HSP 201 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name
Human Society Planet III
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
HSP 201
Fall
2
2
3
4

Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Required
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Discussion
Group Work
Problem Solving
Case Study
Q&A
Lecture / Presentation
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives At the end of this course; the students are expected to explain the relationship between lifestyle and chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), define lifestyle risk factors related with diet, physical activity, sleep, stress, tobacco / alcohol usage, describe the importance of lifestyle interventions in prevention and management of NCDs and reduce the global disease burden, discuss the ways to improve lifestyle at an individual and community level, and to be able to evaluate themselves from certain perspectives of lifestyle behaviors, identifies their strengths and weaknesses, and create a development plan for their lifestyle that need improvement.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Define the impact of lifestyle-related NCDs on global and national disease burden.
  • Define the relation between nutrition and NCDs, and preventive interventions
  • Define the relation between physical activity and NCDs, and preventive interventions
  • Explain the relation between sleep and NCDs, and preventive interventions
  • Explain the relation between stress and NCDs, and preventive interventions
  • Explain the relation between smoking and NCDs, and preventive interventions
  • Explain the relation between alcohol and NCDs, and preventive interventions
  • Assess the socioeconomic and environmental risk factors for a healthy lifestyle
  • Discuss ways to improve healthy lifestyle behaviors during health promotion and disease management
  • Discuss strategies to promote a healthy lifestyle in community.
  • Discuss the role of national health policy and social determinants of health on improving healthy lifestyle behavior of the population.
  • Demonstrate basic skills to provide community education on lifestyle interventions.
  • Evaluate themselves from certain perspectives of lifestyle behaviors, identifies their strengths and weaknesses, and create a development plan for their lifestyle that need improvement.
Course Description In this course, the role of lifestyle factors in development of NCDs, and the importance of lifestyle interventions in prevention, management and reversal of lifestyle-related chronic disorders will be covered.

 



Course Category

Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Management Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Introduction to lifestyle medicine and the lifestyle medicine curriculum NextGenU Lifestyle Medicine Online Course Module 1. https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-2
2 Diet and health Mediterranean diet Recommended review articles The Mediterranean diet. Morris, Lauren, Bhatnagar, Deepak. Current Opinion in Lipidology: February 2016 - Volume 27 - Issue 1 - p 89-91 doi: 10.1097/MOL.0000000000000266 Davis C, Bryan J, Hodgson J, Murphy K. Definition of the Mediterranean Diet; a Literature Review. Nutrients. 2015 Nov 5;7(11):9139-53. doi: 10.3390/nu7115459. PMID: 26556369; PMCID: PMC4663587. https://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/document-1680-Eng-2 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu6041406
3 A healthy and balanced diet NextGenU Lifestyle Medicine Online Course Module 4 https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-20
4 Physical activity and health NextGenU Lifestyle Medicine Online Course Module 5 https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-25
5 Sleep and health NextGenU Lifestyle Medicine Online Course Module 5 https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-25
6 Stress and health Burnout syndrome NextGenU Lifestyle Medicine Online Course Module 8 https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-37ef
7 Tobacco-alcohol and health NextGenU Lifestyle Medicine Online Course Module 6 https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-28 Module 7 https://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#section-32
8 Lifestyle medicine in clinical practice https://www.worldobesity.org/about/about-obesity https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/basics/causes.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fobesity%2Fadult%2Fcauses.html
9 Lifestyle medicine in pediatric practice
10 Population based programs and lifestyle medicine I
11 Lifestyle and epigenetics
12 Population based programs and lifestyle medicine II Population based programs on lifestyle: nutrition, physical activity, alcohol, smartphone addiction, stress, sleep Presentations and discussion: Project (Population based programs on lifestyle: nutrition, Physical activity, alcohol, smartphone addiction, stress, sleep) Recommended review articles
13 Healthy campus activities Workshop : student-initiated lifestyle interventions in campus (Joint activity with PREP students from the School of Foreign Languages)
14 Healthy campus activities Workshop : student-initiated lifestyle interventions in campus (Joint activity with PREP students from the School of Foreign Languages)
15 Setting “smart goals” for lifestyle behaviours
16 Semestre review
17 Self study
18 Final exam

 

Course Notes/Textbooks

1. ELMO/ The Lifestyle Medicine course/Nutrition, Physical activity, Tobacco, alcohol, sleep health, emotional and mental well being, sexuality and health.

 

