Journal of Nursing, Social Studies, Public Health and Rehabilitati, 2011 (vol. 2), issue 3-4

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH IN MEMBERS OF THE MONGOLIAN MINORITY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Valérie Tóthová, Věra Veisová, Helena Michálková, Monika Jelečková

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):219-228 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.016  

Health is a fundamental prerequisite for the quality of human life and prosperity in general, as well as a condition for satisfaction of other needs. Health is important for everyone and we should all participate in its improvement.It is not only health workers who play an important role in activities directed towards keeping people healthy and improving their health condition; other specialists and political representatives should be engaged in this kind of activity as well. Personal participation and the responsibility of individuals for their own health are extremely important. The concepts related to the individual person's care for their own...

POSSIBILITIES OF USING THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH (ICF) BY GONIOMETRY AND MUSCLE TESTING IN PHYSIOTHERAPY

Zuzana Drábová, Marek Zeman, Miriam Ištoňová, Ludmila Brůhová

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):229-238 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.017  

Introduction: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is the evaluation that has been elaborated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and forms the conceptual frame for description of the disability. Today, relevant classification codes for persons with disability must be specified in the patient healthcare documentation in accordance with Communication No. 431/2009 Coll. (introduced into clinical practice in the Czech Republic by ICF starting from 1 July 2010). The objective of the article is to show or suggest, as appropriate, the options of assignment of ICF qualifier codes according to examinations performed...

THE ISSUE OF DIAGNOSTICS OF CHILDREN CEREBRAL PALSY IN RELATION TO PROVISION OF HEALTHCARE IN THE DISTRICT OF TEPLICE

Dana Šlechtová

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):239-254 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.018  

Children cerebral palsy (CCP) is a chronic non-progressive disease characterised by an disorder of locomotion and development of locomotion resulting from damage caused to the developing brain in prenatal, perinatal, and early postnatal period. The scope of motoric handicap and occurrence of associated deficits in the area of sensoric systems or in the area of cognitive functions represents those factors that influence the individual's life in all areas. From research in the area of provision of healthcare to a child with CCP from the point of holistic approach it has followed that the recommended procedure for general practitioners relating to CCP...

CHILD SUICIDE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC FROM 2002-2009

Dominika Průchová

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):255-263 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.019  

In recent years, the suicide rate among children and adolescents has been increasing. Seen over the long term, the overall suicide rate in the Czech Republic has been decreasing since the 1970s, while during the last ten years we can see that the number of suicide cases among juveniles has been increasing. The epidemiology of suicidal behaviour is a significant indicator of the health condition of the population. There are numerous risk factors in terms of child suicide: demographic, family-related, cognitive, emotional, behavioural, and neurobiological, along with other factors such as the environment, psychiatric disease, aggression, impulsiveness...

MOTIVATION FOR USING ILLEGAL DRUGS AT FREETEKNO PARTIES

Alena Kajanová, Aneta Klečacká

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):264-269 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.020  

The knowledge acquired about the freetechno subculture by the general public in the Czech Republic has been obtained exclusively through its negative image associated with consumption of socially illegal drugs as it is depicted in the mass media and which has also been substantiated with results of addictological and sociological surveys.The objective of our paper is to identify whether there is a connection between the type of drugs used at freetekno parties and the freetekno subculture in the sense of subjectively perceived connection between the type of used drugs and the specific type of a dance party. Another objective is to outline whether...

Review

IMPACT OF PRENATAL NUTRITION ON THE CEREBRAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFANT

Claus Muss

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):139-154 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.010  

It is well documented that malnutrition in pregnancy is of increasing concern in both the developing and developed world, resulting in poor health of children. Various serious diseases in childhood have been attributed to malnutrition in maternity. Latest research links maternal malnutrition with dysfunction of the higher brain in children. It has been hypothesised from animal trials, that prenatal nutrition has a strong impact on the neurological development of the infant. Especially the content of unsaturated fats and certain phospholipids seem to be essential for the cerebral function of the foetus. There is a strong body of evidence pointing especially...

PRENATAL PERIOD OF LIFE AS A MATRIX FOR OUR LIVES AND OUR SOCIETIES - A CULTURAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL SPECULATION

Ludwig Janus

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):155-164 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.011  

The personal historical significance of the prenatal and perinatal period has been researched and described at the individual level by prenatal psychology in many ways. The collective psychological significance of the prenatal and perinatal period has also been repeatedly reflected upon by individual prenatal psychologists without these thoughts receiving wider notice. The following contribution is therefore to gather together again important aspects of this topic, whereby "physiological premature birth", typical of humans, receives special attention.

MORE THAN NEIGHBORS: A COMMON BASIS FOR RELATIONSHIP-CENTERED MEDICINE AND SCIENCE

Hans von Lüpke

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):165-173 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.012  

Causal linearity is still one of the fundaments in scientific thinking. It remains unquestioned in spite of the fact that scientific results in important fields of human life such as genetics and brain function obviously do not follow linearity. Instead, they follow non linear laws as conceptualized in the Chaos Theory, the concepts of complexity or the quantum theory. Because of the fact that the same dynamics can also be found in relational oriented dialogic communication, the traditional gap between natural sciences and humanities seems to vanish. It appears that there has not been made use of the resulting open space for creative interdisciplinary...

CURRENT PROBLEMS OF THE CZECH STATE-CONTRIBUTORY SUPPLEMENTARY PENSION INSURANCE

Jan Molek, Martin Šimák, Petra Molková

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):174-189 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.013  

State-contributory supplementary pension insurance is a popular product in the Czech Republic. According to the Association of Pension Funds of the Czech Republic, as of 31 December 2010 the pension funds kept files of approximately 4.54 million participants, with savings amounting some 216,109 billion crowns. In the long run, the pension funds show stabilized financial results (however, in return for low revenue). Although the pension funds have always reached positive or at least zero appreciation of clients' savings (as it was required by law), once you have included the inflation rate, the situation becomes very different. Regulatory restrictions...

ISSUES IN THE DEFINITIONS OF HRQoL

Elena Gurková

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):190-197 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.014  

Within literature there exists confusion about the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) concept. However, clarity in the meaning of HRQoL is critically important, because confusion hinders progress in research and applications in clinical practice. HRQoL is used as an umbrella term to cover a wide range of patient reported outcomes including measures of health status, living conditions or well-being. The paper reviews the literature and discusses the important issues regarding the conceptualisation of health related quality of life in health sciences. It provides a brief description of historical development; concepts/definitions and clinical application...

SIGNIFICANCE OF NITRATE, NITRITE AND NITROSAMINES IN NUTRITION

Miroslav Stransky

JNSS 2011, 2(3-4):212-218 | DOI: 10.32725/jnss.2011.015  

Nitrate is a natural and essential part of plants, its concentration in plants depends on a number of factors. Its compounds are used in food industry as preservatives. In production of cheeses, nitrate additive prevents formation of gases. The main source of nitrate in foodstuffs is vegetables, drinkable water and pickled products. Foodstuffs usually contain immaterial amount of nitrite, the source is mainly pickled meat products. Endogenous formation of nitrite from nitrate is however of substantially greater significance. In stomach, nitrite forms nitrosamines together with amines, amides and amino acids that have carcinogenic effect. The concentration...