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Faculty of Postgraduate
Medical Studies
Master of Public
Health (MPH)
Qualification.
Master of public Health (MPH) is the basic
professional degree offered by the Northwest Public Health Research Center (St. Petersburg, Russia) and IUFS Faculty Postgraduate Medical Studies . The program ensures that
the graduate has a general understanding of the field of public health and
specific competence in a particular area of it such as epidemiology, health
policy and administration, environmental and occupational health, biomedical
statistics.
Admission Requirements
An applicant must have:
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at
least a baccalaureate degree from an accredited school, preferable with a major
in the biology, physiology, physical, social or environmental sciences.
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a personal statement describing his/her
interest in the program and plans after obtaining the degree;
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Strong
reference letters.
The total duration of the course is of 4
semesters.
In unusual cases, if a course requirement is
missing, permission may be given to take it in the first semester of residence.
Curriculum
for the Master Program in Public Health at the Northwest PublicHealthResearchCenter,
St.Petersburg, Russia.
Compulsory
modules.
1. Basics in Public Health
(Statistics/epidemiology/prevention)
Work Load
20 credits (ECTS)
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Objectives
The module aims to introduce the methods used in epidemiology and preventive
medicine. It also provides a foundation for further studies of these
disciplines. Teaching takes place in the course of 3-4 gatherings, one at the
start of the semester and one at the end (exam included). Teaching will be in
the form of lectures, exercises and group work, and parts of the syllabus and
tutoring will be given online.
In order to sign up for Public Health courses at a Master level, you will
need to have either completed the Bachelor Degree with health and/or social
sciences as your major, or to have a Bachelor Degree and two years of
relevant work experience as a health professional. A Bachelor Degree in
Health Administration will also qualify you for admission to this Master
Degree programme. In addition, you will need basic knowledge of statistics
and physiopathology.
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Contents
Statistics will include an introduction to the principles of survival
analysis and the most common multi-variable analyses in medical research
literature. The epidemiological syllabus will provide an introduction to (and
practice of) the use of epidemiological concepts, the charting of
epidemiological data, types of epidemiological concepts / clinical studies
and practice in how to read medical literature in a critical manner. The
tutoring of theories of prevention reviews the principles of primary and
secondary prophylaxis. Other related topics will also be
discussed.
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Form of teaching
The course has multiple teaching approaches, and active use of the Learning
Management System ClassFronter is mandatory.
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Assessment
2-3 home assignments, portfolio assessment and a final examination (home
assignment) of 3 days'' duration.
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Examination semester
Autumn
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Type of course
Theoretical
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Level of course/Year of study
First year at master''s level.
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Spss/pc
is required statistical software.
The teaching requires access to the internet.
Syllabus
MJ Campbell: �Statistics at square two�[BMJ] chapters 1-4.
James F. Jekel, David L. Katz, Joann G. Elmore: Epidemiology, Biostatistics,
and Preventive Medicine. Second edition 2001[ W.B. Saunder Company] chapters 1-6 in epidemiology and chapters
14-17 in
preventive medicine. Chapter 19 will serve as a supplement to the subjects
taught.
2. Health economics, health care management and leadership
Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)
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Objectives
The subject Organisation and Management will highlight the circumstances
determining approaches to staff and potential consequences. In one of the
gatherings, visiting lecturers will be discussing their practical managerial
experiences.
Required Previous Knowledge: Basic Public Health Module, (Statistics,
Epidemiology, and Prophylaxis) and a course in elementary statistics
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Contents
The course provides a general introduction to health care economy, with an
emphasis on alternative financing and utility and cost analyses. We will
discuss private versus public health care; hospital economy including price
per piece versus lump sum allocation; various kinds of economic analyses as
aids to align priorities and various means of assessing public health. Basic
organisation and management theories will be covered, and we will
particularly look into how these theories may be applied to health care
analysis. Research on working environment will be presented, and we will
discuss management problems in public service systems. Additionally, we will
make a point of utilizing the student''s experiences from practical
management.
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Form of teaching
Partly netbased by using ClassFronter. Three gatherings which are mandatory
consisting of lectures, seminars and group works.
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Assessment
Home assignment and portfolio assessment graded on the scale A-E.
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Examination semester
Autumn
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Type of course
Theoretical
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at Master�s level.
