Kontakt, 2010 (vol. 12), issue 1
Víme, co je zdravotně sociální?Editorial
Jiří Šimek
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):5-6 
What are the opinions of nurses concerning their occupational relationships with physicians?Nursing
Sylva Bártlová, Marie Trešlová
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):7-19 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.002
The problem of occupational relationships between physicians and nurses is studied worldwide. The target of the research is to reveal, based on research examination of the relationship nurse-physician, main areas and causes of these problems and found whether the quality of the relationship nurse-physician in the Czech Republic affects their satisfaction with work, risk of burnout syndrome, fluctuation of nurses and, last but not least, whether it also affects the quality of taking care of patients. The sociological quantitative research, which employed the technique of controlled interviews of the interviewer with physicians and nurses were supplemented...
Transfer of competences between physician and nurseNursing
Sylva Bártlová, Hana Hajduchová
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):20-33 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.003
The problem of competences is an area considerably affecting the position of nurses in multidisciplinary teams and also relationships between the physician and nurse. Based on a sociological quantitative research, which employed the technique of controlled interviews of the interviewer with the physician and nurse, opinions concerning relationships between the nurse and physician including the transfer of competences between them were ascertained. Within the framework of the research, in agreement with the project, 535 physicians and 537 general nurses were included into the sample group. These respondents were selected based on a random choice with...
Humanistic care according to the model by Margaret Jean WatsonNursing
Pavel Scholz, Valérie Tóthová
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):34-38 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.004
The contribution presented here deals with philosophic and theoretical aspects of the conceptual model by M. J. Watson and its possible application to the nursing practice. Any scientific discipline including its theory and theoretical models is based on certain philosophy and philosophic view. In the field of nursing, conceptual models form a bridge between philosophy, theory and practice. The use of the conceptual models in practice facilitates the communication between nurses and provides a systematic attitude to the nursing practice, education, administrative work and research. Changes in healthcare systems at economic and legislative levels impose...
Consideration of disability since January 2010Health and Social Sciences
Libuše Čeledová, Alena Zvoníková
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):39-46 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.005
The article acquaints the reader with the delimitation of three degrees of disability effective since January 2010 based on the amended law on retirement insurance and new legal arrangement of the consideration of the health condition and degree of the decrease in the ability to work and disability, which was arranged as a result of a cooperation between the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and J. E. Purkyně Czech Medical Society in 2007-2009. The article shows that the basic and starting cause of disability is always a health involvement, which must exert the nature of a long-term adverse health condition. The long-term adverse health condition...
Selected aspects of nourishment in school-aged youth in the Slovak RepublicHealth and Social Sciences
Martina Bašková
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):47-54 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.006
Adequate nourishment is an important condition for the growth in the period of adolescence. The structure of meals should correspond to the basic food pyramid and it should be in agreement with recommended nutritional doses for the appropriate age category and gender. The project Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) represents one of the first international cross-sectional studies focused on health of adolescents and behaviour associated with health.The target of the present contribution is to show certain findings in the field of nutritional habits and behaviour associated with food resulting from the research HBSC, which was implemented...
The health condition of immigrants at a selected locality of the Czech Republic: II - dependence, nourishment, transportHealth and Social Sciences
Iva Brabcová, Alena Machová, Miluše Vítečková
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):55-66 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.007
The article acquaints the reader with results of the project "Health condition of immigrants at a selected locality in the Czech Republic - A Pilot Study" which was implemented from May to December 2008. The scope of the research was searching for a relationship between the social situation and health condition of immigrants at a selected locality in the Czech Republic with the help of ten Social Determinants of Health. The article presents results of three themes: dependence, nourishment and transport.The project was implemented by a qualitative method, by using the technique of a structured interview with open questions. It was performed in the...
