Kontakt, 2011 (vol. 13), issue 4
Journals with impact factors and domestic journals requiring reviews of manuscripts focused on nursingEditorial
Sylva Bártlová, Ivan Pfeifer, Jana Hercová
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):389-395 
Development of the number of journals in the field of nursing having impact factors and of the number of domestic journals in this branch having no impact factor but requiring reviews was investigated. Within the scope of the present investigation, the technique of analyzing written documents was employed. The numbers of journals having the impact factor (IF) and publishing works in the field of research of nursing were determined from the databases of the journal citation reports (JCR) in two editions including the research of nursing - JCR Science Edition (Sci. Ed.) and JCR Social Science Edition (Soc. Sci. Ed.). The journals without impact factor...
Analysis of selected clinical practice guidelines and standards of pressure ulcers managementNursing
Dorota Wojnarová, Darja Jarošová
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):396-403 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.043
The purpose of the study presented here was to use the AGREE instrument for the implementation of the methodological analysis of the quality of processing selected clinical practice guidelines focused on problems of pressure ulcers, and furthermore to find differences between particular recommended clinical procedures in the field of prevention of the decubitus development and recommended preventive strategies.The clinical practice guidelines (CPG) were searched for in electronic databases (G-I-N, Medline, Embase, ProQuest, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge) based on the following key words: pressure ulcers, pressure sore, decubitus, prevention,...
Taking care of newborns in the Czech Republic and in the South-Bohemian Region in 2010Nursing
Milan Hanzl, Radka Pudíková
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):404-411 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.044
The communication presented here acquaints the reader with the development of the number of live-births from all-state and regional view points. In addition to the newborn mortality, it is aimed at an adverse trend in the incidence of newborns with low birth-weight and at its main causes. In the next part, the attention is paid to the level of taking care of newborns of extreme birth-weight. In the last part, the authors also bring information on the development of children having birth-weight under 1500 g at their corrected age of 24 months.The work is based on a secondary analysis of data from national data bases of the JE Purkyně Czech Neonatological...
Hospice and palliative care in children with cancer diseaseNursing - Review
Denisa Schwetzová, Věra Vránová, Šárka Ježorská
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):412-418 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.045
Over the last ten years, the consideration of the palliative care as an important theme of public health and health politics has been declared by the World Health Organization and European Council. The palliative care is sometimes being particularly taken into account as certain specific philosophy of taking care applied by extraordinarily motivated individuals in their clinical practice. The motivation and dedication of individual healthcare professionals is of obvious importance. The palliative care should be considered in wider context to provide the availability of quality palliative care for diseased children at the end of life. In the paediatric...
Socially excluded locality as seen by its inhabitantsHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Alena Kajanová, Dagmar Dvořáčková
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):419-424 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.046
The contribution, which is an outcome of socio-ethnographic research, is focused on problems of socially excluded municipal localities, which are inhabited by a prevalently strongly heterogeneous Romany population, in the Czech Republic. These localities are typically characterized by a low socio-economic status of their inhabitants, which is closely related to a symbolic exclusion and high concentration of social-pathological phenomena.In the contribution presented here, the author particularly deals with a socially excluded (Romany) locality, housing estate Máj in České Budějovice, V. Volf street, which forms a specific part in the public area...
Obesity - disease of the body as well as spiritsHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Věra Veisová
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):425-433 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.047
The varying style of life of the population, secular trends in the development or changes in nutritional habits in certain social spheres due to social-economic conditions - these are examples of factors participating in the ever increasing number of individuals suffering from excess weight and obesity. These diagnoses fall into a group of civilization diseases and their incidence is ever being increased. Specialists, such as associate professor Hainer or professor Svačina, similarly as the World Health Organization (WHO) speak directly about epidemic. Of course, in association with increasing prevalence of excess weight and obesity, amounts of financial...
Tools for assessment of quality of life in postmenopausal womenHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Markéta Moravcová, Jiří Mareš
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):434-442 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.048
In the work presented here, the authors focused their attention on problems of tools employed in the assessment of the quality of life in postmenopausal women. Basic concepts are characterized, associated with the evaluation of the quality of life in postmenopausal women. The quality of life (QoL) is a very wide, multidimensional and multidisciplinary concept. The wide nature of the concept includes a number of problems, either in its definition or in the evaluation of the quality of life of a particular individual. The health-related quality of life (HRQL) is a quality of life affected by the medical care provided, disease or health of each particular...
Health problems of taking care of children with poliomyelitis in context of holistic attitudeHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Dana Šlechtová
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):443-459 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.049
Poliomyelitis is a long-term non-progressive involvement of the posture and mobility originating based on damage to the developing brain in prenatal, perinatal and early postnatal periods. Poliomyelitis involves the individual throughout the life, the extent of the locomotor involvement and occurrence of further associated deficiencies in the field of sensory systems or cognitive functions being factors affecting the life of the individual in all the areas of his/her activities.One of targets of the research work presented here was mapping of the level of the care provided for the paediatric client with the diagnosis of poliomyelitis in the field...
Grants from the state budget obstructs development of social servicesHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Ladislav Průša
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):460-468 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.050
Principal sources for financing social services include grants provided by the Ministry of Work and Social Affairs from the state budget. Formerly performed analyses demonstrated that over the last years, considerable differences have been repeatedly found between the amounts of these grants depending on the form of the organization providing the social services as well as on particular regions. The target of the examination implemented was to analyze results of the first round of the grant procedure for 2011. Attention was focused on the analysis of results in six most important social care services, where the level of the grant was considered depending...
Hardbass as a masculine ritual: introduction to problemsHealth and Social Sciences - Review
Josef Smolík, Alena Kajanová
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):470-477 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.051
The contribution presented here is aimed at a relatively new phenomenon in the environment of youth subcultures and styles of life - hardbass. It is to state that hardbass - at least partially - is practicized by streams of youth subcultures, which are associated with neonacism or sympathizing with extreme right ideas. Hardbass is thus a further element taken over by the extreme right from the extreme left environment. Visually, this is a dance with electronic music and prevalently Russian texts (by way of analogy to taking over hardbass as a style into Czech Republic from eastern countries) in public areas, such as squares, parks, streets and also...
RADIOPROTECTIVE EFFECT OF HEPARINBiomedicine - Original article
Boris Lukashin, Alexander Grebenyuk, Victor Zatsepin
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):478-483 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.052
The study was aimed at the experimental assessment of the efficacy of heparin as radioprotector in condition of acute whole body γ-ray irradiation. The efficacy of the product was based on the 30-day survival rate and average life expectancy of dead irradiated animals. To reveal possible mechanisms of radioprotective effects of heparin the thymus mass, the number of leukocytes and colony formation units (CFU) in the peripheral blood and bone marrow were studied. It was shown that radioprotective effect of heparin administered intraperitoneally in a dose of 250 unit/kg was developed within one day after the administration and maintained for periods...
ALZHEIMEROVA CHOROBA - RIZIKOVÉ A PROTEKTÍVNE FAKTORYVaria
Ingrid Guľášová
Kontakt 2011, 13(4):484-489 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.053