Public Health
[HUMA2020]
[30h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Jean Macq, Myriam Malengreau
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- describe and understand the main factors affecting health in developing countries and the principal problems of health
- describing and understanding the organization and the functioning of the Health service and health support programs.
The course does not aim at giving students specific aptitudes as far as planning, implementation or management of health services are concerned - this is subjected to specific trainings.
Main themes
2. Health Systems and strategies: an integrated approach or a problem solving approach
3. Primary care policy, health policy and the health district
4. Mother and child Health Support Programs
5. Health Professionals : needs, training and supervision
6. Drugs and material
7. Epidemic and disease spreading
8. Medical problems in complex emergencies
9. Planning - general facts
10. Planning by objectives
11. International co-operation: projects approach, sectorial approaches
12. Urban health and the urban health district
13. Early alarm systems and food safety
14. Refugee camps
Content and teaching methods
For each examined topic, the student must have read the notes and have explored the suggested Internet sites, BEFORE the course.
The course must allow the student to clarify or raise objection towards readings, and to ask some questions about subjects in connection with the topic of the day.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Evaluation: written exam (knowledge checking) held in January.
Support: documents and notes to be read before the courses are made available for stu-dents on the icampus Website :
http://www.icampus.ucl.ac.be/claroline/course_description/index.php
Professor Malengreau can be contacted by email with the address malen-greau@epid.ucl.ac.be or while telephoning his secretariat to the 02-754.35.30 to agree on an appointment. Professor Grodos can be contacted via daniel.grodos@skynet.be