Study Programmes 2015-2016
SANT2027-1  
Health and Society Module A
  • Medicine and environment
  • General principles of public health and health economics
  • Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
Duration :
Medicine and environment : 7,5h Th
General principles of public health and health economics : 12h Th
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I : 6h Th
Number of credits :
Master in medicine (240 ECTS)4
Lecturer :
Medicine and environment : Philippe Mairiaux
General principles of public health and health economics : Jean-Yves Reginster
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I : Philippe Boxho, Jean-Yves Reginster
Coordinator :
Jean-Yves Reginster
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
General principles of public health and health economics
- Methodological aspect of clinical trials - Drug discovery and development - Assessment of quality of life - Introduction to Health Economic Analyses in Health
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
The student will integrate the basic and advanced concepts leading to the optimization of his/her interaction with health professionals and patients. He/she will integrate the ethical dimensions helping him/her to better take into account the global societal challenges that will help to improve his/her diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium. Participative and proactive interaction would be considered as the basis of the course.
Learning outcomes of the course :
General principles of public health and health economics
After this course, the student will be available to understand the methodological principles used in the development of clinical trials. He/She will understand the different stages of the development of a new chemical entity, for its pharmacological discovery to its marketing. He/She will be able to appropriately manage the different tool allowing the assessment of health-related quality of life. He/She will be able to compare the various preventive or curative health strategies. He/She will be able to critically discus the various technical approaches possibilities of economic modelisation in Public Health.
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The experiences of the learning have to be: "Arrange ethical and ethical bases, allowing to develop a humanist reasoning in front of social problems met in a common way in the practice of health care"
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
General principles of public health and health economics
Successfully completed the fourth year of medical studies.
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
There is no prerequisited and no corequired
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
General principles of public health and health economics
No workshop
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The planned activities of learning will be: " Courts oral and interaction with representatives of the civil society, recognized for their expertise in the concerned problem "
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
General principles of public health and health economics
The course will take the shape of works to be realized by the students.
They will have to put back to the secretariat of Professor Jean-Yves Reginster (Unity of Public health - Bât. B23 - level 0 - 0/43A) by December 1st at the latest, about 20 pages, corresponding to an original bibliographical work on one of the following subjects:
- The medicine based on the proofs (evidence-based medicine).
- The procedure centralized by recording of medicines in Europe.
- The procedure decentralized by recording of medicines in Europe.
- The procedure of recording of medicines by mutual gratitude(recognition), in Europe.
- The European Agency of the Medicine.
- The new technologies of the communication applied to the health.
- The methods of bibliométrique evaluation.
- The procedures of publication in a scientific Quality review.
- The methodological principles of the therapeutic attempts.
- The stages of the development of a medicine.
- The clinical attempts of superiority.
- The clinical attempts of non-inferiority or equivalence.
- The peculiarities of the Economy of the Health with regard to the other dimensions of the economy.
- The methods of evaluation of the systems of health.
- The definition and the methods of evaluation of the utility of a health.
- The modellings of Markov and the micro-simulations of Horsemanship Carlo.
- The methods of evaluation of the efficiency ( ICER) of a medicine. - The Federal Public utility of Health service, Safety(Security) of the Food chain and Environment.
- The Federal Centre of Expertise of the Care of Health ( KCE).
- The role of the bodies insurers (mutual insurance companies) in the pyramid of the care of health in Belgium.
- The organization of the care of health in Belgium.
- The code of ethics governing the relations between pharmaceutical societies and practitioners of the art to cure.
 
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
The mode of education will be face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
There is neither recommended or compulsory reading nor notes
Assessment methods and criteria :
General principles of public health and health economics
The note corresponding to this course will be based on a realized work, in binomial even individually, about 20 pages corresponding to an original bibliographical work on one of the subjects of the course. The evaluation will be based on the quality of the bibliographic research, on the ability to synthesize, on the critical spirit developed by the student (s).
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
A note of 6 points on 20 will be granted for every presence to three lessons. 2 additional points will be given to students who will have attended the 3 lessons. For the second session, the student will have to realize a personal work of 25 pages, in one of the themes which will have been approached, during the teaching of the concerned academic year. The work must be put back in duplicate before August 15th, on one hand to Professor Boxho and on the other hand, to Professor Reginster
Work placement(s) :
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
There is no training course to be considered
Organizational remarks :
General principles of public health and health economics
For the examination procedures, please refer to the official rules available on the University website.
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Contacts :
General principles of public health and health economics
Jean-Yves REGINSTER, Professor Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics CHU SART-TILMAN Bât. B23 Tél. : +32 4 366 29.26 - Fax : +32 4 366 28 12 E-mail : episp@ulg.ac.be
Secretary: Vanessa STRAUVEN
Bioethics and societal medicine, Part I
Jean-Yves REGINSTER, Professor Service of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics DSSP CHU SART TILMAN Bât. B23 Tel.  04/366.29.26 - Fax : 04/366.25.96 - Email: episp@ulg.ac.be -  Secretary : Vanessa STRAUVEN