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3. 1. 5. Health promotion, Health prevention, Health economics
First Clinical Year, only winter term, Module offering 5x per year
ECTS-Credits: 3
Duration: 2 weeks
Language of Instruction: German
- Content:
- Public Health: Introduction to health systems; principles and structure of the German health system; global perspectives of health and prevention
- General Medicine: principles of health promotion and prevention, risk- and protection factors; health indicators and objectives; family medicine and nutrition; quality management
- Sports medicine: Principles of exercise programs for general fitness and the prevention of cardio-vascular diseases; Overview on acute high altitude illnesses .
- Health economics: definition of terms, needs and demand assessment, methods of economic evaluation, principles and basics of health financing, Health insurance system
- Aims:
- students will be able:
- to explain ethical and political principles of a health system
- to describe organisational and legal principles
- to explain the structure of the German health system, the main stakeholders and legal bodies
- to name global health indicators and milestones of international health policy
- students will be able:
- To explain primary, secondary prevention, prevention programmes incl.immunization
- To describe the main preventable diseases,
- To explain the structure and main features of health promotion programmes, incl. community participation
- To conduct preventive advisory sessions
- To explain evidence based preventive medicine, risk assessment and tests
- To explain the problems of screening programmes
- To explain the principles of evaluation and quality management
- To name quality indicators and describe quality circles
- students will be able:
- To distinguish between efficacy and efficiency, needs and demand
- To name the main determinants of demand for health services
- To explain methods of cost -effectiveness assessment
- To describe methods of economic evaluation
- To explain the principle of health financing
- To describe the principles of health insurance system
- students will be able:
- To explain the role of physical exercises for prevention of cardio-vascular diseases and general health
- To define exercise intensities based on heart rates
- To explain determinants and preventive measures of high altitude illnesses
- students will be able:
- Prerequisites: 5. or 6. semester of medical studies
- Teaching methods: presentations, tutored group work, plenary discussions, discussion groups, panel discussion; individual reading;
- Examination /Assessment methods: MC- questionnaire
- Recommended reading:
- Walter U , Schwarz F W : Prävention: Institutionen und Strukturen, in F W Schwartz, Public Health- Gesundheit und Gesundheitswissen, Urban &Fischer, 2. Auflage 2003, .254-268. 2003
- Marx M, Migration und Mobilität als Phänomen der Globalisierung, in O Razum (Hrsg), Globalisierung-Gerechtigkeit-Gesundheit, Einführung in International Public Health, Huber Verlag, 95-107. 2006
- Bärtsch P: Höhenkrankheiten. Dtsch Z Sportmed. 50:396-400,2000
- Bärtsch P: Wieviel Laktat braucht die Gesundheit? Dtsch Z Sportmed. 55:89; 2004