LF:aVLOZ0642c Public Health II - practice

aVLOZ0642c Public Health II - practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2019

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Martin Forejt, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Timetable of Seminar Groups

aVLOZ0642c/30: Wed 10:00–11:40 C15/333
aVLOZ0642c/31: Wed 14:00–15:40 A21/111
aVLOZ0642c/32: Wed 12:00–13:40 A21/111
aVLOZ0642c/33: Mon 13:00–14:40 C15/309
aVLOZ0642c/34: Tue 11:00–12:40 C15/333
aVLOZ0642c/35: Tue 13:00–14:40 C15/309
aVLOZ0642c/36: Wed 17:00–18:40 A21/108

Prerequisites

( aVLOZ0241c Public Health I - practice || aVLOZ0141c Public Health I - practice ) && aVLLM0522c Medical Microbiology II-pract. && aVLLM0522p Medical Microbiology II - lect && aVLBC0422p Biochemistry II - lect.

Prerequisites according to the MU study and examination regulations.

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)

Course objectives

THE AIM OF THE SUBJECT IS:
- understanding the complexity of relationships between the environment, the individual and the population,
- awareness of the influence of environmental factors (physical, biological, chemical, psychosocial), civilization changes and lifestyle on the health of the individual and the population,
- familiarization with the basic procedures for the prevention of health damage at individual and company level in relation to individual factors,
- adopting procedures to enhance the positive development of health,
- awareness of the importance of the physician's position in the protection and support of health,
- understanding the basic principles of the emergence and spread of infectious diseases and their prevention in healthcare settings.

Learning outcomes

AT THE END OF COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE:
- to explain the relationship between human and environment, its physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial factors and their interactions.
- to explain the role of adaptation and its active support for the positive development and promotion of both individual and public health;

- to make deduction about possibilities for preventive provisions in the field of clean and safe environmental, occupational and home surrounding, the quality of air, water, food.
- to understand and explain the different types of prevention, their tasks and aims and methods of realization.

-to interpret the positive and negative influences of lifestyle factors on human/public health, including the autoagressive behaviours (nutrition, physical activity, psychical overload and stress, smoking, abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs);
- to make deductions about the importance of environment and lifestyle in the health protection and promotion, and about the primary prevention priorities;

- to formulate decisions about concrete preventable possibilities for some more important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular, oncological, metabolically, immune, respiratory.

- to design and implement basic preventative and repressive measures to prevent transmission of infections.

Syllabus

I. Physical factors of environment
II. Biological factors of environment
III. Childhood hygiene
IV. Adolescent hygiene
V. Smoking
VI., VII. Nutrition
VIII. Dietary consumption evaluation
IX. Nutritional status assessment
X. Assessment of physical activity
XI. Preventive epidemiological measures; principles of vaccination
XII. Repressive anti-epidemic measures, epidemiological investigation at the outbreak
XIII. Healthcare facilities - hygiene requirements and operating conditions. Non-specific routes of infection transmission
XIV. Specific risks of transmission of infections in health care settings
XV. Disinfection and sterilization, clean rooms in healthcare.

Literature

required literature

Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine. Edited by Robert B. Wallace - Neal Kohatsu - John M. Last - Ross C. Brownson - A. Fifteenth edition. New York: McGraw Hill Medical, 2008, xxvii, 136. ISBN 9780071441988. info
Infectious disease epidemiology. Edited by I. Abubakar - Ted Cohen - Helen R. Stagg - Laura C. Rodrigues. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 379 stran. ISBN 9780198719830. info

recommended literature

www.cdc.gov (information not found in the books).
www.who.int (information not found in the books).
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx (information not found in the books).
GIBSON, Rosalind S. Principles of nutritional assessment. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, xx, 908. ISBN 0195171691. info

Teaching methods

Practices and class discussion.

Reading and studying ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE (essential information are also presented in form of lectures in the subject Public health II - lectures) and PRESENTATIONS FROM PRACTICES. Presentations are available in the section od learning materials of the subject.

For those who will have to write research projects and seminar papers during third, fourth and fifth year, it is strongly recommended to enrol the following courses:

VSIL021 - Information literacy - (3 credits) - e-learning.
VSKP041 - A course of working with information sources and tools (4 credits).

Assessment methods

REQUIREMENTS TO OBTAIN THE CREDIT:

1. The student must fulfill all the assumptions of the subject.
2. Required participation: At least 80% attendance will be required in order to obtain the credit, even in the case of replaced absences. If a student has more than 20% (more than 3 exercises) absences (apologized or not, absence due to late coming, even replaced), he / she will have to repeat the subject in the following semester or school year.
3. Fulfillment of assigned tasks - see also ABSENCE AND LATECOMER POLICY.
4. Successful completion of the credit test. Students will be admitted to the credit test only if they have met the previous conditions.

CREDIT TEST INFORMATION:

1. Get at least 70 % (14 out of 20 questions) in the credit test, which is a requisite to sit for examination.

2. Each student must register in the Information System (IS) in one of the offered credit test terms. The credit test has fixed examination terms / dates - (Only during the examination period, except the examination pre-term). No extra-terms will be given.
3. Students registered to a credit test term will fail the term if:
a-) arrive late to the test. No late arrival will be allowed after the start of the credit test.
b-) they are not present and previously do not cancel the term in the stipulated periods (see IS).

4. In case of failure, EACH STUDENT CAN RETAKE THE CREDIT TEST TWO MORE TIMES, only in given terms (according to Masaryk University study and examination regulations).

5. In case of failure during the third term (second resit), the student must repeat the course in the following school year.

6. All credit test questions are based on ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE, seminars and lectures.

The credit test is a written examination → 20 multiple choice question test, with only one correct answer - (to pass the test, it is required a minimum of 14 correct answers / points).

SCORE:

Passed → 14 and more points.
Failed → 13 or less points.

Correct answer = 1 point.
No answer = 0 point.

ABSENCE AND LATECOMER POLICY:

1) Late coming → the student arrives after 10 minutes from the beginning of the lesson. Such case, even if the student stays in education, leads to confirmed absence in that lesson and have to be solved in accordance with point 2).
2)In case of absences following the first one, the student will be required to prepare a seminar paper of 1500-2000 words starting with the second absence. The seminar work will not be required in case of apologized absence or absence due to late coming that will be replaced by student with an agreement of the teacher of missed topic.
3) The topic of the seminar work is entered based on the student's request, by the teacher from the lesson in which the student was absent. The student can contact the teacher directly or through the contact person of the subject. Seminar work has to be placed in the IS at the latest 7 days after the last day of teaching, otherwise the student will be refused → the student will not get a credit.
4) Students will receive an email with instructions on seminar papers.
5) If the seminar work is rejected due to deficiencies and will not be repaired and reassigned to the student, the student will not meet the requirements of the subject and receive credit (see also REQUIREMENTS TO OBTAIN THE CREDIT).

THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS. In the following cases, students will be not get the credit / allowed to take the credit test:
* Not submitting the assigned seminar paper.
* If the seminar paper is rejected due to deficiencies and is not corrected and submitted again.
* If the seminar paper is rejected three times.
* If the seminar paper has plagiarism or any unethical issues.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024, spring 2025.

Enrolment Statistics (spring 2019, recent)
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