Scope of the course:
- notion of public health;
- main functions of public health in different countries;
- ten Essential Public Health Operations recommended by WHO for the European Region;
- health inequalities and their determinants;
- public health and health promotion strategies and methods, including those aimed at reducing health inequalities, employed by a selection of countries experienced in the field;
- major international and national publications on health inequalities;
- intervention types;
- health promotion viewed as public health operation;
- public health intervention planning;
- local partnership as an effective form of battling health inequalities.
Target groups:
- health sector employees, including physicians, nurses, midwives, paramedics, physical therapists, analysts, dieticians;
- students, PhD students and professors of public health and other medical and social faculties;
- employees of health-related NGOs;
- social care and public education employees;
- State Sanitary Inspection employees;
Substantive consultation: Katarzyna Lewtak, Ewa Urban, Maria Piotrowicz (National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene).
Approximate duration: 2h 30 min