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Unit 1: Introduction to Public Health (Basic concepts and history within the context of “Control of communicable diseases”, “Community oriented primary care”, “Maternal and child health care”): Weeks: 1-5
1- Cognitive outcomes:
-Defines, recognizes, remembers,
-Understands, exemplifies, express similarities and differences
-Applies or uses”
2- Affective outcomes: Attends and actively participates the lectures, ask questions, answer questions, submits related assignments or homeworks, volunteers to learn and share more on the related issues, try or experiment to use public health perspective in discussions, questions, answers, assignments, and in daily activities.
Regarding basic concepts of Public Health: “Public Health and Public Health Perspective”, “Mission of Public Health”, “Aspirations, strategies, spirits of Public Health”, “Core disciplines, functions, and essential services of public health”, “Prevention and types of preventive measures: primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary prevention”, “ Health Policy Framework”, “Measures of diseases frequency: proportion, rate, ratio and their types regarding being crude or adjusted”, “Population health status indicators: Life expectancy, morbidity (incidence, prevalence), mortality, infant mortality, maternal mortality, “Chain of infection”, “Types of the measures to control communicable diseases”, “Community oriented primary care”, “Types of measures to improve maternal and child health care”, “Diseases of atherosclerosis, cancer, myocardial infarction, smallpox, cholera, covid-19, childhood communicable diseases that can be prevented by vaccinations”, “Expanded program of immunization”, “Breastfeeding”, “Epidemiologic transition”
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1-9
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1,2,3,4,6,8,9
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B,G,H
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Unit 2: Control of Addictive Substances at the individual and population level (Tobacco as the main focus, and opioids, synthetic cannabinoids – bonzai, etc.): Weeks:6-10
1- Cognitive outcomes:
-Defines, recognizes, remembers,
-Understands, exemplifies, express similarities and differences
-Applies or uses
-Explains the relationships
2- Affective outcomes: Attends and actively participates the lectures, ask questions, answer questions, submits related assignments or homework, volunteers to learn and share more on the related issues, try or experiment to use public health perspective in discussions, questions, answers, assignments, and in daily activities.
Regarding following concepts, conditions, processes, events, facts: Neurobiology and psychology of addiction, Substance use disorder, Tobacco products, tobacco smoke, secondhand smoke, thirdhand smoke, impact of tobacco use and passive smoking on individual and population health, Benefits of and counselling on tobacco cessation. Stages of change, Factors determining tobacco use trend and prevalence, Global tobacco control, WHO-FCTC, Tobacco Control: Public Health Strategies versus Tobacco Industry Strategies, International treaties and initiatives in tobacco control, Historic lawsuits in tobacco control,
Opioid addiction epidemic and its overdose deaths in the US, Bonzai epidemic of Turkey.
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1-9
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1,2,3,4,8,9
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B,G,H
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Unit 3: Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity (Metabolic Syndrome): Weeks: 11-13
1- Cognitive outcomes:
-Defines, recognizes, remembers,
-Understands, exemplifies, express similarities and differences
-Applies or uses
-Explains the relationships
2- Affective outcomes: Attends and actively participates the lectures, ask questions, answer questions, submits related assignments or homework, volunteers to learn and share more on the related issues, try or experiment to use public health perspective in discussions, questions, answers, assignments, and in daily activities.
Regarding following concepts, conditions, processes, events, facts: Obesity, Heart disease, Cancer, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, fatty liver, hyperinsulinemia, Trans fat and its history, Components of metabolic syndrome, Factors determining the metabolic syndrome and its epidemic, Industry and Chronic non-communicable pandemic relationship, Impact of power on health policies. Control of Chronic non-communicable diseases strategies at the individual and population level.
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1-9
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1,2,3,4,6,8,9
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B,G,H
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Unit 4: Epidemiological Research and Evidence-based practice and quaternary prevention: Weeks:15-16
1- Cognitive outcomes:
-Defines, recognizes, remembers,
-Understands, exemplifies, express similarities and differences
-Applies or uses
-Explains the relationships
2- Affective outcomes: Attends and actively participates the lectures, ask questions, answer questions, submits related assignments or homework, volunteers to learn and share more on the related issues, try or experiment to use public health perspective in discussions, questions, answers, assignments, and in daily activities.
Regarding following concepts, conditions, processes, events, facts: Evidence based practice and its history, evidence, disease-oriented evidence, patient-oriented evidence that matters, number needed to treat, number needed to harm, quaternary prevention and evidence-based practice relationship, epidemiological research and evidence, types of epidemiological research, retrospective, prospective approaches, observational (case-control, cohort, cross-sectional) studies, and interventional studies (clinical trials), risk, relative risk, odds ratio.
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1-9
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1,2,3,4,6,8,9
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B,G,H
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