aula, except Tue 15. 10.
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ( VSLT0221s Bas. Med. Terminol. II -s || VSLT011s Bas. Med. Terminology -l ) && VSET021 Medical Ethics I && VSPP3X1 Nursing && ZC041 Handling chemical substances
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
- General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL)
- Course objectives
- By the end of this course student should be able to: describe the content, mission, basic theories and methods of social medicine; use epidemiologic methods for assessing the health status of defined population; apply theoretical and methodological knowledge in health situation analysis; assess health risks and propose suitable measures to improve the health of the population; understand the basis of statistical and systemic thinking in medicine, the basis of methods of critical appraisal of population studies results and consequent organizational measures.
- Syllabus
- 1. Community medicine in a historical perspective.
- 2. Measures of disease frequency.
- 3. Mortality statistics.
- 4. Comparing disease occurrence, population impact.
- 5. Observational studies.
- 6. Intervention studies.
- 7. Distributions and summary measures.
- 8. Estimation and testing.
- 9. Measures of association.
- 10. Interpretation of epidemiological studies.
- 11. Diagnostic tests.
- 12. Screening.
- 13. Health care planning and evaluation.
- 14. Health care systems.
- 15. Current issues in health policy.
- Literature
- HOLČÍK, Jan, Adolf ŽÁČEK and Ilona KOUPILOVÁ. Sociální lékařství. 3. nezměn. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 137 s. ISBN 9788087192153. info
- GERYLOVOVÁ, Anna and Jan HOLČÍK. Úvod do základů statistiky : text pro semináře. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 50 s. ISBN 9788021056619. info
- BONITA, R., R. BEAGLEHOLE and T. KJELLSTROM. Basic epidemiology. 2nd. Geneva: WHO, 2006, 213 pp. ISBN 9789241547079. info
- První dva tituly jsou základní, ostatní doplňkové.
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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