15-minute learning

Welcome to the 15-minute learning section. Here you will find quick, digestible lessons on various topics including statistics, social medicine, and public health. Each post is designed to be read or completed in approximately 15 minutes.

Health Culture, Health Behavior, and Health Education
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Health Education

A 15-minute reading covering health culture and its components, the determinants and motivations of health behavior, the COM-B model, steps for developing health culture at…

Kostadin Kostadinov
Apr 19, 2026
Planning, Economics, and Marketing in Healthcare
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Health Management
Health Economics

A 15-minute reading covering strategic management and health planning, the foundations of health economics including opportunity cost, demand elasticity, and economic…

Kostadin Kostadinov
Apr 19, 2026
Physician’s Liability and the Social History of the Patient
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

A 15-minute reading covering the four forms of physician liability under Bulgarian law and the structured framework for social history taking and medical-social planning.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Apr 15, 2026
Reproductive Health, Family Medicine, and Adolescent Health
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

A 15-minute reading covering abortion as a public health problem, infertility, family planning, prophylaxis of congenital diseases, family health care, adolescence and…

Kostadin Kostadinov
Apr 15, 2026
Expert Evaluation of Temporary Incapacity for Work — Indicators and Analysis
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

An overview of the medical assessment of work capacity, temporary incapacity for work, authorities, indicators, and social protection in Bulgaria.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 28, 2026
The Dispensary Method in Preventive Medicine
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

A comprehensive reading on the dispensary method, its proactive orientation, operational forms, and implementation in the Bulgarian healthcare system.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 27, 2026
Occupational Medicine and Workplace Health
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

An overview of occupational medicine, its preventive hierarchy, legal frameworks, and the role of Occupational Health Services in Bulgaria.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 27, 2026
Hospital Care in Bulgaria: Functions, Structure, Hospitalization, and Quality
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

A 15-minute reading material covering the functions, structure, hospitalization processes, and quality of hospital care in Bulgaria.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 20, 2026
Primary Health Care, Outpatient Care, and the General Practitioner
English
Public Health
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

A comprehensive reading on the rationale of primary health care, its definition, characteristics, and the Bulgarian model of outpatient care and the general practitioner’s…

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 15, 2026
The Burden of Disease: Concepts, Measurement, and the Bulgarian Context
English
Public Health
Epidemiology
Social Medicine
Bulgaria

A comprehensive 15-minute reading material on the framework of disease burden, exploring metrics such as DALY, YLL, and YLD, and examining the current epidemiological…

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 7, 2026
Risk Factors, Causality, and Morbidity Measurement
English
Epidemiology
Social Medicine
Public Health

Reading material on Risk Factors and Causality. Measurement of Diseases and Exposure. Morbidity Data Sources. Case Finding and Case Reporting.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Mar 1, 2026
Demography Indices and the Physician’s Role in Registration
English
Demography
Social Medicine
Public Health
Registration

An in-depth 15-minute reading material on demographic indices, population structures, and the legal framework for birth and death registration in public health.

Kostadin Kostadinov
Feb 22, 2026
Sociological Research Methods in Medicine
English
Medical Sociology
Research Methods
Social Medicine
Public Health

An in-depth 15-minute reading material on integrating sociological inquiry within public health, exploring how qualitative and quantitative methods reveal the social…

Kostadin Kostadinov
Feb 15, 2026
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