Program of Study

/ : / General Medicine
Course / : /

Social Medicine and Medical Ethics

Abbreviation / : / SOL/VAB12
Schedule / : / 30 hours of seminars
Course Distribution / : /

2nd Year / Summer Semester / Academic Year

2017/2018

Number of Credits / : / 3
Course Form / : / Seminars

Seminars:Department of Social Medicine and Public Health (DSMPH), smallclassroom at DSMPH – TU SOL1

Teachers: / Assoc. Prof. Alena Petráková, MD, Ph.D.
PhDr. Miloslav Klugar, Ph.D.
PhDr. Zlata Pražanová, MBA
Study: / Continuous, Wednesdays
Date / Subject / No. of Less. /

Teacher

1. / 14. 02. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15groupD / Introduction to Social Medicine and Public Health, contemporary definitions of health, health theory, social determinants of health and disease / 2 / Petráková
2. / 21. 02. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Introduction to critical thinking, causal theory and the aetiology of diseases, pathology of disease, natural history of disease, theory of the iceberg, ICD / 2 / Klugar
3. / 28. 02. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Demography statics and dynamics; basic indicators, morbidity and mortality, life expectancy, age and sex specific mortality, population age and sex, natality and fertility / 2 /
Petráková
4. / 07. 03. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Health literacy, health promotion, strategies of health promotion in international documents, historical views of the limits of medicine; History of ethical and bioethical issues in medicine and in public health. / 2 / Petráková
5. / 14. 03. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Medical ethics, bioethics and law;
Revised Declaration of Lisbon on the rights of the patients;
Hippocratic Oath; Principles of modern medical ethics.
Current controversial ethical issues related to Life, Death and Dying. / 2 / Petráková
6. / 21. 03. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Global health problems differences around the World;
Health status in the Czech Republic and international comparison / 2 / Petráková
7. / 28. 03. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Evidence-Based Public Health introduction, theory, philosophy, methodology, approach. / 2 /
Klugar
8. / 04. 04. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / European public/health policy (European Union, European Commission, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/ECDC, OECD) / 2 /
Petráková
9. / 11. 04. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / World Health Organization (WHO) – history, function, structure, and key programs(Health 2020, Health Emergencies Programme, IHR, FCTC, and others, including the Sustainable Development Goals). / 2 / Petráková
10. / 18. 04. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / International development aid, humanitarian assistance, international humanitarian law and health care. / 2 / Petráková
11. / 25. 04. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C14:45–16:15 group D / National health policy (definition, aims, tasks, concepts, instruments of health policy, priorities of national health policy, role of the key stakeholders). / 2 / Petráková
12. / 02. 05. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Health status in the Czech Republic and international comparison; Students health status presentations. / 2 / Pražanová
13. / 09. 05. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / E-health(National health registers, international registers, and another health information systems, personal data protection). / 2 / Klugar
14. / 16. 05. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Principles of critical appraisal, objectivity, validity and reliability of research in Public Health practising. / 2 / Klugar
15. / 23. 05. 2018
08:50–10:20 group B
10:40–12:10 group A
12:20–13:50 group C
14:45–16:15 group D / Ethical principles of research,
Credit test / 2 / Petráková
Completed by: / Credit requirements:
1)Completion of presentation and presenting in the seminar about health status of the country of students origin. Details will be explained during particular seminar.
2)Knowledge of each seminar topic will be tested using credit test. The threshold for getting credits is at least 70 % success rate.
Requirements:
Literature: / 100% attendance, activity at seminars, presentation of health status, 70% success rate from credit test
  1. BEAUCHAMP, T. L. CHILDRESS, J. F. Principles ofBiomedical Ethics. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 546p. ISBN 0-19-508536-1.
  2. BONITA, R., BEAGLEHOLE, R, KJELLSTROM, T. Basic epidemiology.2nd. Geneva: WHO, 2006, 213p.,ISBN,9789241547079
  3. Available at:
  4. CURRIE, C., ZANOTTI, C., MORGAN, A., CURRIE, D., LOOZE, M. d., ROBERTS, C., BARNEKOW, V. Social determinants of health and well-being among young people: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. 2012.
  5. DONALDSON, R. J., DONALDSON, L. J. Essential Public HealthMedicine. 1st ed. Plymouth: Petroc Press, 1998. 514p. ISBN 1-900603-76-4
  6. THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE. The Joanna Briggs Institute Comprehensive Systematic Review – Training Programme, CSRTP Study Guide, Introduction to Evidence-Based Healthcare. Adelaide: The Joanna Briggs Institute, 2009, 52 s.
  7. LIAMPUTTONG, P. Research methods in health: foundations for evidence-based practice: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  8. SHAH, C.P. Public health and Preventive Medicine in Canada. 3rd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1994. 413p. ISBN 0-9694044-2-5.
  9. ROTHAMN, K.J. Epidemiology – an introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  10. EVANS T., WHITEHEAD M., DIDERICHSEN F., BHUIYA A., WIRTH M. Challenging inequities in health: from ethics to action. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001.
  11. FREMGEN, B. F. Medical Law and Ethics.4th ed.Pearson, 2012. ISBN 978-0-13-255922-5.
  12. KING, Nancy, STRAUSS, Ronald P. (Eds.). The social medicine reader. Volume I. Patients, doctors, and illness. 2nd edition. Durham and London: Duke University. 2005. ISBN 0-8223-3555-7.
  13. World Health Organization website:
  14. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
  15. European Commission: Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE):
  16. European Commission: Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO):
  17. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC):
  18. Selected electronic sources (links provided during the lessons)
  19. Power-point presentations used for the lessons

Doc. MUDr. Dagmar Horáková, Ph.D.

Head of Department of Social Medicine and Public Health

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University in Olomouc