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Social Medicine
The full MU Sofia syllabus for Social Medicine, Medicine, Years 2 and 3: 50 topics, every one with a free study note (2 hours of reading), and 664 flashcards. Updated 9 November 2026.
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Syllabus
The topics in the order of the MU Sofia syllabus. Each one with a note opens in AceMed once you're signed in.
- 1. Social Medicine as a science: subject matter, objectives and methods2 min · 15 cards
- 2. Public Health: definition, components, basic areas; systematic approach to analysis of public health2 min · 15 cards
- 3. Health and disease: contemporary definitions, dimensions of health, health continuum, life cycle and health, salutogenesis2 min · 12 cards
- 4. WHO concept of social determinants of health and inequalities in health2 min · 11 cards
- 5. Social factors of health and disease: classification; effects of poverty, education, occupation, social network on health1 min · 11 cards
- 6. Socio-medical approach to health and disease; social history of health and disease2 min · 13 cards
- 7. Sociological approach in social medicine: sources and methods of collecting personal data, types, advantages and disadvantages, application in medical practice and health services2 min · 14 cards
- 8. Epidemiological approach in social medicine: scope, essence and applications of epidemiology in medicine and health care2 min · 12 cards
- 9. Measuring disease frequency and comparing occurrence: absolute and relative comparison (risk difference, etiological fraction, population attributable risk, relative risk, odds ratio)3 min · 15 cards
- 10. Types of epidemiological studies: classification, descriptive, ecological and cross-sectional studies, applications in medical practice4 min · 16 cards
- 11. Analytical epidemiological studies: case control studies, types, design, conducting, advantages, disadvantages, potential errors3 min · 14 cards
- 12. Analytical epidemiological studies: cohort studies, types, design, conducting, advantages and disadvantages3 min · 15 cards
- 13. Experimental epidemiological studies: randomized control trials, field trials, community trials, design, conducting, applications2 min · 14 cards
- 14. Evidence Based Medicine: basic concepts, rating of evidences1 min · 8 cards
- 15. Disease prevention: essence, scope, levels, primary prevention strategies; screening definition, types, test performance measures3 min · 14 cards
- 16. Health Promotion: definition, principles, strategies; Ottawa Charter2 min · 13 cards
- 17. Life style as a health factor: healthy life style, elements, motivation and types of motives of health behavior1 min · 9 cards
- 18. Health culture; health education: definition, goals, models, principles, methods and forms2 min · 16 cards
- 19. Population health assessment: sources and methods of determining indicators, basic groups of indicators2 min · 14 cards
- 20. Demographic approach: population statics, age structure, age pyramid, medical and social implications of population ageing1 min · 13 cards
- 21. Population dynamics: migration, types of migration processes, health influences of migration1 min · 14 cards
- 22. Population dynamics: natural movement, reproduction rates, physician's obligations in registration of vital events2 min · 15 cards
- 23. Fertility indicators: birth rate, worldwide trends and regional variation, family planning and reproductive behavior1 min · 14 cards
- 24. Mortality indicators: crude death rate, trends, standardized mortality rates, proportional mortality, maternal mortality3 min · 15 cards
- 25. Infant mortality: definition, worldwide trends and regional variation; under-5 mortality rate1 min · 15 cards
- 26. Life expectancy: definition, life tables, worldwide trends and regional variation1 min · 15 cards
- 27. Physical development as a population health measure; problems of accelerated physical development1 min
- 28. Morbidity as a population health measure: information sources, study methods, International Classification of Diseases (ICD)4 min · 15 cards
- 29. Working ability, temporary and permanent disability: definitions and medical and social problems6 min · 16 cards
- 30. Integral measures of population health: healthy life expectancy, disability adjusted life years, avoidable mortality3 min · 15 cards
- 31. Major diseases: definition, criteria, worldwide morbidity and mortality trends, global burden of diseases3 min · 15 cards
- 32. Major determinants of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCD); prevention and control strategies5 min · 15 cards
- 33. Family and health: family impact on individual health, family health, general practitioner as family physician2 min · 15 cards
- 34. Global problems of public health; international health cooperation; World Health Organization (WHO)2 min · 15 cards
- 35. WHO global health strategies and programs; European health strategies and programs1 min · 11 cards
- 36. Health system as component of the social system: goals, functions, principles of organization and activity2 min · 15 cards
- 37. Health management: definition, importance, management process and cycle, contemporary trends in health planning and management2 min · 15 cards
- 38. Health legislation: health as a right, human rights and health, Health Act, Health Insurance Act, Medical-treatment Facilities Act2 min · 14 cards
- 39. Resources in health care: human health resources, health professions, medical profession, global and regional trends2 min · 13 cards
- 40. Financing the health system; typology of health systems in developed countries; characteristics of health insurance system1 min · 15 cards
- 41. Health service: functions, goals, development factors, health care and medical care, levels, nomenclature of medical establishments2 min · 14 cards
- 42. Health policy: definition, levels, priority setting, priorities in developed countries1 min · 13 cards
- 43. Primary health care and primary medical care: definition, objectives, elements, organization; general practitioner as main provider2 min · 14 cards
- 44. Role of the physician in management process; management of medical practice and of disease/health1 min · 11 cards
- 45. Hospital care: functions, organization, financing, performance assessment, state and trends in developed countries and Bulgaria2 min · 13 cards
- 46. Emergency care: goals, organization, state and trends in developed countries and Bulgaria4 min · 14 cards
- 47. Preventive care: goals, organization, preventive programs, dispensary method, role of general practitioner2 min · 14 cards
- 48. Health of women: healthcare goals, organization and specific programs for mothers3 min · 15 cards
- 49. Health of children by age periods: healthcare goals, organization and specific programs for children25 min
- 50. Health of the elderly; health services for the elderly2 min · 15 cards
Other Year 2 subjects
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- Anatomy (Cardiovascular system)36 notes
- Anatomy (CNS)34 notes
- Anatomy (Internal Organs+Glands)44 notes
- Anatomy (PNS)44 notes
- Anatomy (Topographic)40 notes
- Biochemistry70 notes
- Biophysics30 notes
- Histology17 notes
- Physiology104 notes
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