COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC HEALTH

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TSS 2014 PUBLIC HEALTH ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Medical Documentation and Secretariat

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AYLA AÇIKGÖZ

Offered to

Medical Documentation and Secretariat

Course Objective

The purpose of this course, health technicians, to know the relationship between health and society, the social dimension of health problems to develop and assess the knowledge of health knows about

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the historical process of public health
2   Be able to to define the concept of public health and task
3   To define the the health services in Turkey
4   To define the health organizations in Turkey
5   Protection of the enviroment may explain
6   Be able to describe the reproductive health
7   To explain the traditional family planning methods
8   To explain modern family planning methods
9   To explain sexually transmitted diseases and the preventive
10   Definitions and prevention of infectious diseases can explain the way
11   Definions and prevention of infectious diseases can explain the way
12   To define and explain the vaccine immunization schedule

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, presentation of the syllabus
2 The historical process of Public Health
3 What is Public Health What are the duties of public health
4 Health systems
5 How is the health organization in Turkey
6 Concept of health and disease, personal hygiene, environmental health and protection
7 Child health
8 Midterm exam
9 Women's health
10 Reproductive health, Family planning methods
11 Infectious diseases epidemiology
12 sexually transmitted diseases, immunization
13 Chronic diseases epidemiology
14 Elderly Health

Recomended or Required Reading


1-Public health basics: Laughing O, Akin L. (2012) Public health basics
Hacettepe University Press, Ankara
2-Turkey Public Health Agency web page
3-Ministry of Health Library Web page
4- Aksakoğlu G. Combating Infectious Diseases. DEU publication (Third Article) 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instructor's lecture presentations, group work, brainstorming with question-answer technique

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 AS ArasınavTeo
2 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE AS * 0.50 + FN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) AS * 0.50 + BUT * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

midterm exam theoretical (%50)+final theoretical(50)+condition examination

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course is done within the framework of SHMYO Education and Examination Rules of
Practice and evaluated

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Ayla AÇIKGÖZ
e-mail: ayla.acikgoz@deu.edu.tr
tel:0232 4124738

Office Hours

Wednesday: 13:00 - 14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.112
LO.2
LO.3
LO.4
LO.5
LO.6
LO.75
LO.84
LO.9
LO.10
LO.11
LO.12

CONTACT INFORMATION
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