• Definitions and characteristics of chronic diseases, shown on the examples of chronic pulmonary disease, dermatitis/eczema, post-stroke syndrome, cancer.
• Life course approach to chronic disease: long-term effect on the risk of chronic disease due to physical and social and exposures during gestation (in utero programming), childhood, and later life.
• Methods of diagnosing and measuring the needs for health care and social services of the chronically ill people.
• The chronically ill in their families and the society.
• Rehabilitation and care services for the chronically ill.
• Health promotion and prevention of chronic diseases.
• Economic costs of chronic disease  due to impairment and disability.
• Health and social policy towards chronically ill people on the community and state level.
• Preparation of a project –health promotion programme related to chronic illness.

Main teachers

• Katarzyna Szczerbińska (Pologne)

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
33	128	4.5