Occupational Therapy in Public Health

1.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.

1.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.

1.• 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.