Quality of life and free time activities of children after bone marrow transplantationHealth and Social Sciences
Denisa Schwetzová, Věra Vránová
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):67-73 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.008
In developed countries including the Czech Republic, tumours are the second most frequent cause of death in children. Advances achieved in the treatment of tumour diseases in children are very dramatic and belong to the greatest achievements of medicine. The bone marrow transplantation belongs to the most modern treatment methods and is employed not only in the treatment of haematological malignant conditions but also in the treatment of solid tumours. The first target of our contribution is a brief specification of the problems of the quality of life. We offer different definitions of the quality of life by different authors and point out that this...
Social aspects of competences of crisis managersHealth and Social Sciences
Vladimír Míka
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):74-82 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.009
The reality of the life ever more urgently presents the task of readiness to solving problems, which are characterized by the endangerment of lives, safety and property of people. Specific conditions for the solution of crisis situations of different nature are also determined by requirements for expert physical and mental readiness of management subjects.The target of the article is to specify requirements for the crisis manager personality, and in confrontation with other opinions, to delimit the structure and characterize contents of competences of crisis managers, and based on this, to explain the social and psychological dimension of knowledge,...
Chivalrous ethics (notes to the historical development of professional ethics)Health and Social Sciences
Jan Vitoň
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):83-90 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.010
In the course of the historical development of the human society, its moral principles and conditions are necessarily varied in association with the social position and resulting participation of individuals and groups in the power. At the beginning, the intuitively perceived need of the mutual positive ethical interaction resulting from the self-preservation instinct was finding its reflection in annals, chronicles, medieval knightly epic and lyric poetry and romances in the developing European feudal society, which were supposed to form a more or less viable sample worthy of following; in later periods, the most different requirements, of course...
Reflex affecting of muscle tone by proprioreceptive input - theoretical starting pointsBiomedicine
Eva Macková, Ivan Dylevský
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):91-99 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.011
The work presented here offers an analysis of the literature dealing with the rigidity and tone of skeletal muscles, spasticity and mechanoreceptors in the locomotor apparatus, nerve reflexes associated with the muscle tone control and topographic and directional specificity between the skin and intensity of the stretching reflex and H-reflex of skeletal muscles. The purpose of the search for the literature is to provide a scientific basis for a derivation of hypotheses for dissertation theses, the scope of which is the effect of the skin receptor stimulation on the muscle tone in selected muscles in healthy individuals and in patients with central...
Role of glutamate in neurodegenerative changes in the hippocampus caused by stressBiomedicine
Petr Zach, Jana Mrzílková, Karel Valeš
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):100-104 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.012
The experimental use of corticoids is focused on simulation of processes commonly occurring in the organism or in the treatment with these substances. High corticoid levels exert negative effects particularly on memory structures of the CNS such as the hippocampus. High glucocorticoid levels reduce CRH levels through the feedback loop mechanism. In contrast, elevated CRH levels negatively affect the amount of glucocorticoids circulating in the blood. In a number of diseases (as for example posttraumatic stress disorder or Alzheimer disease) there are high levels of glucocorticoids. Glucocorticoids are mediators of the stress reaction (flight or fight)...
Epidemiology of tuberculosis - reaction to BCG vaccineBiomedicine
Pavel Fošum, Vladimír Príkazský
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):105-111 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.013
Based on skeletal demonstrations, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis occurred as soon as in the Neolith. According to the statistics by the World Health Organization, nine million people gets tuberculosis every year worldwide and above three million people die due to this disease annually. The purpose of the work was to describe the rate of the vaccination, time and occurrence of reactions after the vaccination with Bacile Calmette Gérin [BCG] vaccine on first days of the life. We established three hypotheses: H1 - The occurrence of undesirable effects after the BCG vaccine is rather frequent; H2 - The side effects after the BCG vaccination and further...
Recenze na knihyReviews
Jan Vitoň, Iveta Nádaská
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):112-114
ZprávyNews
Havránková R., Navrátil L., Šafr G., Šimák M., Prouza D.
Kontakt 2010, 12(1):115-118