Organization and Administration of Occupational Health Services

Code:

MESHO0024

Acronym:

OASSO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Safety Services

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Occupational Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MESHO	16	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2007/08	2	-	6	28	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Acquire knowledge regarding the specific concepts and methods of the Occupational Health Organization  and Services Administration area.

Acquisition of knowledge regarding the values and principles that should guide the design of health policies in an occupational context.

The student should be able:

to identify the different types of health indicators, their attributes, limitations and indications and their respective sources of information;

To know the epidemiological evolution of the health status of the population and the respective determinants.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

The program contents begin by giving a historical perspective of the occupational medicine in Portugal, its evolution and perspectives. It then moves on to the procedures of organization and implementation of occupational medicine in accordance with the legislation and the principles of good clinical and administrative practice.

Learning is developed in two fundamental stages. A first one in which the theoretical concepts and the envelopes of the different concepts of service organization are presented. A second phase in which knowledge consolidation is done and the  discussion of case studies will enable the consolidation of previously acquired knowledge.

This Course aims to provide students with the necessary information that allows them to articulate their knowledge about pathology, toxicology and clinical work with the legal requirements that regulate the activity of occupational medicine and that define legal framwork that is the function of the Occupational Physician in the companies, as well as the obligations of other actors such as unions, workers, employers and regulators.

The teaching of this CU has an initial component where the above-mentioned knowledge will be transmitted, and will be complemented with seminars where the presence of professionals of the area with recognized merit and knowledge will be an added value for the formation and consolidation of students' knowledge.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

n.a.

Program

Group 1

1. Presentation of the program, discussion of objectives and method of evaluation.
2. Medicine, Health and Profession. A balance so often unstable. Brief history of Occupational Medicine. Its evolution in the world.
3. The Occupational Medicine in Portugal. Its evolution up to our days. Future perspectives.
4. What is the role of the Work Doctor in a company?
5. Creation of an occupational health service. Models of organization. Regulatory legal aspects of the activity (I).
6. Creation of an occupational health service. Models of organization. Regulatory legal aspects of the activity (II).
7. Risk monitoring in Occupational Medicine.
8. Assessment of aptitude for work.
9. Companies and quality certification. Quality systems in companies.
10. Legal Perspectives to the Exercise of Occupational Medicine.
11. What companies expect from an occupational health service.
12. Hygiene and Safety in companies. Perspective of the hygiene and safety technician and the working doctor.
13. Research and Quality in Health
14. Analysis of occupational accidents. Evaluation methodology with practical examples indicated by the students.
15. Occupational diseases. Evaluation methodology with practical examples indicated by the students.
16. Compensation of the workers.

Group 2

1. Ethical and legal problems in the exercise of occupational medicine.
2. Models of organization of occupational health services.
3. Risk monitoring.

Mandatory literature

Keith T. Palmer ; Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects, Oxford University Press , 2007
Gary Kielhofner ; Model of Human Occupation : Theory and Application., Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007
Kenneth J. Rothman; Timothy L. Lash; Sander Greenland ; Modern Epidemiology, 2012
Barry S. Levy; David H. Wegman; Sherry L. Baron; Rosemary K. Sokas ; Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury., Oxford University Press Inc, 2011
Thomas Rustemeyer; Peter Elsner; Swen Malte John; H. I. Maibach ; Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology. , Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2012
Peter J. Baxter; Tar-Ching Aw; Anne Cockroft; Paul Durrington; J. Malcolm Harrington ; Hunter's Diseases of Occupations, 1994
Green A; ). An Introduction to Health Planning for Developing Health Systems, Oxford Publications, 2007
WilKin D, Hallam L, Doggett AM; Measures of need and outcome for primary health care, Oxford medical publications, 2010
WHO-Europe ; Strengthening Public Health Capacity and Services in Europe. A Concept Paper

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exposure, using the presentation and discussion of case studies.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	134,00
Frequência das aulas	28,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Terms of frequency: Minimum attendance  requirement of 75% to students holding a OHS Certificate (CAP – SHT) and minimum attendance of 90% to students without a OHS Certificate (CAP – SHT).

Calculation formula of final grade

75% test 25%pratical work

Examinations or Special Assignments

n.a.

Internship work/project

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n.a.

Classification improvement

n.a.