Teaching Courses, Contribution to Undergraduate Courses
This is a 4-year continuous entry interdisciplinary undergraduate degree programme that concentrates on Health and Safety while exposing participants to the related aspects of quality and the environment. The purpose of the programme is to produce graduates who are capable of determining and managing an organisation’s exposure to issues arising in these areas.
The Department of Health Promotion contributes to two courses in 3rd year (namely: ’Occupational Health’ and ’Environmental Epidemiology’) and two courses in 4th year (namely: the project and ’Health and the Work Environment’.
Application for this course may be made through the Central Applications Office (CAO), Eglinton Street, Galway.
Contact for further details:
Course Director: Mr. Enda Fallon, Department of Industrial Engineering
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This programme is currently taught in the 1st and 2nd years of the newly revised medical undergraduate programme. The overall aim of this course is to introduce students to essential sociological and psychological understandings about the determinants of health and disease. The course is delivered through lectures and tutor facilitated Enquiry Based Learning (EBL). This programme is one of four streams that contribute to the overall Professionalism 1.1 and Professionalism 2.2 modules.
Application for the undergraduate medical course may be made through the Central Applications Office (CAO), Eglinton Street, Galway.
Contact for further details:
Course Coordinator: Verna McKenna
Secretary: Denise Glavin
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The overall aim of the Public Health – Health Promotion component of this course is to give an awareness of the social, economic and political determinants of health. The course emphasises clinical epidemiology as a basic science for clinical medicine and relates the practice of medicine to the health of populations. Public health and health promotion is about actions to improve the health of populations and address health inequities.
By the end of the course students should be able to:
- discuss the main determinants of health
- describe the main health problems experienced by populations and groups within them
- distinguish between different measures of health and disease
- outline different strategies for disease prevention
- describe health service organisation and the role of public health and health promotion
- describe inequalities in health and ways of addressing them
- consider the options for investigation of a health problem in a population
- apply epidemiological principles and methods to medical practice
- understand the strengths and weaknesses of different epidemiological study designs
- explain how tests may be used to screen for cases of disease
- explore the role of public policy in health
Health and Disease II is the second of the two Health & Disease modules:
(i) Health and Disease I in Semester 2, year 2
(ii) Health and Disease 2, in Semester 1, year 3
Application for the undergraduate medical course may be made through the Central Applications Office (CAO), Eglinton Street, Galway.
Contact for further details:
Course Director: Dr. Diarmuid O’Donovan
Secretary: Denise Glavin
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