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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
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Syllabus of the subject:
Week Class type Themes
1 Lecture Introduction. Changing patterns of disease
2 Lecture Health and illness behaviour.
3 Lecture Social inequalities in health and mortality.
4 Seminar Health and illness behaviour.
5 Seminar Social inequalities in health and mortality.
6 Lecture Health professions
7 Seminar Health professions
8 Lecture National variations of health care
9 Lecture Health care and health policy
10 Lecture Midterm examination
11 Seminar Chronic illness and disability
12 Seminar Ageing and care of the elderly
13 Seminar Gender aspects of health
14 Seminar Doctor-patient relationship
The course includes: lectures, seminars, laboratory excercises -
7 lectures, 7 seminars, 1 midterm exam.
Course requirements, methods of monitoring:
To obtain signature for absolving the course students have to participate at a minimum of 10
classes. Participation is documented through catalogues. A midterm exam is taken after the 8th
lecture. It is also required to submit a home paper or a class presentation in course-related topics
by the end of the semester. The course ends with an exam; the grade may include the results of
the midterm and the home assignment.
Supplement possibilities: based on the SE’s exam regulation.
Absence may be justified by a medical document at the next class. One seminar per semester cen
be supplemented by an extra assignment given by the teacher or attending the same class with
another group.
Textbook:
1 Gerry Humphris, Margaret S. Ling: Behavioural Sciences for Dentistry.
Churchill Livingstone, London, 2005
2 Handouts for the lectures will be accesible ont he homepage of the Institute of behavioural Sciences:
www.magtud.sote.hu.