Syllabus
Health determinants and possibilities to influence them. Factors supporting health prevention strategy.
Health literacy and its role in health care, development priorities.
Methods of education towards healthy lifestyle respecting health as a state of physical, mental and social well-being. Basics of mental hygiene.
Role of special educator in the decision process of their own health-related behavior, health and safety of pupils.
Objectives and content of Health education for pupils with special educational needs.
Comprehensive solution to issues of health-risk behavior of pupils.
Information background for the field of health promotion, selective approach to information.
Annotation
The course presents essential paradigms of health promotion in relation to the profession of special educator. It deals with the issues of health literacy and its development priority.
Education towards healthy lifestyle is considered intentional creating of opportunities to identify possible ways to promote health and the starting point for necessary behavior changes. The course is based on WHO Programme ('Health 2020'), the expected outcomes defined by Human and Health Curriculum and National strategy of primary risk behavior prevention of pupils.
It analyses health determinants in the context of personal and professional needs of special educator.