Syllabus
1. Literacy and health literacy.
2. Human health as a phenomenon and course subject.
3. Meaning of health and illness in human life.
4. Basic theories of health and illness.
5. Health and upbringing.
6. European health strategy and selected program documents.
7. Working with health and medical information.
8. Measurement and evaluation of the level of health literacy in population.
Annotation
Course is aimed at secondary literacy problematics in relation to person's health. Problems of theory of health and illness are covered in greater detail.
Furthermore different views on health and illness in cultural and historical contexts are analyzed as well as myths relating to the meaning of health in human life. Emphasis is given to the influence of upbringing on forming health related human behavior.
Course comes out from ideas of European health strategy, which works with the concept of health literacy as a requirement to take responsibility for one's own health.