Course: health literacy

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Course title health literacy
Course code KAZ/ZDGQ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cichá Martina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Tománková Kristína, RNDr. PhD.
  • Hřivnová Michaela, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Terminology (health, disease, health literacy, health determinants, lifestyle, active approach to health, health promotion); theories of health and illness; protective and risk lifestyle factors (notably nutrition and physical activity), non-infectious epidemics such as frequent causes of death and their prevention; educator and health of pupils (health and safety); health education in the curriculum of the educational system in the Czech Republic; Presentation of organizations, programs and projects to promote health and healthy lifestyles with an emphasis on pupils 2nd grade elementary school. Topics tasks: Nutrition recommendations for elementary school pupil; eating and drinking habits of 2nd st. elementary school; FEP analysis with regard to health promotion and health education; Teachers responsibility for protecting the health of pupils legislative action; Analysis of projects to promote health on a regional and national level; prevention of non-infectious epidemic in childhood; lifestyle and its positive and negative effects on children's health.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
  • Semestral Work - 7 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 28 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 21 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
After the completing of the course students should be able to: - define basic teories and models of health and illness - explain the health determinants including the lifestyle areas - describe the principle of prevention (especially primary or general) - justify the influence of lifestyle and access to health on the development of non-infectious epidemics (civilization diseases) - argue for an active approach to health and responsibility for their health and others - clarify the relationship between the teacher's responsibility and health of pupils - interpret the implementation of health promotion to the curriculum documents (particularly FEP BE 2013) - demonstrate the elementary knowledge of projects and programs to the health promote
the same as the objectives of the course
Prerequisites
no specific prerequisites are required

Assessment methods and criteria
Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Dialog, Seminar Work

Each student prepares a seminar paper on a given topic, which will be in the range of max. 5 A4 pages and delivered in the LMS Unifor least a week before granting the colloquium. Monitoring and evaluation of the individual work of a tutor is a prerequisite for the possibility of acceding to the colloquium.
Recommended literature
  • & Kopecký, M. (2012). Úvod do výchovy ke zdraví a zdravému životnímu stylu. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
  • Holčík, J., & Zástěra, K. (2014). Zdraví 2020: osnova evropské zdravotní politiky pro 21. století. Praha: Ministerstvo zdravotnictví ČR.
  • Holčík, J. (2010). Systém péče o zdraví a zdravotní gramotnost: k teoretickým základům cesty ke zdraví. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
  • Hřivnová, M. . Lexikon dobré praxe: výchova ke zdraví a zdravému životnímu stylu v mateřské škole..
  • Hřivnová, M. (2010). Stěžejní aspekty výchovy ke zdraví. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
  • Hřivnová, M. (2014). Základní aspekty výživy. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
  • Kotulán a kol. Zdravotní nauky pro pedagogy.
  • Machová, J., & Kubátová, D. (2009). Výchova ke zdraví. Praha: Grada.


Study plans that include the course
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