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Factors Influencing the Change of the Contemporary City
Dobešová, Veronika
The purpose of this contribution is to summarize the current state of discussed topics from a broader perspective of economic and social geography, as described in the book Urbane Räume, written by Prof. Dr. Wolf Gaebe. The contribution deals with residential, economic and social structures in the contemporary city. The article covers main factors defining current tendencies of citis developement and introduces major elements of this transformation. The ascertained results will create the starting position for the proper research of the public spaces development in particular citiesof the Central European region.
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Greenery an indicator of urban space quality
Pondělíček, Michael ; Doc.Ing.Vladimír Švihla,DrSc. (referee) ; Doc.Ing.arch.Ivan Vorel,CSc. (referee) ; Tušer, Jaroslav (referee) ; Koutný, Jan (advisor)
The Ph.D. Thesis is based on the principle of open approach into the urban greenery in the frame of sustainability improvement in inner cities. Sustainable inner city planning and management brings also the supply for indicators of sustainability and life quality in urban space. The Ph.D. thesis is interested in evaluation of positive and negative impact of greenery into life quality in the inner city. There is studied the impact of greenery into the human being in the city and what has influence on urban greenery too. The thesis observes existing indicators whose describe urban greenery quality and its utilizing from the point of view of sustainability and collaterally observe the greenery perception from the city inhabitant’s point of view. On the basement of analysis and theoretical knowledge including in the thesis is for urban life quality measurement constructed new aggregated indicator – the Indicator of Common Urban Greenery Quality. This indicator is in the thesis valuated on the data set of 70 Czech cities and medium sized towns. There is valuated its possibility to describe urban greenery potential. The relationship between the indicator and clime change and other urban development changes is also solved. The indicator and its mathematical construction brings new information about urban greenery potential and its impact and usage in city sustainability and urban life quality increasing.
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Impact on life quality in patients with vitiligo
MALČICOVÁ, Jana
This bachelor thesis focuses on vitiligo and its impact on the life quality of patients suffering the disease. Vitiligo is a relatively frequent acquired disorder which causes depigmentation of parts of the skin. The depigmented spots can be of different shapes and extent. Vitiligo is a chronic disease process and the actual cause of the disease is still unknown. One of the presumable causes is the immune system; this is why it is not easily cured. The treatment is a long-term process and requires great patience from both the patient and the medical team. Vitiligo is a major problem for the patient as it disturbs their physical appearance and thus influences the psychological well being of the patient; so vitiligo can also have a psychosocial impact. In our research we set two main goals. The first of them was to define the role of nurses in the treatment of vitiligo. The other goal was to enquire about the impact of vitiligo on the life quality of the patients. For the research we formulated two questions: 1.What is the role of a nurse in the treatment of a vitiligo patient? 2. What is the impact of vitiligo on the life quality of the patient? For the empirical part of the bachelor thesis we used a qualitative research method based on a semi-structured interview. The first interrogated group consisted of four nurses from the South Bohemian and the South Moravian region; these nurses work in dermatology centres that offer phototherapeutic treatment. The other group comprised patients suffering vitiligo; we interviewed three patients from Austria and one patient from the Czech Republic. The respondents suffering from vitiligo were also to complete a Dermatological Index of Life Quality questionnaire. The questionnaire was then evaluated according to a key and the results were filled into a chart. The interviews consisted of 18 questions for the vitiligo patients and 10 questions for the caring nurses. The interviews were recorded on a dictaphone and later written down and brought into a Word document. For the evaluation of the data we used the open coding method using a pencil and paper. After the data analysis we defined the following categories: The Role of Nurses with the subcategory Alterations to the Role of Nurses, category Psychological Support with subcategories Attitude of Nurses, Psychical Needs of Patients, Alterations in Psychical Condition of the Patient, category Reaction to Detection of Vitiligo with the subcategories Reaction of the Patient, Reaction of Patient´s Environment, category Psychological Problems with the subcategories Patients´ Feelings and Solution to the Problems, category First Visit to the Doctor and category Significance of Vitiligo. The research suggests that the most important aspect of the nurses´ help during the patient´s treatment is the educational aspect. The other aspects are in the opinion of our respondents the health care providing aspect, and the help of a nurse as a manager. The evaluation of the life quality questionnaire brought the following results: two respondents saw only a small impact of the disease on their life quality. One respondent stated a slightly worsened quality of life and in one of the respondents the life quality was worsened significantly. According to the interviews, the vitiligo patients are slightly restrained during activities when exposed to sun due to an easy sunburnt. None of the respondents stated an influence on their relationships or hobbies. Two respondents mentioned worries concerning finding a partner and establishing a family. Our research showed that the greatest impact of vitiligo is on the psyche of the patient. Thus we assume that a psychological support should be an essential component of the treatment. I would like to present the results of this bachelor thesis as a review in some professional magazine. I would also be glad if the thesis could be an inspiration to a quantitative research on the topic.
