HSP614 - ADOLESCENT HEALTH and PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADOLESCENT HEALTH and PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES | HSP614 | Any Semester/Year | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Brain Storming | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Hilal Özcebe, MD | |||||
| Course objective | It is aimed that the students acquire knowledge about development stages and health problems of adolescents, needs of public health services of the adolescents. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | 1.Characteristics of adolescents development stages 2.Adolescent health problems 3.Health service needs of adolescents 4.Adolescent-friendly services | |||||
| References | Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı ve Çocuk Sağlığı Enstitüsü Yayını. Katkı Pediatri Dergisi. Adolesan. Cilt 21, Sayı 6, Kasım-Aralık 2000-ISSN 1300-4336. Adolescent and Adolescent Reproductive Health. International Children?s Centre, (supported by UNFPA and Ministry of Health General Directorate of Maternal Child Health Family Planning), Meteksan A.Ş. Ankara 2003. WHO. Adolescent Friendly Health Services An Agenda for Change, WHO/FCH/CAH/02.14, Geneva, 2002. WHO. Child And Adolescent Division. UNICEF, web pagesı UNFPA. Web pages Different actual articles in each course program | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Adolescent development stages and characteristics |
| Week 2 | Physical health problems of adolescents |
| Week 3 | Psychosocial health problems of adolescents |
| Week 4 | Reproductive and sexual health problems of adolescents |
| Week 5 | Risky behaviors of adolescents |
| Week 6 | Dimensions of health problems of adolescents in the community |
| Week 7 | Health needs of adolescents |
| Week 8 | Perspective of adolescent health problems in the community |
| Week 9 | Prevention of health problems of adolescents in the family |
| Week 10 | Prevention of health problems of adolescents in the school |
| Week 11 | Characteristics of adolescent health services |
| Week 12 | Reaching to adolescents |
| Week 13 | Adolescent participation in the health services |
| Week 14 | Evaluation of the adolescent health services |
| Week 15 | Discussion and evaluation |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 2 | 10 |
| Presentation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 1 | 20 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 4 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| Total Workload | 29 | 28 | 60 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Explains basic information about healthy nutrition. | X | ||||
| 2. Adopts public health approach related to healthy nutrition. | X | ||||
| 3. Explains the importance of interdisciplinary work on adequate and balance nutrition issues. | X | ||||
| 4. Defines scientific research methods related to nutrition and the epidemiological and statistical approaches that can be used in these researches. | X | ||||
| 5. Uses theoretical and practical knowledge to determine the nutrition status of the community. | X | ||||
| 6. Defines the most prevalent nutritional problems in the community, promotes solutions using his/her knowledge and skills and proposes recommendations for policy/decision makers. | X | ||||
| 7. Knows the nutritional needs of the priority and vulnerable groups of the community and develops recommendations for the prevention of the prevalent diseases. | X | ||||
| 8. Develops hypotheses, plans and conducts research, interprets the results and writes reports in order to determine and/or improve the nutritional level of the community. | X | ||||
| 9. Works with other health-related fields to improve the nutritional status of the population. | X | ||||
| 10. Evaluates nutrition-related improvements at the national and global levels. | X | ||||
| 11. Knows and acts in accordance with scientific and professional ethical principles in academic and community-based studies in the field of nutrition. | X | ||||
| 12. Conducts research on priority topics in the field of nutrition, presents and prepares for publication. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest