COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMMUNITY HEALTH 401

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TSL 4606 COMMUNITY HEALTH 401 COMPULSORY 9

Offered By

Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HATICE ŞIMŞEK KESKIN

Offered to

Medicine

Course Objective

The aim of this internship is to teach that the content of health services is treating patients, preventing disease, promoting health with equality and to practice with this notion. It is designed to understand the factors which have negative effects on public health. It is intended to enable the students to evaluate the biologic, psychological, social and cultural components of health, evaluate the individual with her/his environment and monitor and to teach the knowledge and skills to define the solutions to health problems using epidemiologic methods.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Comprehend the life style, work life genetic, nutritional, demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural determinants of health and disease in the population.
2   Comprehend that health services should be provided for the healthy individuals primarily.
3   Understand the organizational principals of health systems.
4   Understand the relationship between primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health care.
5   Realize the principals, application and planning of primary health care.
6   Understand the duty, responsibility and authority of the primary health care personnel and learn to work as a team member.
7   Learn the importance of health education and health promotion of the public and to be able to implement.
8   Comprehend the importance of in service training and supervision and to be able to apply.
9   Gain knowledge of management and the records of a health center.
10   Learn how the data is collected and statistically analyzed in health facilities.
11   Have an understanding of the collaboration of public and private institutions in health.
12   Learn the skills to determine the health needs, develop solutions and apply.
13   Gain skills for decision making by using epidemiologic, demographic, national and local surveillance data.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Medical ethics TOYS - Management Course Community Health Center visit
2 Organizational principals of health systems in Turkey and the world Community Health Center visit
3 Primary healthcare applications Smoking Cessation Center visit
4 Outbreak investigation Tobacco epidemic Approach for smoking cessation Tb control center visit
5 Research planning-BAK project Chronic diseases and community health Vocational health Tb control center visit Reproductive health Environmental health
6 Izmir Medical Chamber visit Oral health Ethics in primary care
7 Personnel management Provincial Health Directorate visit
8 Assessment of research reports

Recomended or Required Reading

Saglik Ocagi Yonetimi, Oztek Z., Eren N., 1996
Halk Sagligi Temel Bilgiler, Bertan M., Guler C., 1995
Saglik Hizmetlerinde Yonetim, Benli D., Ozalp H., 1997
Halk Sağlığı, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006
Epidemiology, Gordis L, 2004
Medical Epidemiology, Greenberg RS, Daniels SR, Flanders WD, Eley JW, Borin JR, 1996.
Sağlıkta Araştırma ve Çözümleme, Aksakoğlu G, DEÜ Rektörlük Basımevi, 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures
Institution visits (Izmir Medical Chamber, Provincial Health Directorate, Tb control center, Smoking Cessation Center)
Community Health Center Rotation
Small group sessions
Visual studies
Professional values and ethics applications

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

During the internship period the assessment are based on competency and evaluated as satisfactory/not satisfactory

DEUMF Rules and Regulations
Article 24
(4) In the 6th year the internships are evaluated as satisfactory/not satisfactory. In order to be qualified as satisfactory he/she has to attend 90% of the related clinical and laboratory applications, complete night duties and all the other responsibilities depicted in the curriculum and have all these registered in his/her log-book. In case of failure the rotation is repeated.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 28 1 28
Community Health Center Rotation 25 6 150
Institution visits 10 2 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 8 2 16
Preparing group assignment 3 4 12
Preparing presentations 3 3 9
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 235

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1555
LO.25
LO.355
LO.45
LO.555
LO.65
LO.7555
LO.855
LO.9555
LO.1055
LO.115
LO.1255555
LO.1355555

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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