VLVZ9X1p Public Health - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavlína Kaňová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Michal Koščík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Kräuff Rainer Schwanhaeuser Wulff, MBA, Ph.D. et Ph.D., M.A. (lecturer)
Zdeňka Jochová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavlína Kaňová, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavlína Kaňová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Mon 18. 2. 7:30–9:30 I.CHK N01001, Tue 19. 2. 7:00–9:00 I.CHK N01001, Wed 20. 2. 8:00–10:00 I.CHK N01001
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
VLVZ9X1p/VLA: Tue 19. 2. 8:00–9:40 KOM 409, 10:00–12:00 KOM 409, Thu 21. 2. 10:00–12:00 KOM 409
Prerequisites
( VLFA0822p Pharmacology II - L || VLFA0722p Pharmacology - L ) && VSSL051p Social Medicine - lecture
Prerequisites according to the MU study and examination regulations.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course in Health Care and Policy introduces the students to the analysis of health care systems, managerial and policy issues and techniques for decision-making in health care. The subjects covered include health services research, health policy, health economics, and law.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course student should be able to:
- describe the term Public Health, describe theoretical framework and practice of Public Health;
- identify managerial and policy issues and techniques for decision-making in health care;
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a diverse range of global and national health policies, including current and emerging trends and also of disciplines relevant to the study of health policy, planning and financing (epidemiology, health economic and other social sciences);
- apply his knowledge and skills using a multidisciplinary approach to formulate and evaluate health policies and plans.
Syllabus
  • PUBLIC HEALTH:
  • 1. Information on the course Public Health. Introduction to public health as a subject for teaching, research and healthcare practice area.
  • 2. Methods and research capabilities in the field of public health.
  • 3. Ethical issues in public health and their possible solutions.
  • 4. Causes of increasing health care spending.
  • 5. Transformation of health.
  • 7. Transit demography, epidemiological transformation and health needs.
  • 8. Information base for the description and evaluation of public health.
  • 9. Medical informatics and its application.
  • 10. Health economics. The concept, theoretical background, main areas of interest (subjects), health economics
  • 11. The market and health care.
  • 12. Types of health systems in the world, their strengths and weaknesses. International comparisons, strengths and weaknesses.
  • 13. Healthcare management, its development, benefits and pitfalls. Economic tools for managing healthcare systems.
  • 14. Benefits and risks of economic analysis, waste in health care.
  • 15. Medical insurance (public health insurance, private health insurance).
  • 16. Healthcare financing (sources of finance, structure of cash expenditure on health care reimbursement forms).
  • 17. Effectiveness and efficiency, explanation of terms, their measurement and evaluation.
  • 18. Accessibility of health care services.
  • 19. The quality of health care, definitions, characteristics, possibilities for evaluation.
  • 20. Evaluation of health care services (importance and evaluation methods, used indicators and their interpretation).
  • 21. Medical needs (the needs, requirements and consumption of services).
  • 22. Management theory and management of medical facilities.
  • 23. Prevention and its obstacles (motivation to prevent, categorization prevention, prevention of barriers).
  • 24. Primary care and self-care.
  • 25. Medical education; role, importance and types of health literacy.
  • 26. Educational program (preparation, implementation, evaluation).
  • 27. Forms of decentralization.
  • 28. Privatization of health care facilities.
  • 29. Cumulative assessment of the activities of the healthcare system (performance - responsiveness, decent financing, stewardship, methodology, interpretation).
  • 30. The role of the state in health care.
  • 31. The government protecting the public health.
  • 32. Healthcare policy (term, focus, tools and healthcare policy goals). Regionalization and decentralization.
  • 33. The European healthcare policy (source and basis of European healthcare policy, program WHO Health 2020).
  • 34. Current issues in healthcare development.
  • MEDICAL LAW AND HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT:
  • 1. Management theory and management of healthcare facilities.
