Public Health - FD10072

• Title: Public Health
• Guaranteed by: Department of Preventive Medicine (15-220)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:30/15, C+Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
• Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Lenka Hodačová, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : {Dentistry 3rd year}
• Incompatibility : FZ10068
• Interchangeability : FA0209139, FZ10068
• Is incompatible with: FZ10068
• Is interchangeable with: FZ10068
• In complex pre-requisite: FD10083
• Is complex co-requisite for: FD10083

Annotation

English

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (29.08.2023)

Public health. Determinants of health, social determinants. Health status of population, main health problems of the European population. Demography and its importance for health care, ageing of population and its consequences for health and social care. Basic principles and applications of epidemiology, types of epidemiological studies. Disease prevention and health promotion. Health policy, health care systems, health care management and evaluation. Health economy, health care financing. Health insurance. Solidarity in health. World Health Organization and its importance. Quality of life. Basic ethical issues in contemporary medicine. Factors affecting dental (private) practice, legal, ethical and personal points of view.

Czech

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (29.08.2023)

Veřejné zdravotnictví. Determinanty zdraví, sociální determinanty. Zdravotní stav obyvatelstva, hlavní zdravotní problémy evropské populace. Demografie a její význam pro zdravotní péči, stárnutí populace a jeho důsledky pro zdravotní a sociální péči. Základní principy epidemiologie, typy epidemiologických studií, aplikace. Prevence nemocí a podpora zdraví. Zdravotní politika, systémy zdravotní péče, management ve zdravotnictví, hodnocení zdravotní péče. Ekonomie zdravotnictví, financování zdravotní péče. Zdravotní pojištění, princip solidarity. Světová zdravotnická organizace a její význam. Základní etické problémy současné medicíny. Faktory ovlivňující stomatologickou (soukromou) praxi, právní, etické a osobní hledisko. Faktory ovlivňující zubní (soukromou) praxi, právní, etické a osobní hledisko. Veřejné zdraví, determinanty zdraví, zdravotní stav populace, základní principy a aplikace epidemiologie, strategie zdravotní péče, prevence a podpora zdraví, zdravotní politika, management zdravotní péče, ekonomika zdraví, systémy zdravotní péče, hodnocení zdravotnických služeb.

Entry requirements

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (29.08.2023)

Prerequisites: compulsory subjects of the 3rd year

Aim of the course

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1. The student will gain a basic teoretical overview of public health issues (public health and its determinants; health care systems; health care financing and legislation)

2. The student will obtain basic practical information on the management of a private dental practice (labour-legal relations; establishment and operation of a private practice; practice costs)

Requirements to the exam

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Credit

1. Attendance at seminars is compulsory. One properly excused absence will be tolerated; late arrivals will be counted as absences. In the case of more than one absence, the student must work on the topic assigned by the lecturer in order to receive credit. Any absences greater than 40% (3 or more seminars) will be handled individually with the head of the department chair and the course quarantor.

2. Active participation in seminars. The topics of the individual seminars (and their schedule) are posted on the departmental board.

3. Preparation and presentation of a chosen public health topic at the last seminar.

Consultations: are available by appointment with the teachers of Department of Preventive Medicine.

 

Exam

Students who have received credit may take the examination. Oral examination: two questions. It is forbidden to use any electronic devices during the examination; to communicate with another student or to copy in preparation for the exam. If a student is caught violating these rules, he/she will be graded "failing". 

Syllabus

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See Public Health FDP066. Other topics will be in the form of consultations and self-study.

 

Lecturers

• Lenka Hodacova, assoc. prof., M.D., Ph.D.
• Tomas Krabec, assoc. prof., Ing., Ph.D.
• Jan Hodac, Ing.
• Tereza Parilova, RNDr. BcA., DiS., MBA, Ph.D., FRSPH
• Stepan Kalousek, Mgr.

 

 Lectures

 

1. Health economy. Reimbursement in health care. (Hodac)
2. Public Health. Dental Public Health. Health and disease. The determinants of health and disease. Social determinants.  (Hodacova, Parilova)
3. Establishing and running dental practice. Most frequent problems associated with starting dental practice. Practice costs. Income and expenditure in private practice. (Krabec)
4. Posibilites, rights and dutiens of a graduate. Private practice as a self-contained unit. Document management in private practice. (Krabec)
5. Prevention. Screening. Health promotion. Health education. Health literacy. (Hodacova)
6. Health care systems. Health care system in the Czech Republic. Health care planning and evaluation. Equity in health. (Hodacova, Parilova)
7. Health needs assessment. Priorities in health care. Health policy. Quality measurement and improvement in health care. (Hodacova)
8. Ethical dilemmas in medicine. (Hodacova)
9. Epidemiology. Epidemiological study designs. Evidence - hased health care. (Hodacova)
10. Health legisltation. WHO. (Kalousek)

 

Practical courses & seminars

Lecturers

• Lenka Hodacova, assoc. prof., M.D., Ph.D.
• Jan Hodac, Ing.

Seminars

1. Health insurance. Solidarity in health. Practical cases of reimbursement. (Hodac, Hodacova)
2. Sources and critical use of health information. Measuring the frequency of health problems. The health status of population. (Hodacova) 
3. Demography and its importance for health care, basic demographical indicators, ageing of population and its consequences for health and social care. (Hodacova)
4. Quality of life and its measurement. Oral health - related quality of life. (Hodacova)
5. Project presentation. (Hodacova)

Literature

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (29.08.2023)

Compulsory literature

1. Čeledová L., Holčík J. et al. Social Medicine. An Introduction to New Public Health. Praha: Charles University, 2019. ISBN 978-80-246-4276-5
2. Gillam S., Yates J., Badrinath P. (Eds.) Essential Public Health. Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-68983
3. Armstrong D. Outline of Sociology as applied to Medicine. 5 th edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-340-80920-5

Recommend literature

1. Regmi K., Gee I., (eds.) Public Health Intelligence. Issue of Measures and Method. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-28324-1
2. Albrecht, .C., Fitzpatrick, R., Scrimshaw, C.S., (eds.) The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. Sage, 2000, ISBN 0-7619-5617-4