PUBLIC HEALTH

efining health and the health protection system, factors that impact health, enhancement and promotion of health, health care needs and demands, health status of the population and demographic features, health of individuals and the community, risk factors for health, health care economy, methods of social interventions in the field of social safety, unemployment and health care, social needs and social protection and self-protection, evaluation of the health status of the population, intervention throughout chronic diseases, planning and evaluating health protection, standards and norms, evaluation of work quality and professional monitoring, medical documentation, significance of screening programs, national programs for discovering malignant diseases.

Obavezna literatura:

1. Jakšić Ž, Kovačić L, i sur. Socijalna medicina. Zagreb: Medicinska naklada; 2000.

Dopunska literatura:

1. Puntarić D, Ropac D, Jurčev Savičević A. Javno zdravstvo. Zagreb: Medicinska naklada; 2014. (izabrana poglavlja)

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explain the basic concepts in the field of public health (health, health care system, health economy);
2. Identify risk factors that affect health in all groups of the community and analyze and link the relationship between them;
3. Describe the methods of social intervention in the field of social security, unemployment and the health;
4. Interpret the relationship between social needs and social protection, co-protection and self-protection;
5. Plan nursing procedures and measures in the preventive-medical and social-medical aspect at all levels of health care;
6. Assess the effects of nursing procedures and measures in preventive medical and socio-medical aspect;
7. Implement health education of individuals, large and small groups, and critically evaluate the health service and its work;