ECTS - Public Health
Public Health (MED106) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Public Health | MED106 | 2. Semester | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Distance, Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Drill and Practice, Observation Case Study, Role Play. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | To gain knowledge about the concepts of health, social medicine and public health, determinants of health, indicators of health level, health management and economics, occupational safety and health, major environmental health problems, management of public health disaster and epidemics, vaccines, immunization programmes, sterilization, disinfection, antisepsis, drug development, tobacco use, hypothesis testing |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Introduction to public health, health and disease concepts, public health in developed countries, public health in developing countries, globalization and health, components of health, socioeconomic differences and public health, food and water safety, environmental health and inspection, access to health services, human rights and health. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introduction to Public Health Committee Introduction to Public Health Concepts of Health and Disease New drug development General Principles of Vaccination The WHO Public Health in Developed Countries Food and Water Safety Vaccine Types Control Programs by MoH Globalization and Public Health Immunization and Public Health The ILO Water Microbiology Pharmacogenetics Health and Physical activity Socioeconomic Differences and Public Health Access to Health Services | - |
| 2 | Modern Science in Medicine and Features of the 20th Century Medicine History of Turkish Medicine Before the Turkish Republic History of Turkish Medicine After the Turkish Republic Public Health Disasters Environmental Health and Inspection Management of Epidemics Human Rights and Health Public Health and Infectious Diseases Health Economics International Health Healthcare Management Public Health Ethics Food Microbiology Sterilization, disinfection, antisepsis Pregnant Health Epidemiologic Research Methods in Medicine Medical Wastes for Public Health Demography and Public Health Tobacco use | - |
| 3 | Management of substance abuse: Alcohol, drugs and addictive behaviours Community and mental health Vaccine Technologies, Future Vaccine Technologies Childhood vaccination Adolescent vaccination Adult Vaccination Vaccination of Risk Groups Health Level Indicators Community Health and Nutrition | - |
| 4 | Medical Law Community Health and Education Community Screening Programs Role Play: Vaccine Hesitancy Occupational Diseases and Work Accidents Physical Injury and Chemical Injury Small-groups Application-based Learning: Sterilization and Disinfection in Medical Microbiology Laboratory Exam preparation and General exam | - |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 6th Edition Roger Detels, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang, Martin Gulliford |
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| 2. Textbook of Family Practice, 9th Edition Robert E. Rakel, David P. Rakel | |
| 3. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (14th Edition); Bertram G. Katzung, Anthony J. Trevor; McGraw-Hill, 2018. | |
| 4. Medical Microbiology (8th Edition); Patrick Murray, Ken Rosenthal, Michael Pfaller; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2016. | |
| 5. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. John Bennett Raphael Dolin Martin J. Blaser. 9 th edition., 2019 | |
| 6. Robbins Basic Pathology (10th Edition); Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Jon C. Aster; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2018. | |
| 7. Park’s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine (23rd Edition); K. Park; Bhanot, 2015. | |
| 8. Evaluating Public and Community Health Programs (2nd Edition); Muriel J. Harris; John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2016. | |
| 9. Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective (2nd Edition); James A. Johnson, Carleen Stoskopf, Leiyu Shi; Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Burlington, 2018. | |
| 10. Epidemiology (5th Edition); Leon Gordis; Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, 2014. | |
| 11. Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology, 28e, McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. | |
| 12. Medical Physiology 3rd Edition by Boron MD PhD, Walter F, Boulpaep MD, Emile L. (2017). |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 15 | 2 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | 1 | 10 |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | 1 | 8 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | - | - |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 80 |
| Toplam | 18 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 20 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 80 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Integrates and utilizes the information, skills, and approaches obtained from basic, clinical, and medical sciences, behavioral sciences, and social sciences when offering healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 2 | Offers healthcare services to patients with a biopsychosocial approach where the sociodemographic and sociocultural backgrounds of these individuals are taken into consideration, focusing on the universal human values, ethical principles, and professional duties; without exercising discrimination on the basis of language, religion, race, or sex. | X | ||||
| 3 | Aims to protect, improve, and develop individual and public health when offering healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 4 | Performs the necessary studies in sustaining and improving health, taking into the individual, public, social, and environmental factors to affect it. | X | ||||
| 5 | Trains healthy individuals/ patients, their relatives, and other healthcare workers in healthcare upon determining the features, requirements, and expectations of their target audience. | X | ||||
| 6 | Exercises a safe, rational, and effective approach in the procedures of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation; while offering healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 7 | Implements interventional and/or non-interventional practices in a way that is safe and effective for patients during the procedures of diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation. | X | ||||
| 8 | Offers healthcare services taking into account the health and safety of patients and employees. | X | ||||
| 9 | Takes the regional and global changes in physical and socioeconomic settings to affect health, as well as the changes in the individual features and behaviors of patients referring to them into account, while offering healthcare. | X | ||||
| 10 | Takes the good medical practices into account while performing their duties. | X | ||||
| 11 | Undertakes the tasks and duties within the framework of their professional ethical rules, as well as their legal rights and duties. | X | ||||
| 12 | Stands for the improvements in the manner in which healthcare services are offered, taking into account the concepts of social reliability and social duty, in an effort to protect and improve individual and public health. | X | ||||
| 13 | Evaluates the effects of health policies and healthcare practices on public health indicators, and, where required, amends their evaluation on the grounds of scientific and social needs; in an effort to help improve the quality of healthcare services. | X | ||||
| 14 | Leads their healthcare team while offering healthcare services, in a participative, and collaborative manner. | X | ||||
| 15 | Establishes positive relationships within their healthcare team; and where needed, easily adapts to various positions among their team. | X | ||||
| 16 | Exercises effective communication with patients, the relatives of patients, healthcare professionals, and groups from other professions, as well as institutions and organizations. | X | ||||
| 17 | Plans and conducts scientific studies on the society to which they serve, and use the results of these, or those from other studies, to benefit the society. | X | ||||
| 18 | Accesses the current literature on their profession, and evaluates them with a critical approach. | X | ||||
| 19 | Chooses the correct sources of learning to improve the healthcare services that they offer, and regulates their own learning process. | X | ||||
| 20 | Demonstrates the skills of obtaining and evaluating new information, integrating newer pieces of information with their current ones, as well as adapting to changing conditions throughout their professional life. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 4 | 17 | 68 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Special Course Internship | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 4 | 6 | 24 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 4 | 6 | 24 |
| Total Workload | 127 | ||