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Syllabus
Health
Economy:
Dolan, P &
Olsen, JA:
"Distributing health care: Economic and ethical issues". Oxford
University Press, Oxford,
2002
Theories of
Organization (216 pages):
Benneyan JC,
Lloyd RC, Plsek PE: "Statistical process control as a tool for research and
healthcare improvement". Qual Saf Health Care 2003; 12: 458-64
Berwick DM:"Public performance reports and the will to
change." JAMA 2002; 288: 1523-4
Bion JF,
Heffner JE:
"Inpatient safety I: Challenges in the care of the acutely ill".The
Lancet 2004; 363: 970-5
National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): "Health Care Criteria for Performance
Excellence
Baldrige
National Quality Program".Gaithersburg, Maryland(ss 37-50)
Kohn LT,
Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS: "Chapter 3: �Why do errors happen?� (pp 49-66)and chapter 8:
�Creating safety systems in health care organizations� (pp 155-83, 190-7) in
"To err is human. Building a safer health system" WashingtonDC: Institute of Medicine, National
Academy Press 1999
March JG,
Olsen JP.:
"Chapter 1: �Institutional perspectives on politics� (pp 1-20) in "Rediscovering
institutions". New York: The Free Press
1989
Marshall MN, Shekelle PG, Leatherman S, Brook RH: "The public release of performance data:
what do we expect to gain � a review of the evidence".JAMA 2000; 283:
1866-74
Marx DA,
Slonim AD:
"Assessing patient safety risk before the injury occurs: an introduction
to sociotechnical probabilistic risk modelling in health care". Qual Saf
Health Care 2003; 12 (Suppl 2): ii33-ii38
Nolan T: "System changes to improve patient
safety".
BMJ 2000; 320:
771-3
Pronovost PJ,
Nolan T, Zeger S, Miller M, Rubin H: "Inpatient safety II: How can clinicians
measure safety and quality in acute care?". The Lancet 2004; 363: 1061-67
Pronovost BJ,
Weast B, Holzmueller CG, Rosenstein BJ, Kidwell RP, Haller KB, Feroli ER, Sexton
JB, Rubin HR:
"Evaluation
of the culture of safety: survey of clinicians and managers in an academic
medical center". Qual Saf Health Care
2003; 12: 405-10
3. International and environmental
health
Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)
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Type of course
Theoretical and practical.
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Language of instruction
English
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Examination semester
Spring
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Objectives
The candidate should have an understanding of health problems in the world
and of the most important factors that create disease and health inequalities
(including services) among peoples. Poverty is a major determinant of health,
but also the physical (e.g., temperature, precipitation, air and water
supply, pollution) and biological environment (e.g., the food supply and its
safety, origin and transmission of some diseases) are of importance. A major
goal is to explore these aspects through international health and
environmental health perspectives. The course will also explore how the health
inequalities might be reversed/stopped and what national/international
organizations are providing resources and/or services to do so.
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Contents
The course will require presence on campus in two periods, one in January and
one in April. See time table. On-campus activities are to include
presentations, group discussions, overview lectures and planning of the
interim period, group activities and cooperation with supervisors. The course
will provide an overview of environmental health / medicine (EH) and international
health (IH) and explores the inter-relationships between health, poverty,
environment and development; demonstrates the need for interdisciplinary
co-operation; promotes student-centred, self-directed learning and critical
appraisal; and optimizes the use of the internet to achieve the stated
learning objectives.
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Form of teaching
The course has a variety of teaching and supervising methods; plenary,
lectures, group processes, internet methods etc.
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Exam and assessment
There will be interim assignments and group work based on scenarios. The
final home exam will be based on the different learning processes during the
course.
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Recommended reading/syllabus
Curriculum is based on information available on the internet. For basic
consepts in environmental health, the following textbook is recommended:
Basic Environmental Health
Annalee Yassi, Tord Kjellstrøm, Theo de Kok, Tee L. Guidotti
Oxford University Press 2001
RA565. B376 2001
615.9`02-dc21 00-032400
ISBN 0-19-513558-x
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4. Philosophy
of science and ethics
Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)
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Type of course
Theoretical and practical.
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Examination semester
Spring
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Objectives
After finishing this course, the students should a) be able to identify,
describe, reflect on and analyse theoretical aspects and problems of research
on public health in regards to theoretical science and b) be able to
recognise strengths and weaknesses in their own projects.
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Contents
Teaching is partly carried out in gatherings and partly in ClassFronter (chat
rooms and file exchange). The module is longitudinal, and during the
semester, there will be two reunions, each lasting two days.
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Form of teaching
The course has multiple teaching approaches
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Exam and assessment
In addition to the evaluation of compulsory written papers to be handed in or
of documented participation in discussion groups (in ClassFronter),
evaluation will mainly be based on a written essay (under academic
supervision) on a chosen topic.
Extent: 3000-4000 words.
Graded A-F.
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5. Clinical
epidemiology and decision analysis
Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)
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Type of course
Theoretical and practical.
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Examination semester
Spring
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Objectives
Having completed this course, the students will be able to assess and apply
medical tests for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. They should take a
rational stance towards the ambiguity of medical decisions, and aim for a
critical approach to medical documentation.
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Contents
The course provides an introduction to decision analysis applied to medical
questions. Topics will be probability calculation, the concept of normality,
the technical properties of tests, test properties and diagnostic properties.
