Course Schedule

1. Introduction: key concepts and definitions e.g. Health, Preventive Medicine, ecological health model etc.
2. Individual preventive strategies and clinical preventive services: the aims and concepts of prevention at individual level, preventive services or methods available
3. Theories for individual behavior change: introduce the theories for individual behavior change, health belief model, stage of change model, and social cognitive theory
4. Discussion on precision prevention: introduce definition and contents of precision prevention, based on three levels of prevention discuss application of genetic information
5. Consultation for smoking cessation: importance of smoking cessation in disease prevention, based on the theories of individual behavior change to conduct effective smoking cessation
6. Consultation for diet: methods for assessment of diet, factors having impact on individual diet, nutritional information, healthy diet and calculate recipes for diabetic patients
7. Consultation for physical activities: methods for assessment of physical activities, factors impact on individual activities, physical activity interventions
8. Strategies for early detection of disease: principles of screening, indicators for evaluating screening tests, potential biases of evaluation of effectiveness of screening,  screening guidelines
9. Preventive strategies for population and community health: introduce concepts of population and community health promotion
10. Environment, health and safety: discuss the impacts of environment on health, the issues concerned
11. Hospital and Patient Safety: safety issues during hospital stay and medical procedures
12. Reports with groups (Environment, health and safety）: groups discussion on environment and safety with health
13. Health system: definitely and structure of health system, evaluations of good health system
14. Health system（field visiting）: visit community health center
15. Non-communicable disease management: methods available for NCD management, importance and advantages of NCD management
16. Reports with groups（Health system）: group discussion on health systems of different countries