Occupational Therapy in Public Health (REK_287)
About Study Course
Objective
Gain knowledge and understanding of public health issues and realize the potential of occupational therapy as a health and social care specialty to be a health-promoting profession. To learn the skills to plan and implement occupational therapy interventions for raising the level of public health, respecting and realizing equal rights.
Prerequisites
Basics of occupational therapy, conceptual practice models, assessment and classification of functional ability limitations, occupation and cultural environment, research methods, ergonomics/work, somatic diseases, psychiatry in occupational therapy, general rehabilitation, clinical practice in somatic medicine I.
Learning outcomes
After course acquisition student will be able to:
• Explain the concept of health, functioning and disability;
• Characterize the interaction between occupation and health;
• Characterize the factors affecting health and health habits of the Latvian population;
• Explain the disease incidence variables (incidence, prevalence);
• Explain the occupational deprivation concept, identify risk populations and describe influencing factors;
• Name and describe the basic principles of health promotion in occupational therapy;
• Name and describe the levels of prevention;
• Name and describe the occupational needs assessment methods;
• Characterize the community based rehabilitation strategy;
• Explain the concept of quality of life and health-related quality of life.
After course acquisition student will be able to:
• Select, collect and use key information on public health and the health habits of Latvian inhabitants;
• Select and summarize national and local legislation on health care and social services for persons with disabilities and other groups at risk;
• Apply the disease incidence calculations and public health statistics;
• Identify occupational deprivation risks;
• Assess, describe and analyze the target group occupational needs;
• To formulate occupational therapy goals and objectives, according to the public health problems;
• Identify methods of occupational therapy and rehabilitation strategies;
• Realize the occupational therapy intervention in the local context;
• Create a presentation of occupational therapy intervention in the local context.
• analyze and interpret information about the public health situation and the health habits of Latvian citizens;
• analyze and interpret information on the provision of health care and social services to persons with disabilities and other risk groups;
• interpret disease frequency calculation data;
• demonstrate skills in independent information search (scientific literature, legislation, statistical data, etc.), critical thinking and analysis;
• the student will be able to describe the activity needs of the target group and will be familiar with methods of assessment of activity needs;
• the student will be able to formulate the purpose and tasks of the project, in accordance with the identified problems of the need for the activity;
• the student will know how to form partnerships with the target group for the implementation of interventions to eliminate the identified problems;
• will identify occupational therapy methods and rehabilitation strategies/interventions in the local context;
• will know how to plan the implementation of an occupational therapy project for risk populations in a local context.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupational Therapy, RFE | 6 | Bachelor’s | Required | Zane Liepiņa |