http://nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=205#19

Suggested Readings/Materials
  1. Türkiye Beslenme Rehberi 2015 https://dosyasb.saglik.gov.tr/Eklenti/10915,tuber-turkiye-beslenme-rehberipdf.pdf
  2. Türkiye Kronik Hastalıklar ve Risk Faktörleri Sıklığı Çalışması
  3.  
  4. Lifestyle Medicine Evidence Review –American Collage of Preventive Medicine
  5.  
  6. WHO Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2014 https://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd-status-report-2014/en/
  7. WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020 https://www.who.int/nmh/events/ncd_action_plan/en/
  8. Egger G, Climstein M. Chapter 8 Physical Activity: Generic Prescription for Health. In: Egger G, Binns A, Rossner S. Lifestyle Medicine: Managing Diseases of Lifestyle in the 21 st Century. 2nd ed. North Ryde, Australia: McGraw-Hill; 2010:91-110.
  9. GBD 2019 Cancer Risk Factors Collaborators*The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Vol 400 (August 20) , 2022 :563-91
  10. Morris Lauren, Bhatnagar Deepak. The Mediterranean diet. Current Opinion in Lipidology: February 2016 - Volume 27 - Issue 1 - p 89-91 doi: 10.1097/MOL.0000000000000266
  11. Davis C, Bryan J, Hodgson J, Murphy K. Definition of the Mediterranean Diet; a Literature Review. Nutrients. 2015 Nov 5;7(11):9139-53. doi: 10.3390/nu7115459.
  12. Courneya K.S, Rogers L.Q, Campbell K.L, Vallance J.K, Friedenreich C.M. Top 10 research questions related to physical activity and cancer survisorship. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport; 86, 107-116, 2015.
  13. RIGGS, J. A. (2001). Obesity: assessment and management in primary care. Am Fam Physician63(11), 2185-2197.
  14. TEMD Diabetes Mellitus ve Komplikasyonlarının Tanı, Tedavi ve İzlem Kılavuzu-2019
  15. Ling and Ronn, Epigenetics in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Cell Metabolism, 2019; 29(5): 1028–1044.
  16. Alvarado-Cruz, et al. Environmental Epigenetic Changes, as Risk Factors for the Development of Diseases in Children: A Systematic Review. Annals of Global Health, 2018; 84(2), pp. 212–224.
  17. Gomes, et al. Epigenetic vulnerability and the environmental influence on health. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2013; 238: 859–865.
  18. Gomes. Lifestyle and Preventive Medical Epigenetics (Chapter 6).
  19. Toro-Martin, et al. Precision Nutrition: A Review of Personalized Nutritional Approaches for the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Syndrome. Nutrients, 2017; 9(8).
  20. Grazioli, et al. Physical activity in the prevention of human diseases: role of epigenetic modifications. BMC Genomics, 2017; 18(Suppl 8):802.
  21. Joehanes, et al. Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking. Circ Cardiovasc Genet, 2016; 9(5): 436–447.
  22. Zhang, et al. Diet and the epigenome. Nature Communications, 2018; 9:3375.
  23. Alegría-Torres Jorge A, Baccarelli A, Bollati V. Epigenetics and lifestyle Epigenomics. 2011 June ; 3(3): 267–277. doi:10.2217/epi.11.22.
  24. Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 25;17(23):8758. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17238758.
  25. Lăcătușu CM, Grigorescu ED, Floria M, et al. The Mediterranean Diet: From an Environment-Driven Food Culture to an Emerging Medical Prescription. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 15;16(6):942. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16060942.

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
5
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
1
5
Homework / Assignments
1
20
Presentation / Jury
Project
1
15
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
1
25
Final Exam
1
30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
40
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 18 x total hours)
18
2
36
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.18.' x total hours)
18
2
36
Study Hours Out of Class
0
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
0
Portfolio
1
3
3
Homework / Assignments
4
3
12
Presentation / Jury
0
Project
1
10
10
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
1
10
10
Final Exam
1
20
20
    Total
127

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

Knowledge for Practice: Uses knowledge in biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, social and behavioral sciences for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of medical problems.

X
2

Information Management and Research: Uses the information generated through research and accessed from different sources in evidence-based patient management processes

X
3

Patient management: Provides patient-centered, holistic, safe, reliable and evidence-based health care for common health problems in the community, prioritizing health protection and improvement*.

X
4

Patient and employee safety: Provides health services by considering the health and safety of patients and employees.

5

Protection and promotion of health: Prioritizes protecting and improving the health of individuals and society in the provision of health services under usual/unusual situations. Performs clinical and public health practices in a holistic and competent manner

X
6

Adherence to ethical principles: Fulfills the duties and obligations within the framework of ethical principles and, rights and legal responsibilities required by the profession.

7

Professional competence: Provides a high-quality healthcare service that prioritizes patient safety. While applying the profession, he/she knows his/her limits, evaluates his/her own performance, determines the aspects that need to be developed and improves them within a plan

8

Professional virtues: Avoid behaviors that will undermine the public's trust in medicine. S/he approaches her/his patients with compassion and care without discrimination, and puts their welfare ahead of her/his own interests

X
9

A healthy physician- a healthy society: Gives importance to his/her personal health, safety and appearance, sets an example for his/her colleagues and society by taking the necessary precautions.

X
10

Planetary health and healthy lifestyles: Considering the effects of the resources offered by our planet on individual and public health, he/she accepts promoting healthy lifestyles and eliminating the factors that negatively affect health his/her duty.

X
11

Protecting and improving health as a social responsibility: Accepts protection and improvement of public health as a social responsibility, identifies the primary health problems of the society served and produces solutions.

X
12

Health policies: Evaluates the impact of health policies on the health indicators of individuals and society, and advocates increasing the quality of health services.

X
13

Change management: Systematically identifies and manages the issues/processes and the necessary resources that require change in order to provide quality, safe and cost-effective health care.

14

Personal qualifications: Provides evidence exerting that he/she is equipped enough to lead changes to make healthcare more qualified, safe and cost-effective

15

Communication skills: Uses verbal and non-verbal communication effectively. Communicates with patients in a way that makes them feel understood, with active listening behaviors (eye contact, affirmation, summarizing, etc.)

X
16

Communication with patients and their relatives: Establishes supportive relationships with patients and their families that contribute positively to the treatment process

17

Communication for qualified and safe health care: Communicates with patients, their relatives, health workers, other professional groups, institutions and organizations in a clear, understandable and professional manner that will minimize patient safety risks and increase the quality of health care. Considers and protects patient privacy and data security in all communications.

18

Explains the place and importance of scientific research and evidence in providing qualified and safe health care. Analyzes the health problems in the society s/he serves with scientific methods. Reaches information to access evidence. Uses the information analyzed and the evidence accessed from the literature to provide more qualified and safer health care

19

Reflection: Using reflective approaches, he/she questions his/her professional performance, identifies areas that require improvement, and develops his/her professional knowledge and skills by identifying learning needs.

X
20

Stress management: Explains and applies strategies for coping with stress and preventing burnout

X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 


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