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Social Pediatrics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:18.01.2023 13:29:22
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PEK_016 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Paediatrics | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Elīna Aleksejeva | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Paediatrics | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 45 Vienibas gatve, pk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67621730 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, pathological physiology, internal diseases and State health care organisation. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To promote the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and the development of practical skills and attitudes necessary for a public health specialist working with children. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Social paediatrics and its relationship to other sciences. Children’s state of health in Latvia. Demographic situation in the country. Health promotion in childhood. Development of a healthy personality. The role of the family in the process of child growth and development. Family types. Behaviour that affects health. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Communication with the child and their relatives – the process of taking anamnesis, the rules and forms thereof. Growth and development of a healthy child (physical, mental, social, sexual development). The most common developmental disorders. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Feeding in childhood. Structural and functional features of digestive organs in children. Health problems related to inadequate nutrition. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Immunity, development and importance thereof in a growing organism. Allergies in childhood – clinical manifestations, possible prevention. Acute infectious diseases in children. Intestinal infection, HIV. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Children with special needs. Inherited and congenital health problems, metabolic pathologies. Children with chronic diseases and nervous system problems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Child abuse. Shaken baby syndrome. Sudden death syndrome, possible prevention. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Communication with the child and their relatives – the process of taking anamnesis, the rules and forms thereof. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 8 | Growth and development of a healthy child (physical, mental, social, sexual development). The most common developmental disorders. Children with low birth weight. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 9 | Rational child nutrition. Structural and functional features of digestive organs in children. Breastfeeding a child. Artificial nutrition. Promotion and protection of breastfeeding. International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes. Feeding healthy children after 1-2 years of age. A woman’s diet during pregnancy and lactation. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 10 | The most common health problems in early childhood (rickets, Fe deficiency, anaemia, acute respiratory diseases). Children with allergic diseases (bronchial asthma). | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| 11 | Children with special needs. Inherited and congenital health problems, metabolic pathologies. Children with chronic diseases and nervous system problems. Children at risk of neglect or abuse. | Classes | 1.00 | clinical base | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student’s independent work includes preparing and presenting presentations during classes. The study course is implemented through practical classes, in which students together with the teaching staff analyse the theoretical material, solve situational tasks, discuss clinical cases, participate in clinic conferences, councils. During the classes, students conduct clinical examinations of patients and work with medical histories. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | During the study programme, students’ knowledge is tested with multiple-choice tests, presentation and discussion of clinical cases; at the end of the cycle of lectures and classes – a written exam on all topics covered during the cycle. Final assessment is calculated as follows: (50% average grade in classes + 50% (online) exam grade)/2. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | To assess the child’s growth and development; know the factors affecting the child’s health; describe the demographic situation in Latvia; describe the principles of health promotion and the features of personality formation in children, the factors affecting it; to know the principles of feeding a child and health problems related to nutrition; describe children with special needs and the most common health problems at different ages; to have a good knowledge of children’s infectious diseases and prevention thereof, the influence of social and environmental factors on the child. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To assess demographic indicators, evaluate infant and child mortality rates, evaluate natural population growth rates, evaluate health-related factors; evaluate the data characterising the child’s health, establish contact with the child, their parents; listening and inquiry skills, find out the anamnesis of life, family, illness from children of different ages and their relatives; formulate the problem and find solutions thereto; find out the anamnesis of the child’s growth and development; practically perform anthropometric measurements, evaluate the obtained results and compare them with standard tables; evaluate the child’s psychomotor development and compare it with the Denver scale; determine and evaluate gender development in case of growth and development disorders – establish an observation and rehabilitation plan. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To organise care for a child with health problems (including children with special needs), find out possible risk factors and evaluate them; recognise the most common diseases; organise care for children with inherited and congenital pathologies; prepare a follow-up care plan; explain to the parents the processes taking place in the child’s body, obtain data and evaluate the child’s growth and development, feeding at different ages: find out anamnesis data about the child’s previous feeding; evaluate the child’s feeding in the past and now; evaluate the effectiveness of feeding; give advice to the parents; create a plan of preventive measures, including in case of various infectious diseases; to have good knowledge of the national immunisation programme, the vaccination calendar for children and adolescents, to be able to justify the necessity and safety of vaccination, to be able to justify it to opponents of vaccination. To be able to assess the possible risk of abuse, identify and recognise an abused child; determine the type of abuse; create a sense of security for the child; to organise individual assistance for abused children and adolescents; organise an individual assistance plan for abused children and adolescents. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Pediatrijas katedras mācību metodiskie materiāli. | ||||||||
| 2 | Mācību metodiskie materiāli Sociālajā pediatrijā, SVF 3. studija gada studentiem - e-vidē. | ||||||||
| 3 | Metodiskie materiāli Pediatrijā, prof. Gardovskas redakcijā. RSU Pediatrijas katedra, 2004. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 21st Edition. Kliegman, Robert M. 2020 (e-vide pieejama RSU bibliotēkā ClinicalKey datu bāzē) | ||||||||
| 2 | Veselības aprūpes statistika. | ||||||||
| 3 | "Pārskats par bērnu stāvokli Latvijā 2014.gadā" | ||||||||
| 4 | Sabiedrības veselības aģentūra. „Traumatisms un ārējie nāves cēloņi bērniem un jauniešiem”. Rīga, 2007 | ||||||||
| 5 | Konvencija par bērnu tiesībām | ||||||||
| 6 | Sabiedrības veselības stratēģija. LR Ministru kabineta sēdes protokols Nr.10, 2001. | ||||||||
| 7 | Vakcinācijas kalendārs | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | LR Centrālā statistikas pārvalde. Iedzīvotāju skaits un demogrāfiskie rādītāji. | ||||||||
| 2 | Latvijas veselības aprūpes statistikas gadagrāmata, 2014 | ||||||||
| 3 | Veselības ministrijas izstrādātie veselīga uztura ieteikumi. | ||||||||
| 4 | Vadlīnijas bērnu un pusaudžu attīstības izvērtēšanai, 2013 | ||||||||
