Public Health currently constitutes one of the most important professional fields within the sciences.

health, as is the case of the Degree in Pharmacy/Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

This subject interrelates and completes the knowledge that the Graduate in Pharmacy/Human Nutrition and Dietetics acquires throughout the course degree, offering an overview of the most important and current problems within the field of health, in addition to make known tools for their research.

- Develop communication and information skills, both oral and written, to deal with patients and users of the center where you carry out your professional activity. Promote work and collaboration skills in teams multidisciplinary and those related to other health professionals. Recognize your own limitations and need to maintain and update professional competence, paying special importance to self-learning of new knowledge based on available scientific evidence.

- Define the concepts of Health and Public Health and establish the functions of the Graduate in /Human Nutrition and Dietetics in Public Health.

- Know the epidemiology and general prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and study the most important diseases in our environment.

- Know the main health problems caused by lifestyle and different stages of life.

- Study the importance, objectives, programs, agents and methods of health education and develop health education programs for the most important health problems in our environment, as well as providing advice pharmacist for them.

- Know the methods used for research in public health and for the study of human populations.

HEALTH

Health concept. Determinants of health.

PUBLIC HEALTH

History of Public Health. Public health. Public Health Strategies.

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Epidemiology and general prevention of communicable diseases. Communicable diseases of importance in

present.

NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Epidemiology and general prevention of non-communicable diseases. non-communicable diseases

importance today.

LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH

Nutrition. Physical exercise. Tobacco. Alcohol.

HEALTH EDUCATION

Importance. Goals. Programs. Agents. Methods. Development of a Health Education Program. Advice

pharmacist.

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY

Epidemiology: Description of the disease situation. Descriptive studies. Observational analytical studies. Causality and causality criteria. Pharmacoepidemiology.

Demographics: Static demographics. Dynamic demographics.

The subject will be developed in different Master-type sessions during which the relative contents will be seen Health, Public Health, Communicable and non-communicable diseases and Lifestyle and health. In the Classroom practices will talk about Epidemiology and Demography and exercises will be proposed and carried out. In the Practices of computer, through group work, a health education program will be planned for a health problem,for which a pharmaceutical Council will also be developed and will be presented later.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Multiple-Choice Test (%): 70
  • Team projects (problem solving, project design)) (%): 25
  • Others: Tasks (%): 5

The evaluation of the subject will be done according to the following:



Continuous assessment:

- 1.5 points: Delivery of Health Education Program Task and Presentation, Participation and Attendance (Justification health problem)

- 1 point: Realization, Presentation, Participation and Assistance Pharmaceutical Council

- 0.5 points: Search for information (Tasks), Attitude, Participation

- 7 points: Exam: 70 multiple choice questions (Correct: 0.1 points; Incorrect: -0.025 points; In white: 0 points)

. 3.5 points on the exam: minimum to pass the subject

. 5 points in total: minimum to pass the subject

Resignation from the call will result in the qualification of Not Presented or Not Presented, for this, it will be enough to not take the subject exam.



Final evaluation:

Students may waive continuous evaluation and will have the right to be evaluated through the evaluation system, final evaluation. To do so, you must present your resignation in writing to the teaching staff responsible for the subject within the deadlines established by current regulations. The choice of the final system will be effective for both calls (ordinary and extraordinary).

- Exam:

. 7 points: 70 multiple choice questions (Correct: 0.1 points; Incorrect: -0.025 points; In

white: 0 points)

. 3 points: 3 Questions to develop: 1 point each question

. 5 points in total: minimum to pass the subject

Resignation from the call will result in the qualification of Not Presented or Not Presented, for this, it will be enough to not take the subject exam.

The evaluation of the subject will be done according to the following:



Continuous assessment:

- 1.5 points: Delivery of Health Education Program Task and Presentation, Participation and Attendance (Justification health problem)

- 1 point: Realization, Presentation, Participation and Assistance Pharmaceutical Council

- 0.5 points: Search for information (Tasks), Attitude, Participation

- 7 points: Exam: 70 multiple choice questions (Correct: 0.1 points; Incorrect: -0.025 points; In white: 0 points)

. 3.5 points on the exam: minimum to pass the subject

. 5 points in total: minimum to pass the subject

Resignation from the call will result in the qualification of Not Presented or Not Presented, for this, it will be enough to not take the subject exam.



Final evaluation:

Students may waive continuous evaluation and will have the right to be evaluated through the evaluation system, final evaluation. To do so, you must present your resignation in writing to the teaching staff responsible for the subject within the deadlines established by current regulations. The choice of the final system will be effective for both calls (ordinary and extraordinary).

- Exam:

. 7 points: 70 multiple choice questions (Correct: 0.1 points; Incorrect: -0.025 points; In

white: 0 points)

. 3 points: 3 Questions to develop: 1 point each question

. 5 points in total: minimum to pass the subject

Resignation from the call will result in the qualification of Not Presented or Not Presented, for this, it will be enough to not take the subject exam.

There is no mandatory material.

Basic bibliography

- Piédrola Gil. Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública. 12ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier Masson, 2015.

Web addresses

- www.osakidetza.euskadi.eus.