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Influence of Social Support on the quality of life of a family with disabled child.
KOPSOVÁ, Lenka
This Bachelorś thesis discusses the influence of social support on the quality of life of families with a disabled child. The theoretical section covers the following topics: family; the definition and types of disability; the definition of family life quality; social support (types, functions and effects), and it also specifies the existing sources of help available through social services and social benefits, which are not covered by insurance. The practical section of the thesis characterises the social support from a subjektive point of view. This thesis shows how the social support is perceived and accepted by families with disabled children and also how the social support influences their quality of life from the point of view of participation in public, cultural and working life.
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Effect of sheltered workshops and social therapeutic workshops on life quality of people with severe mental illness.
ZOUHAROVÁ, Alexandra
The bachelor thesis is concentrated on the effect of sheltered workshops and social therapeutic workshops on life quality of people with severe mental illness. The aim of this work is to determine social and working skills gained by people in workshop, what the workshop brought them and if the attendance to the workshop contributed to improvement of their life quality. This work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part informs about the basic of working rehabilitation history and deals with life quality. The following part contains brief characteristic of schizophrenia. The practical part contains informations about Sdružení Práh, describes the sheltered workshop and social terapeutic workshop. There is layed out the goal of this work, specified the hipothesises, described the method of survey, the results and evaluation of questionnaire.
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Quality of life families mentally disabled persons
ABESKOVÁ, Žaneta
We usually view a family as small social group, with its basic characteristics to be mutual co-operation of all of its individual members. They are inter-connected by a variety of relations. As each member of a family is an individual and original personality, even the created family makes an individual, original and unrepeatable social organism. This applies to each different family {--} even to families with a handicapped child. This is to say, coexistence in one or another family has the same basic characteristics. When talking of life quality of people, we may have in mind different extent of perception of a man. It is possible to talk about life quality of an individual man as well as life quality of several people, e.g. life quality in a family. The aim of the graduation thesis was to find out the life quality of families living with an individual with slight mental disorder (IQ 50-60). To find out their difference from families without any mentally handicapped individual. All of that using the PedsQL questionnaire, which is a sufficient criterion for the problems fixation. Information needed for the graduation thesis processing was obtained on the basis of specialised material studies. Quantity research was performed to map the families life quality. Data collection was performed using the questioning method {--} the questionnaire method. The questionnaire designed by James Walter Varni Ph.D. was distributed to two groups {--} families with a slightly mentally handicapped individual (IQ 50-69) and families with children, without any mentally handicapped individual. The questionnaire contained 8 areas, in which the individual families could encounter any problem. The aim of the graduation thesis was fulfilled and the research confirmed the hypothesis that life quality of a family with slightly mentally handicapped individual with his/her intelligence quotient in the range of 50-60 points, differs from life quality of a family without any mentally handicapped individual. Some questions of the questionnaire provably demonstrated lower quality of life in families living with a slightly mentally handicapped individual.
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