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Health Promotion-Disease Prevention-Community Medicine

Semester 7th ()

Code MED_751

Hours Teaching 25 hours, Laboratory 0 hours, Tutorial 0 hours , Clinical Training 0 hours (per week)

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Description

i. Basic Principles of Preventive Medicine

ii. Prevention levels

iii. Primary and secondary prevention

iv. Systematic screening

v. Evaluation of diagnostic tests, implementation in Preventive Medicine

vi. Prevention of heart disease, malignant neoplasia and other chronic diseases in the community

vii. Control of infectious diseases in the community

viii. Epidemiological Surveillance

ix. Basic Principles of Health Promotion

x. Health Promotion Programs

xi. Promoting Health in the community, workplace, school

xii. Public health

xiii. Health Systems and Health Policies

Scope

The course is the main introductory course in the concepts of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Community Medicine.

The subject matter of the course is to introduce students to the basic principles of preventive medicine, to make them understand the levels of prevention, i.e. primary and secondary levels. The value of systematic screening and of diagnostic tests are analyzed with emphasis on its implementation regarding Preventive Medicine. Methods to prevent heart disease and malignant neoplasms in the community are shown and discussed.

The methods of infectious diseases control in the Community and the methodology of epidemiological observation are shown and analyzed.

The subject matter of the course includes furthermore basic principles of Health Promotion, Organization and Evaluation of Health Promotion programs, focusing on Health Promotion in the community, at work and at school.

Finally, part of the subject matter of the course is the introduction in concepts of Public Health, Health Systems and Health Policies.

 

By the end of this course the student will be able to :

  • understand the principles of Preventive Medicine

  • gain knowledge about the levels of prevention

  • gain knowledge about diagnostic tests and when they should be used in the context of screening

  • gain knowledge of the methods of preventing heart disease, malignant neoplasms and other chronic diseases in the community

  • use the techniques and methods of epidemiological observation

  • organize Health Promotion programs in the community, at workplace, in schools and evaluate them

  • understand the concept of Public Health, the way in which Health Systems are operated and organized, and the Health Policy Strategies

Reading Material

  1. M. Arvanitidou Vagiona. Social and Preventive Medicine. University Press, Thessaloniki 2009.

  2. D. Trichopoulos, V. Kalapothaki, E. Petridou. Preventive Medicine & Public Health. ΖEΤΑ Pub., Athens 2000

  3. Notes of lecturers. A. Vandarakis, E. Gerastopoulou, M. Leotsinidis