FVP:UVSRPV0149 Health and Disease - Course Information
UVSRPV0149 Health and Disease
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaSummer 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Hana Heiderová, PhD. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiřina Hosáková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- René Pastrňák
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Public Administration and Regional Policy (programme FVP, B6731-SPSP)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course Health and Disease is to introduce the determinants which can lead to diseases and conduct them to understanding of man as integrated being in social system. The course should present the issue of diseases and disorders both physical and mental as well as handicap of sense organs and according to individual groups of handicaps show peculiarities of social position of handicapped. The course should contribute to consolidation of theoretical knowledge in order that the students can use it in concrete situations during the practice in social work. The lectures will be aimed at issue of stress and life cycle as factors which influence perceived feeling of health. The students will be introduced what essential change the disease means in life of individual, they will comprehend the new role of ill and his position in family, in society, in medical institutions. The course deals also with communication between medical staff and patient, roles, expectations which during the process of communication appear. The course is intended for Department of Public Administration and Regional Policy students only.
- Syllabus
- 1. Elementary concepts, elementary literature and sources
2. Definition of health, pathogens and salutors effecting health
3. Life style and its influence on health
4. Psychology of health
5. Stress, its origin, management, risk
6. Burn-out syndrome
7. Psychology of disease
8. Definition of disease, phase of origin, development of disease
9. Patient in terminal stadium, death
10. Communication between patient and medical staff
11. Change of role of patient and expectations of development of disease
12. Summary
- 1. Elementary concepts, elementary literature and sources
- Literature
- required literature
- Holčík a kol. Sociální lékařství. I. - II. díl. Brno: MU, 2002. info
- Kübler-Rossová, E. Otázky a odpovědi o smrti a umírání. Turnov: Arica, 1994. info
- Baštecký, J. Psychosomatická medicína. Praha: Grada, 1993. info
- Křivohlavý, J. Vážně nemocný mezi námi. Praha: Avicenum, 1989. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion - Assessment methods
- Test
Oral exam - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Composition of seminar paper on assigned topic aimed at correct work with literature, composition of essay on assigned topic focused on own consideration and subjective evaluation. Oral exam from circles regarding taught topics.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2015, recent)
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