Course: Health issues of childhood for teachers

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Course title Health issues of childhood for teachers
Course code KPG/Z1PD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
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)
  • Holubová Yashasvi, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The complex view of the man in the health and disease. The programs of the protection and support of the health. The contemporary classification of diseases. 2. The needs, rights and duties of children. The family: its function, family failure, substitute family care. 3. The contemporary system of the children´s care: the ambulatory primary care, the bed care, the development of the preventive aiming of the pediatrics. 4. The dividing of the children´s age: the features of the particular period. The specification of the younger school age, the secular trend. 5. The chidren´s daily regime: sleeping, food, activity, the children´s hygiene, healthy life manner. 6. The immunity: active creation of antibodies, passive transfer of antibodies, vaccination. 7. The prevention and the early detection of diseases: primary, secondary, tertiary prevention, health support, health education and the health literacy. 8. The children´s examination: the anamnesis (family, personal, the contemporary disease), the objective children´s examination (the evaluation of the whole children´s behaviour, the physical examination, the determination of the working diagnostics). 9. The acute states of the breathlessness: the aspiration, the inflammation in the larynx area, the inflammations of the lower respiratory tracts, the acute asthmatic attack. The children´s care - the teacher´s role. 10. The injuries and the poisoning: polytraumas, head injuries, the injuries of a chest and an abdomen, serious bleeding, heat injury, the children´s poisoning. The children´s care - the teacher´s role. 11. The serious allergic reactions: the spasms in the children´s age. The children´s care - the teacher´s role. 12. The infection diseases of the children´s age: virus hepatitises, exant diseases, borreliosis, parasite illness. 13. The chosen chronic diseases.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 16 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 18 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
- the knowledge of the man´s biology in the extent of the secondary school curriculum.
Skills
- the basics of giving the laic first aid.
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
- to describe the programs for health protection and support,
- to define the children needs, rights and duties,
- to characterize the particular period of the children age with an accent on the early school age,
- to distinguish between the active and passive immunization,
- to explain an importance of vaccination,
- to explain an importance of the child's medical examination, including the collection of anamnestic data,
- to describe the symptoms and progress of chosen infection diseases,
- to describe the symptoms and progress of chosen chronic diseases.
Skills
- to give an adequate care to a pupil in the acute state of the breathlessness (asthma) - the teacher's position,
- to give an adequate care to a pupil with the injury or poisoning - the teacher's position,
- to give an adequate care to a pupil with the spasm - the teacher's position,
- to give an adequate care to a pupil with the allergic reaction - the teacher's position.
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Task-based study method
Textual studies
E-learning
Self-study of literature
Individual study
Skills
Lecture
Task-based study method
Textual studies
E-learning
Self-study of literature
Individual study
Competences
Lecture
Task-based study method
Textual studies
E-learning
Self-study of literature
Individual study
assessment methods
Knowledge
Written exam
Seminar work
Skills
Written exam
Seminar work
Competences
Written exam
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • Fialová, L., Flemr, L., Marádová, E., Mužík, V. Vzdělávací oblast: Člověk a zdraví v současné škole.. Praha: Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-2462-885-1.
  • Franěk, O. & Trčková, P. První pomoc pro školy. V souladu s doporučenými mezinárodními postupy Guidelines 2021. Praha. 2021.
  • Kalman, M., Vašíčková, J. (eds.). Zdraví a životní styl dětí a školáků.. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci., 2013. ISBN 978-80-244-3409-4.
  • Klíma, J. et al. Pediatrie pro nelékařské zdravotnické obory.. Praha: Grada, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-5014-9.
  • KŘÍŽOVÁ, E. Zdraví - kultura - společnost. Praha: Karolinum, 2018. ISBN 978-80-246-3937-6.
  • Kukla, L. et al. Sociální a preventivní pediatrie v současném pojetí.. Praha: Grada, 2016. ISBN 978-80-247-3874-1.
  • Machová, J. Biologie člověka pro učitele.. Praha: Karolinum, 2016. ISBN 978-80-2463-357-2.
  • Orel, M. et al. Somatopatologie.. Praha: Grada, 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-4714-9.
  • STÁTNÍ ZDRAVOTNÍ ÚSTAV. Zdravotní stav. Výsledky studie - Zdraví dětí 2016. Odborná zpráva za rok 2016.. Praha: SZÚ, 2017. ISBN -.
  • Stožický, F., Sýkora, J. et al. Základy dětského lékařství.. Praha: Karolinum, 2016. ISBN 978-80-2462-997-1.
  • Trčková, P., Franěk, O. & Vlk, R. Metodická příručka pro výuku první pomoci na základních školách. V souladu s doporučenými mezinárodními postupy Guidelines 2021. Praha. 2021.


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