Course: Protection and Promotion of Public Health

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Course title Protection and Promotion of Public Health
Course code PVL/ZDB11
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Horáková Dagmar, prof. MUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Principles and background of health promotion, assessment of health promotion in the Czech Republic 2. Health promotion programs and strategies in communities, WHO main documents 3. Application of health promotion models in practice, Act No. 258/2000 Coll., on the protection of public health as last amended, Decree No. 355/2017 Coll., on vaccination against infectious diseases. 4. Establishment and development of public health, health of population, public health protection subjects 5. System tools to public health protection and promotion, health risks prevention 6. Prevention of infectious diseases 7. Epidemiological alertness system 8. Vaccination, immunization programmes of the European Union 9. Immunization program in the Czech Republic 10. Types and labels of vaccines 11. Immunization control, vaccination coverage in the Czech Republic and the European Union 12. Nutrition in relation to the health of the population, prevention possibilities in nutrition 13. Nutrition monitoring, food consumption in the Czech Republic 14. Prevention of diseases of a mass occurrence 15. The Future of Public Health in the Czech Republic - objectives, social efforts, specialization

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to introduce the population approach in health care, the main documents of health promotion in the Czech Republic and at the international level, tools used in the public health protection. The aim is to clarify that health protection and promotion is a combination of public and individual responsibility for health with the use of tools of society. The issue of vaccination will as a basic tool in the protection of public health will be taught, as well as the methodology of community preventive programmes, the possibilities of prevention in nutrition.
Student will understand the organization of activities aimed to protection and improvement of health of population and population groups, including valid legislation.
Prerequisites
unspecified
PVL/ZDA18

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam

For course completion it is required to completely develop a community preventive programme. Oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • Vyhláška č. 537/2006 Sb., o očkování proti infekčním nemocem v aktuálním znění.
  • Vyhláška č. 537/2006 Sb. Vyhláška o očkování proti infekčním nemocem. ze dne 8. 12. 2006 ve znění pozdějších předpisů..
  • Beran, J., Havlík, J., Vonka, V. (2005). Očkování - minulost, přítomnost, budoucnost. Praha: Galén.
  • Fait, T., Vrablík, M., & Češka, R. (2008). Preventivní medicína. Praha: Maxdorf.
  • Harman, Sophie. (2012). Global health governance. Abingdon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Holčík, J. (2010). Systém péče o zdraví a zdravotní gramotnost: k teoretickým základům cesty ke zdraví. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
  • Janečková, H., Hnilicová, H. (2009). Úvod do veřejného zdravotnictví. Praha: Portál.
  • Müllerová, D., Aujezdská, A. (2014). Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a veřejné zdravotnictví. Praha: Karolinum.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): Public Health (2019) Category: Health service 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer