Elements of basic economics.Health as a private good and the positive external effects of health.Medical services and medical insurance.The demand for healthcare services.The supply of healthcare services.The healthcare market, setting prices.Inefficiency of the service and insurance markets; public sector intervention.Efficiency regarding equity.The healthcare systems.The difference between provision and production.Alternatives and reforms.Managing businesses and organisations that supply health-related goods and services.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Biological, psychological and psychosocial factors associated with addictive behaviours.The transtheoretical model of change applied to the acquisition and abandonment of addictions.Interventions for preventing addictive behaviours.Interventions for abandoning addictive behaviours.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
BASIC CONCEPTS: electronic systems, telemedicine and electronic health.TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS: standards, monitoring, sensors, interactivity, usability, accessibility and security.NEW ELECTRONIC SERVICES: content management tools,communication tools, information search tools.STAGES OF APPLICATION: telerehabilitation, telemonitoring, teleconsultation, teleradiology, cooperative work, health emergencies, information services and tele-education for health.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to the area of emergency services in hospitals.Knowing the processes that most frequently require urgent medical attention.Knowing how to recognize situations of risk to life.Knowing how to assess the signs and symptoms that lead to the majority of cases attended to in emergency medical services.Acquiring the capacity for synthesis to make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions quickly and accurately when faced with life-threatening emergencies and anticipating non life-threatening emergencies.Demonstrating knowledge of the techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).Knowing how to communicate information to patients and their relatives in the context of an emergency.Demonstrating the capacity to adopt diagnostic and therapeutic measures based on the characteristics of each patient.Demonstrating the capacity to act in a highly stressful environment in situations of uncertainty with all the elements surrounding the patient in the accident and emergency department.Knowing the different options that make it possible to manage the outflow of patients assessed in A&E.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Appraisal and pre-operative preparation of the sick person.Anesthetic-surgical risk.Monitoring organ functions.Anaesthetic techniques and drugs.Anaesthetic complications.Post-anaesthetic recovery.Critically ill post-surgical patients.Treatment of pain.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
ER |
2second semester |
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2second semester |
Analysis of the human body based on the organs.Functionality of the body.Biomechanical aspects of bone-muscle interaction.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Introduction in the area of nutritional deficits in the emergent countries in order to give the students a general vision of the patofisiologia and treatment of these illnesses and the actions that are carried out for its eradication.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Introduction of some relevant literary works to the medicine in order to contribute to an integral education and of broadening the perspective of the students.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Introduction to areas of literature that are of interest to students of medicine with the aim of contributing to their comprehensive education
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
The majority of the neglected tropical illnesses are endemic in the rural zones of Africa in the south of the Sahara and in the poor urban zones of the countries of low income of Asia and Latin America.They drive, the disfigurement, the deficient child growth, the adverse results in the pregnancy and the reduced economic productivity, to the long-term disability.Its impact in the productivity of the workers is of thousands of millions of lost dollars every year and countries of basses maintain income in the poverty.Approaching the tropical illnesses neglected from a perspective of public health often imply negotiations for not only our fundamental interests, but also beliefs about the needs and priorities of public health, and as the government and the society should be working to obey to these needs and priorities.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
The goal of this optional subject is to prepare students to be able to identify the scientific evidence that underpins medical knowledge.This optional subject will provide medicine students with the basic tools used in basic sciences research related to medicine.The selection of lectures by Nobel Prize winners for medicine will help students to understand how current accepted knowledge in medicine comes from observation and research.They will also gain some understanding of how ideas about medicine evolve and how they are related to the development of technology.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |
Medicines have more and more impact in our healthcare system, not only due to their role in curing and controlling illnesses, but also the economic impact on society.In this optional module students will identify and evaluate the relationship between global consumption of medicines and the prevalence of illnesses. They will look at which factors determine the selection of treatment areas in the development of medicines, they will identify the strategies for promoting development and commercialisation of drugs, they will look at the criteria that to authorise medicines in the European Union and their consequences, and the criteria used to establish the price of medicines and reimbursement.
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OPoptional |
5.00 |
A |
2second semester |