Health Sciences

This course explores the knowledge required to be healthy for entire life. (Safety, Diseases, Nutrition, Sleep, Mental Health etc.) The aim of this course is to provide students with information about human health and security that is based on current scientific evidence. The course will inform students about health and security to assist them in developing healthy habits, reducing their risks for illness and injury, and maximizing their academic and human potential at ICU.

 

The course provides an overview of modern health challenges in Europe and how they are shaped by a variety of themes within stakeholders in policy, research, and practice. Such themes include developing a unified system of population health monitoring across sovereign countries; coping with population aging and rising healthcare expenditures; managing commercial and social determinants of health; supporting cross-border collaboration between national health systems; fostering learning and the exchange of expertise in social and health policy; and identifying a global role for European Public Health. The current course combines theory with practice through lectures, tutorials, and a masterclass. Lectures introduce the content and initiate discussions on topics covered by the course. In addition, the course makes use of problem-based learning (PBL), a prominent learning method widely used at Maastricht University, in which students actively engage in their own learning. Finally, the course includes an exchange of views in the form of a masterclass with a senior expert in European health policy. To facilitate a fruitful learning environment a moderate level of health-related knowledge is required. Hence, the course is directed toward students attending bachelor or master's courses in medicine, public health science, sociology, anthropology, political science, or economics.

This course provides students with an introductory investigation into the question of if, when, and how ethical considerations can or must play a role in the practice of the medical profession. It makes students aware of the fact that the health sciences are not operating in a moral vacuum and that a good knowledge of both older and recent ethical debates in this particular field is of the greatest significance. This course consists of three parts. The first part of the course gives an introduction to some fundamental European philosophical ideas of what it means to be a human being. This introduction is accompanied by an introduction to the most important ethical theories of the West. The second part of the course discusses a general framework of medical ethics as it could play a guiding role in the day-to-day practice of those who are members of the medical profession or related areas. The third part of the course discusses some of the most important and well-known ethical problems that can be found within the medical field. There are lectures, discussions, and the study of cases that reflect the most important problems and topics that make up the moral challenges of the medical discipline of today. 

This course offers a study of the growing field of mosquito research and other areas of science by bring ordinary people into the scientific process. This course uses the problem of disease-vector mosquitoes to examine how citizen science, disease ecology, and statistics can be powerful tools for public health.

This is a special studies course with projects arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific topics of study vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. The number of units varies with the student's project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student's special study project form.

This course provides a basic understanding of how health communication can be used in the field of health promotion, including strategic planning for integrated mass media campaigns and the development of health communication messages that are consistent with principles of behavioral sciences. This course reviews the role of health communication as a means of promoting public health and also stimulates thinking about how the power of health communication can be harnessed to advance a public health agenda. Topics include the history of health communication and its underpinning theories; key elements of developing evidence-based health communication strategies; and major steps involved in the health communication process. Text: National Cancer Institute, MAKING HEALTH COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS WORK. Assessment: attendance and participation (10%), class discussions (20%), concept papers (35%), oral presentations (35%).