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Learning outcomes |
1. Knowledge
Acquire the basic concepts of Public Health; understand and analyze examples of public health practice. Understand the evolution of population health and its determinants; framing the public health approach and the beginnings of preventive medicine; as well as the tools for its application in professional and clinical practice.
2. Ability
Frame the role and action of physicians in health promotion, integrated prevention and control of non-communicable and communicable chronic diseases, in epidemiological surveillance, in health policies and programs, regardless of medical specialty and/or professional occupation.
3. Skills and know-how
Act as an agent of health promotion; fully participate in improving the health of populations and engage in whole society approaches. Knowing how to apply the concepts, principles and tools learned in situations and circumstances of professional practice.
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Main Bibliography |
Skolnik R. Essential Public Health. Global Health 101, 4th edtion.
Donaldsons LJ, Rutter PD. Donaldsons’ Essential Public Health. 4th Ed. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis group. Boca Raton, USA, 2018.
Wilson F, Mabhala M, editors. Key Concepts in Public Health. 2nd ed. Sage Publications; 2015.
S Gilliam, J Yates, Badrinath P. Essential Public Health.Theory and Practice, 2nd ed.Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2013.
Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Kjellstrom T. Basic Epidemiology, second edition. WHO, 2006.
In addition to the books listed, the bibliography available on the intranet includes documents and content from WHO, OECD, UN, ECDC, as well as scientific papers. A main self-learning goal is to learn how to navigate in WHO websites and other sources of information in health, epidemiology and health programmes/policies/strategies. Students received proper guidance from tutors on how to use the bibliography
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