Problems regarding multi-testing and mutual dependency of tests are discussed
as well as inter-observer and intra-observer agreements. Kappa statistics are
explained and likelihood ratio is applied on strata of the separator variable.
Optimal test values and the effect of case-mix on test properties are
discussed. Furthermore, the course discusses documentation basis and various
methods for evaluating medical intervention. Various approaches to systematic
reviews of medical documentation will also be presented. The students will
practice on medical Internet databases such as the Cochrane Library.
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Form of teaching
To a large extent, teaching will through the Learning Management System
ClassFronter. Three gatherings on campus, where teachers and students attend
will be organized. Each gathering lasts for 2 or 3 days. Teaching will take
the form of lectures, group work and seminars, and demand a large degree of
activity and participation from the students. During the periods between
gatherings, the students will be working via ClassFronter on text book
material or evaluating articles and solving tasks. Discussion groups will be
organised and to each of them, a teacher will be assigned. Much of the
syllabus will be distributed to the students by their teachers over the
Internet. Some material must be searched for by the students themselves, for
instance in medical databases.
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Exam and assessment
At the end of the course students will work on a written home assignment. In
addition, two home assignments will be given during the period between the
gatherings, assignments which the students must hand in within given
deadlines and must pass in order to continue the course. The home assignments
may demand that a task be solved by means of calculation and assessment of
the results, or that literature be assessed, or an essay must be written. The
students will be given a grade (A-F) and concise written feedback about their
written assignments. Moreover, active participation in discussion groups is
required in the intervening period. All assignments are considered part of
the exam and need to be answered individually. A single grade (A-F) will be
given for the entire course on basis of the submitted three home assignments,
for which an estimate of the extent and complexity of the undertaken tasks
will be taken into consideration.
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Recommended reading/syllabus
Pensumbok:
David L. Sacket, R. Brian Haynes, Gordon H. Guyatt, Peter Tugwell: Clinical
epidemiology. A basic science for clinical medicine. Little, Brown and
Company, 1991, second edition, 441 sider. ISBN 0-316-76599-6
David L. Sacket, W Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, R. Brian Haynes:
Evidence-based Medicine. How to practice and teach EBM. Churchill
Livingstone,1997, 250 sider.
ISBN 0-443-05686-2.
Myriam Hunink, Paul Glasziou, Joanna Siegel, Jane Weeks, Joseph Pliskin,
Arthur Elstein, Milton Weinstein: Decision making in health and medicine. Integrating evidence and values. Cambrige University Press, 2003, 388
sider, ISBN 0-521-77029-7.
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6. Methods
in epidemiology
Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)
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Type of course
Theoretical and practical.
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Examination semester
Spring
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Objectives
The course aims to give students insight into how to plan, sources of error
(bias or skewness) that can be controlled through design and practical
implementation of case-control studies, cross-section studies, cohort studies
and randomised controlled trial (RCT).
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Contents
The three most important methods used for epidemiological studies will be
reviewed, i.e. cross-section studies, cohort and case-control studies and
well as randomised controlled tests (RCT), and the strong and week points of
such studies will be looked into. Furthermore, lectures will discuss how to
dimension studies (amplitude calculations), formal requirements according to
the Act on Biographical Data and ethics committees. Approaches to controlled
clinical tests and intervention. Further, sources of error that can be controlled
through design, skewness of selection and information will be investigated,
as well as validation studies and reliability will be emphasised as well as
the consequences of various kinds of flaws for further studies. Finally, we
deal with practical implementation phasing based on the institute''s
extensive experience dealing with the three above mentioned types of studies.
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Form of teaching
The course has multiple teaching approaches
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Exam and assessment
Home assignment, assessed with grades A-F.
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Recommended reading/syllabus
Armstrong BK, White E, Saracci R. Principles of exposure measurement in
epidemiology. Monograpgs in epi biostat 21; Oxford
University press; Oxford 1921. (ISBN 0-19-262020-7)
Articles are copied and delivered, or available on the Internet.
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8. Epidemiology of cronical
diseases
Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)
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Contents
The course is organised as three gatherings, each lasting 3 days with at
least one intervening week. Following main topics are taught: Descriptive
Epidemiology, Analytic Epidemiology, and Preventive measures to improve
health, primarily focussing on the epidemology of diabetes, cancer,
psychiatric illnesses, stroke and cardiac infarction.
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Assessment
Two written, individual papers which will be evaluated as a whole on a scale
of A-F.
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Examination semester
Autumn
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Type of course
Theoretical
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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9. Master
thesis in Public Health
Work Load
20 credits (ECTS)
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Type of course
Theoretical and practical.
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Examination semester
Autumn, Spring
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Objectives
The independent Master Degree Thesis is compulsory and amounts to 30 credits.
