Women Health (DUGK_018)
About Study Course
Objective
To acquire knowledge about female sexual and reproductive health and factors influencing it.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of female anatomy, physiology, most common diseases, health care organization, ethics.
Learning outcomes
Sexual and reproductive life, factors affecting it. Sexual health indicators. Family planning – public education, methods, availability, selection criteria. Sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. Youth-friendly services. Situation in Latvia. Infectious effects on reproductive health. STD's, pelvic inflammatory disease. TORCH infections. Antenatal care of healthy pregnant woman. Common physiological changes and complaints of pregnant woman. Physical activity during pregnancy. Risk groups of pregnant women. Health problems and effects on pregnancy. Smoking, drug abuse during pregnancy. Getting ready of giving birth. Home birth – concerns, advantages. Common problems of obstetrics that are affecting public health (women knowledge and attitude towards the child's health, women knowledge of physiological childbirth and obstetrical analgesia options, premature labor, operative delivery, increase of caesarean operations, their impact on women's health, doctor-patient relations). Support of perinatal death. Advantages of breastfeeding. Public health strategic directions. Maternal and child health strategic directions: maternal and child health care, restriction of abortion and safe family planning methods, accessibility, education of youth on sexual and reproductive health issues, genital infections / HIV prevention, infertility treatment services. Violence against women.
To identify public health care system problems in reproductive health medicine related to women's health: maternal and newborn health care, decreasing of unsafe abortion and availability of safe family planning methods, education of society on topics related to sexual and reproductive health, decreasing the incidence of HIV and other reproductive tract infections. Maintaining quality of life of women during postmenopause period
To give public health advice on prevention of female sexual and reproductive heath problems.
