Academic Year/course:
2017/18
304 - Degree in Medicine
26721 - Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Syllabus Information
Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
26721 - Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Faculty / School:
104 - Facultad de Medicina
Degree:
304 - Degree in Medicine
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
4
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview
The learning process that has been designed for this subject is based on:
- Attendance and participation to theory and working sessions.
- Development of scheduled autonomous work.
- Autonomous study of papers and documents.
- Attendance and participation to theory and working sessions.
- Development of scheduled autonomous work.
- Autonomous study of papers and documents.
5.2. Learning tasks
Our program includes:
- Lectures.
- In-class activities.
- Autonomous work on line (documentation provided by Department):
- Review and analysis of papers.
- Case study.
- Video analysis.
- Short quiz for self-learning.
5.3. Syllabus
The course will address the following topics:
Introduction and scope of Public health and Preventive Medicine
- Public Health and Preventive Medicine: strategies for action.
Epidemiology
- The analysis of the population. Demography. Health information systems.
- Concept and applications of epidemiology.
- Causality in epidemiology.
- Measuring the level of health (I): Health indicators.
- Measuring the level of health (II): Accuracy and validity. Error and bias.
- Measuring the level of health (III): Comparability and adjustment. Measurement of mortality and morbidity.
- Strategies in epidemiological research. Studies design.
- Descriptive epidemiology: person, place and time. Prevalence and longitudinal studies.
- Experimental and analytical epidemiological studies. Clinical trials.
- Observational epidemiological studies: case-control and cohort studies.
- Clinical Epidemiology I: Evaluation of diagnostic tests. Strategies for early diagnosis.
- Clinical Epidemiology II: Prognosis and survival.
Clinical and Health Care management
- Health system. Patterns of health systems. Determinants of health policy. International health organizations. Non-governmental organizations focused on health care.
- The Spanish health system: resources, organization and regulation. Levels of health care: Primary health care. Specialized care. Hospital structure and functioning.
- Clinical reasoning and determinants of clinical decision making. Clinical practice variations. Sources of evidence. Systematic reviews. The Cochrane Collaboration
- Critical appraisal of scientific literature on treatment, prognosis, causation and diagnostic tests.
- Planning and programming in health services. Clinical guidelines, protocols and clinical pathways
- Evaluation of health services. Rational of evaluation. Health technology assessment. Health Care Technology and Evaluation in Health Care.
- Health Economics. Economic evaluation studies.
- Quality and safety in health care. Incidents and adverse events of health care. Quaternary prevention
Strategies of prevention and promotion and protection of health
- Health protection. Pollution and environmental risks: measuring and health effects.
- Health Promotion. Lifestyle and health. Health and work: Risks of work. Nutrition and Public Health. Nutritional risk factors. Tobacco and alcohol as public health problems. Health education. Medical counseling. Occupational health.
- Epidemiology and prevention strategies for chronic diseases and accidents.
- Current problems in epidemiology and prevention of communicable diseases. Epidemiological surveillance. Vaccinations
- Communicable diseases as population phenomenon. Emerging and reemerging diseases. Epidemiology and prevention of diseases requiring quarantine and special regulations.
- Epidemiology and prevention of health care-associated infections.
Program practices, case studies and seminars
- Demographic indicators. Study of mortality. Rate adjustment.
- Epidemiology 1: Incidence and prevalence. Descriptive studies
- Epidemiology 2: Clinical trials.
- Epidemiology 3: Study design. Case-control studies and cohort.
- Epidemiology 4: Validity of diagnostic tests.
- Epidemiology 5. Outbreaks studies.
- Clinical and health management 1: Indicators of health services. Sources for the study of health services.
- Clinical and health management: Quality assessment and improvement of patient safety.
- Prevention of infections associated with health care. Hand washing.
- Strategies for action in public health and preventive medicine. Promotion and protection of health.
- Critical appraisal and evaluation of evidence.
- Public Health and Society: Forum discussion on three issues: Ethical Foundations of clinical research, Epidemics and Humanitarian Medicine
5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources
Textbooks:
- Alhbom A. et al. Fundamentos de Epidemiología. Madrid: Siglo XXI; 2007.
- Aranaz JM et al. Gestión Sanitaria. Calidad y Seguridad de los Pacientes. Madrid: Díaz de Santos; 2008.
- Argimon JM, Jiménez J. Métodos de Investigación Clínica y Epidemiológica 4ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier; 2013.
- Beaglehole R et al. Epidemiología básica 2ª ed. Washington DC: Organización Panamericana de la Salud; 2003.
- Detels R, Gulliford M, Karim QA, Tan CC. ed. Oxford Textbook de Global 6ª ed Salud Pública 3 vol. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2015.
- Invitado C, W Ricciardi, Kawachi I, Lang I. Manual de Oxford de la Práctica de Salud Pública. Oxford: Oxford Univerity Press; 2013.
- Hernández I et al. Manual de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, 2ª ed. Madrid: Interamericana; 2011.
- Fletcher RH, Fletcher SW, Wagner EH. Epidemiología Clínica. Aspectos esenciales.4ª Ed Barcelona: Masson - Williams & Wilkins; 2008.
- Hulley S. et al. Diseño de investigaciones 3ª ed. Barcelona: Wolters Kluver: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008.
- Martínez MA et al. Conceptos de Salud Pública y Estrategias Preventivas. Un párrafo manual de ciencias de la salud. Barcelona: Elsevier; 2013
- Piédrola G et al. Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, 12ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier; 2015
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