Specialist degree in Medicine and Surgery (single cycle)

Public Health - Scienze umane: lezioni

Course code

4S01160

Name of lecturers

Mauro Niero, Stefano Tardivo

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1

Academic sector

SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

Language of instruction

Italian

Site

VERONA

Period

Lezioni e attività pratiche - 2° semestre (I-V anno) dal Feb 23, 2009 al May 29, 2009.

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Lesson timetable

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Learning outcomes

This course is aimed at introducing the main social science issues interesting medical sciences at three tipical conceptualization levels: macro (health provision services and welfare state; meso (organizations and health professions; micro (doctor-patient relationships; socio-psychological supports in clinical decision-making).

Syllabus

Issues of the course are the following:
- relationships between medical and social sciences: biomedical determinants of social issues; social issues of medical determinants;
- social research and outcome measurements: quality of life and Patient-reported otcomes in clinicl research;
- social research and patient satisfaction;
- medical errors and medical mistakes: typology and consequences;
- health systems, redistributios and welfare-state models.

Assessment methods and criteria

Teaching aids

Documents

•   Programma dettagliato   (msword, it, 89 KB, 01/08/08)