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Health Term and Concept
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:16.01.2024 09:07:04
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | MDAK_309 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Nursing Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilona Zariņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, Anniņmuižas boulevard 26a, mdak rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061568 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 30 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Secondary education, basic computer skills, knowledge of English and Latvian. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with knowledge of the physical, mental and social health of an individual, as well as health in the context of public health, health as a whole, focusing on healthy lifestyles and situations affecting health and their solutions. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept of health. Overall health. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Health determinants: heredity, lifestyle, environment, health care. | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | Biopsychosocial model in health perception. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 4 | Habits influencing health. Determinants of human habits. | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Health behaviour and motivation. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Individual and public health. Healthy lifestyle and quality of life. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 7 | Population health in the 21st century. Changes in the structure of morbidity in recent decades. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 8 | Main causes and prevention of chronic diseases. | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 9 | Risk factors for malignancies (skin cancer, lung cancer). | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 10 | Healthy lifestyle and clean environment as a means of preventing malignancy. | Classes | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | During the implementation of the study course, students independently prepare and present two independent works on the topics covered in the course, which are part of the self-experience project "Change of habit", which students independently implement during the course, as well as actively participate in classes. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in lectures and classes, at the end of the course - presentation of the self-experience project "Habit change". During the course, students develop and implement a self-experience project "Changing a habit" - a change in a lifestyle habit, define it, justify it with scientific information, set criteria, identify obstacles and contributing factors, draw up a plan, document the process and results, and execute it. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of studying the study course, students will know the influence of lifestyle on the quality of life, will know and understand the concepts of "health", "preventive measures", "prevention", "unhealthy behavior and behavior", will know about different approaches to learning health issues, will know what knowledge and skills necessary for the implementation of a healthy lifestyle. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to find and gather relevant and appropriate information about the connection of risk factors affecting health with specific diseases, will understand the purpose of learning health issues, will be able to form habits to live and work in a healthy environment in order to reduce or avoid diseases, will be able to choose suitable preventive measures, will be able to recognize unhealthy behavior and evaluate relevant information, will understand their own and other people's needs, their impact on physical and mental health, the impact of life habits on the quality of personal life and health. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On completing the course students will be able to select and analyse scientific - research approaches to health issues and will be able to integrate knowledge and skills acquired during the course into the analysis of specific individual or public health situations. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Veselības pašnovērtējums Latvijā 2022. gadā | ||||||||
| 2 | Sabiedrības veselības pamatnostādnes 2021.–2027.gadam, | ||||||||
| 3 | Veselības veicināšanas un slimību profilakses plāns. Rīga, 2022 | ||||||||
| 4 | Veselību ietekmējošo paradumu pētījumi | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Vecums nav šķērslis. Nordplus. Mācību materiāli: 1.modulis, 2. modulis. Rīga, 2019-2023 | ||||||||
| 2 | World Health Statistics 2022: Monitoring health for the SDGs sustainable development goals / World Health Organization. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kristapsone S. Dzīves kvalitāte. Nacionālā bibliotēka, 2022 | ||||||||
| 4 | Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.likumi.lv | ||||||||
| 2 | www.rsu.lv | ||||||||
| 3 | RSU bibliotēkas mājaslapa | ||||||||
| 4 | LR Autortiesību likums | ||||||||
| 5 | http://www.vmnvd.gov.lv/ | ||||||||
| 6 | http://www.who.com | ||||||||
| 7 | http://www.spkc.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 8 | www.ldusa.lv | ||||||||