Throughout the thesis, the student should demonstrate mastery of relevant
methods that have been presented during the studies, as well as
understanding, reflection and maturity. Two students may apply to work
together on a thesis. They will then need to specify the scope of each
person''s contribution and effort.
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Contents
Guidelines for how to write a Master Degree Thesis will be elaborated during
the course. The student and his/her supervisor will need to enter into a
contractual arrangement of supervision, after the proposed protocol, or
project description has been approved.
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Form of teaching
The course has multiple teaching approaches
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Exam and assessment
Written Master Degree Thesis
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Recommended reading/syllabus
Available on request
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10.
Medical sociology
Work Load
5 credits (ECTS)
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Objectives
This course is about the cultural and social aspects of a) health and
illness, and b) the medical enterprise (the system, the knowledge, the
practise and the professions); its design, development, role, functions, and
place in contemporary society. After the course, the candidates are supposed to
understand the cultural aspects of health, illness and the medical
enterprise, the main aspects the modern health service, its major challenges,
the driving forces behind its development, and main features of the attempted
solutions.
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Contents
Sociological perspectives on health, illness, medical knowledge and medical
practice.- The modern health service: developments, dilemmas and challenges
(health inequalities, medicalisation, priority issues, etc.), seen in a
cultural, historical and global perspective.- New roles for health
professionals and patients.- Cultural implications of medical knowledge and
practice.- Expansion of the jurisdiction of the health professions.- Driving
forces in the development of our health concepts. - Health policy and health services
management.
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Form of teaching
Lectures, video-presentations and organised group sessions during two 3 day
long seminars, in addition to use of the Learning Management System
ClassFronter.
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Assessment
Home assignment (a written essay) over two weeks, on a chosen topic.
Evaluation is graded on a A-E scale, and F is Failed. Students must have
delivered, and passed, a compulsory written paper before the home assignment.
This paper can be written alone or in groups , and is to be delivered via
ClassFronter.
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Examination semester
Autumn
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Type of course
Theoretical
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Recommended reading/syllabus
Elliott, Carl (2003): Better than well. American medicine meets American
dream (kap. 3, s. 54-76). W.W.Norton & Company: New York(23 sider).*
Freidson, Eliot (1970): Profession of medicine (kap. 8, 10 og 12). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press(79
sider).
Førde, Olav Helge (1998): Is imposing risk awareness cultural imperialism? Soc Sci Med 47: 1155-59 (5 sider).
Lawton, Julia (2003): Lay experiences of health and illness: past research
and future agendas. Sociology of health & illness 25
(issue 3): 23-40 (17 sider). Fulltekst.
Moynihan, Ray, Iona Heath and David Henry
(2002): Selling sickness: The pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering.
BMJ 324 (issue 7342): 886-891 (5 sider). Fulltekst.
Nettleton, Sarah (1995): The sociology of health and illness (kap. 1 og 2, s.
1-35). Cambridge:
Polity Press (35 sider).
Payer, Lynn
(1992): Disease-Mongers: How doctors, drug companies, and insurers are making
you feel sick (kap. 1, s. 3-35). John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
(33 sider).
Potts, Annie; Nicola Gavey; Victoria M Grace og
Tiina Vares (2003): The downside of Viagra: women''s experiences and
concerns. Sociology of health & illness 25 (issue 7): 697-719 (23 sider).
Fulltekst.
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11. Health technology
assessment
Work Load
5 credits (ECTS)
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Type of course
Theoretical
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Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level.
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Examination semester
Spring
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Objectives
The course Health technology assessment will give students an introduction to
the principles of evidence based medicine. Students will learn how to
identify, evaluate and synthesise relevant documentation. There will be a
special focus on pharmaceuticals, procedures, diagnostics and screening. In
addition students will be introduced to the principles of economic
evaluation, ethical and juridical consequences.
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Contents
The course in health technology assessment will give students the basic
principles of systematic reviews: problem formulation, literature search,
critical assessment of study quality and grading of the evidence to combine
results from individual studies into an overall synthesis of research findings.
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Form of teaching
The course will be given as lectures, self study and projects. There will be
2 modules each of 4 days for students and teachers to meet. The course will
be consist of ordinary lectures, exercises and discussion groups. In addition
there will be web-based discussion groups between modules.
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Coursework requirements
Compulsory plenaries. Assignments.
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Exam and assessment
Examination will be a home-based project graded at the scale A-F. During the
course students have to deliver a home-based project in groups of 2-3
persons, which is evaluated passed/ not passed.
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Elective modules.
At least 3 options
are to be selected by a student.
1. Injury and abuse prevention.
2. Immunisation (Ethics, Effectiveness,
Organisation).
3. Occupational Health and Safety.
4. Addictive behaviour and mental health
5. Health Promotion
6. Community based Public Health
Strategies and Initiatives
7. Environmental
toxicology
For More Information and Admission :
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St.Petersburg, Russia
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