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Public Health (STEX)

Class at Second Faculty of Medicine |
DA0108205

Syllabus

PUBLIC HEALTH

Introduction to Public Health, determinants of health, measurement of health status and outcomes of health care

Social security systems in international perspective and their ralation to health

International health organizations and programs

Economics and reform of health care: financing, paying, providers and organization of delivery systems

Health policy and politics

International comparison of health care systems, health care systems in selected OECD countries

Health care systém in the Czech Republic

Quality in health care, quality assurance

Health and social care in children with handicap

Home care in selected OECD countries and in the Czech Republic

Health and social services for the older people, field visit in the Gerontocentrum

Children with handicap, field visit in the institute Modrý klíč

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Preventive medicine, introduction, health status determinants, life style and noncommunicable diseases prevention

Nutrition in chronic diseases prevention, dietary guidelines

Smoking related problems, nicotin addiction treatment

Injury epidemiology and prevention

Cardiovascular diseases epidemiology and prevention

Occupational health and safety

Mental health, psychological and behavioral risk factors

Housing and health, indoor air pollution

Environmental health

Annotation

Integrated subject formed by preventive medicine-primary prevention, epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases, health and social legislation, handicap problems, systems of health and social care, economic analyses of health programmes, legal responsibility, medical information system, demography in medicine.