  • 2. State administration and local government in healthcare. Estates chamber, origin and historical development, current role. The basic rules of professional conduct, rights and obligations of members of the ČLK (Czech Medical Chamber).
  • 3. The role of law in health care; basic legal standards in health care.
  • 4. The rights and duties of citizens in health care (citizens' rights, patient rights, patient's right to information).
  • 5. The provider of health care services, operating conditions; standardization and accreditation of health care providers; system providers, health care services, types and forms of health care.
  • 6. The system of medical professions, the basic assumptions practice medicine; medical specialized education, lifelong learning for physicians.
  • 7. Basic duties of health care professionals.
  • 8. Lex artis (state of the art), definition, legal basis for liability.
  • 9. Informed consent for medical procedures, denial of medical care, requirements for a negative reverse (denial of health care).
  • 10. Legal liability in health care (civil liability of health care providers; criminal liability of doctors, the disciplinary responsibility of a doctor, offenses and administrative violations in health care)
Literature
    required literature
  • POVINNÁ LITERATURA
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  • HOLČÍK, Jan. Systém péče o zdraví a zdravotní gramotnost. 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010. 293 s. Škola a zdraví pro 21. století. ISBN 978-80-210-5239-0.
  • ŽÁČEK, A. a J. HOLČÍK. Sociální lékařství II, Úvod do veřejného zdravotnictví. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1992. 130 s. ISBN 80-210-0375-8.
  • HOLČÍK, Jan, Adolf ŽÁČEK a Ilona KOUPILOVÁ. Sociální lékařství. 3. nezměn. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006. 137 s. ISBN 80-210-3954-X.
  • TĚŠINOVÁ, Jolana, Roman ŽĎÁREK a Radek POLICAR. Medicínské právo. Vyd. 1. V Praze: C.H.Beck, 2011. xxxiii, 41. ISBN 9788074000508
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  • DOPORUČENÁ LITERATURA
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  • Key concepts in public health. Edited by Frances Wilson - Mzwandile Mabhala. 1st ed. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2009. xiii, 312. ISBN 978-1-4129-4880-7
  • MAAYTOVÁ, Alena. Otázky ekonomiky zdravotnictví s ohledem na zvyšování efektivnosti. 1. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2012. 164 s. ISBN 9788073579128
  • DUDOVÁ, Jana. Právo na ochranu veřejného zdraví. Ochrana veřejného zdraví před rizikovými faktory venkovního prostředí. 1. vyd. Praha: LINDE Praha, a.s., 2011. 420 s. 899. publ. ISBN 978-80-7201-854-3.
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    recommended literature
  • REQUIRED LITERATURE
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  • 1. Bonita R, Beaglehole R, Kjellström: Basic epidemiology. 2nd edition. Geneva - Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2006. pp 39-60, 99-114, 165-177.
  • 2. Stone DB, Armstrong WR, Macrina DM, Pankau JW: Introduction to epidemiology. Dubuque, IA - USA: Brown & Benchmark Publishers; 1996. pp 1-10, 163-190.
  • 3. Farmer R, Lawrenson R, Miller D: Epidemiology and public health medicine. 5th edition. Oxford - U.K.: Blackwell Publishing; 2004. pp 143-177.
  • 4. Varkey P: Mayo clinic preventive medicine and public health board review. Edited by Prathibha Varkey. New York - United States: Mayo Clinic Scientific Press - Oxford University Press; 2010. pp 253-299.
  • 5. Study material for public health and healthcare administration (20 chapters / questions) CAN BE BORROWED at the Department of Public Health A21, office 321. Students MUST return it back the day of examination in good condition.
  • The study material is part of the Public Health State Examination Questions (Group C)
  • 6. Seminar papers (Forty-two) in the subject’s vault VLVZ9X1c - Public Health State Examination Questions (Group D).
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  • RECOMMENDED LITERATURE
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Teaching methods

Lectures.

Reading and studying ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE.

For those who will have to write research projects and seminar papers during third, fourth and fifth year, it is strongly recommended to enrol the following courses:

 VSIL021 - Information literacy - (3 credits) - e-learning.
 VSKP041 - A course of working with information sources and tools (4 credits).

Assessment methods
1.   It will be required to successfully complete the prerequisite subjects and to have obtained the subjectʼs credit - VLVZ9X1c.


*** This subject is part of the Public Health State Examination ***
  See VLZP11XX - Public Health State Examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
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