Course: Health and Social Policy

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Course title Health and Social Policy
Course code KPZ/K1ZSP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kmentová Kateřina, Mgr.
  • Soukalová Kristýna, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Papršteinová Markéta, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Health and social politics - definitions, basic principles. The role of preventive medicine and public health in the system of public health care. General epidemiology and methods of its functioning. Hygiene and epidemiology in the question of public health protection. Occurrence of infectious diseases and its prevention. Addiction issues. Industrial medicine. Prevention of lifestyle diseases. Social marketing. Medical statistics and demography. Addiction issues. Occurrence of infectious diseases and its prevention.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with complex issues of state health policy focused on prevention and health promotion, to provide them basic concepts, topics, priorities and strategies of health and social policy.
Students know the priorities and strategies of health and social policy, accept the legislative and methodological recommendations related to the issue, are able to plan, lead, and evaluate the nursing process and to prevent undesirable situations resulting from the implementation of nursing care within multidisciplinary teams.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Presentation

Fulfilling the mandatory 80% participation in exercises. Completion of a written test or an oral examination as decided by the subject guarantor.
Recommended literature
  • FAIT, T. a kol. Preventivní medicína. Praha: Maxdorf Jessenius, 2008.
  • HOLČÍK, J. Systém péče o zdraví a zdravotní gramotnost. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2010.
  • HUDÁKOVÁ, A., MAJERNÍKOVÁ L. Kvalita života seniorů v kontextu ošetřovatelství. Praha: Grada, 2013.
  • JANEČKOVÁ, H.; HNILICOVÁ, H. Úvod do veřejného zdravotnictví. Praha: Portál, 2009.
  • KREBS, V. Sociální politika. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2010.
  • NEŠPOR, K. Návykové chování. Praha: Portál, 2007.


Study plans that include the course
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