POSEBNA POGLAVLJA IZ JAVNOG ZDRAVLJA

Students gain an understanding and develop critical thinking about how globalization and development affect health and are trained to analyze responses and approaches to current and future global trends that have both positive and negative effects on health and health inequalities. 2. In addition, the expected outcomes refer to the training of people in the community to increase control over their health and to improve it, to strengthen activities to improve health in the community, to implement disease prevention measures and participate in activities to increase the level of information and quantity knowledge about health risk factors and measures to eliminate them. 3. Also, students will be in a position to apply the principles of public health in the areas of their professional activity, to advocate, to initiate, to represent their implementation in all segments of health care. 4. The student will be able to: educate citizens about increasing control over their health, improving health and disease prevention measures; conducts health education activities and supervision of nurses and other staff in the team; advises mothers on the importance of breastfeeding and how to properly feed newborns and infants; assess smoking status, degree of smoking addiction, as well as methods for quitting smoking; identifies alcohol and substance (drug) addicts, adequately approaches these patients and educates vulnerable groups in the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse; educates vulnerable groups (adolescents) about sexually transmitted diseases; understands the principles of proper nutrition and suggests an adequate way of eating to citizens; explain the importance of regular physical activity and its impact on health; explain obesity as a risk factor for contracting mass non-communicable diseases, and to propose non-pharmacological measures for its treatment; identifies people under stress and trains them on stress reduction methods; understands and analyzes key risk factors, as well as the principles of health promotion in order to prevent cardiovascular, malignant diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and diabetes; understands the specifics of the geriatric population and ways to promote health in this population group.