1. Digital transformation as one of the instruments for overcoming the public health crisis : the role and use of ehealth solutions during the Covid-19 pandemic in SloveniaDalibor Stanimirović, Matjaž Drev, Živa Rant, 2022, original scientific article Keywords: pandemije, COVID-19, javno zdravje, digitalizacija, Slovenija, digital transformation, COVID-19, public health, information security, eHealth
Published in DKUM: 04.09.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 6
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2. Legal dilemmas about mandatory childhood vaccination in EuropeSebastian Czechowicz, Rafał Kubiak, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: Compulsory childhood and adolescent vaccination are a controversial issue in the public arena. They also pose a challenge on the ground of legal sciences. This article is devoted to a dogmatic-legal analysis of the type of legally protected goods that are restricted in connection with mandatory vaccination (among others: the right to respect for private and family life, personal freedom, the right to self- determination) and those values that vaccination is in principle supposed to protect (public health, life, and health of children). The article analyses in detail the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, which seems to be a breakthrough. On the one hand, it ends the dispute pending before the Court and, on the other, it opens the field for further discussion on the essence of mandatory vaccinations. The research has been carried out by using the dogmatic-legal method, the method of analysis and criticism of literature, the method of analysis of case law and the statistical method. In the presented research results, reports and statistical data of international bodies concerning the level of vaccination among children and adolescents in Europe were used.
Keywords: child, countering the spread of communicable diseases, European Court of Human Rights, fundamental rights, public health
Published in DKUM: 28.08.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 3
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3. The role of correspondence analysis in medical researchBojan Žlahtič, Peter Kokol, Helena Blažun Vošner, Jernej Završnik, 2024, other scientific articles Abstract: Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate statistical and visualization technique. CA is extremely useful in analyzing either two- or multi-way contingency tables, representing some degree of correspondence between columns and rows. The CA results are visualized in easy-to-interpret “bi–plots,” where the proximity of items (values of categorical variables) represents the degree of association between presented items. In other words, items positioned near each other are more associated than those located farther away. Each bi-plot has two dimensions, named during the analysis. The naming of dimensions adds a qualitative aspect to the analysis. Correspondence analysis may support medical professionals in finding answers to many important questions related to health, wellbeing, quality of life, and similar topics in a simpler but more informal way than by using more complex statistical or machine learning approaches. In that way, it can be used for dimension reduction and data simplification, clustering, classification, feature selection, knowledge extraction, visualization of adverse effects, or pattern detection.
Keywords: public health, medical research, correspondence analysis, synthetic knowledge synthesis, exploratory data analysis, bibliometric
Published in DKUM: 30.07.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 1
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4. EU Health Union : legal aspects and digital healthJasmina Cvahte, Andreja Primec, 2024, review article Abstract: Recurrent health crises and outbreaks of infectious diseases of international concern have created a specific EU public health policy. Its role was further strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered the next stage in the integration process of the Member States: the European Health Union. The research is carried out using a literature review method (a review of literature and documents in the field of public health policy and the European Health Union) and a comparative-legal method for comparing EU legal acts on which the Health Union is based (endogenous comparison) and the legal acts of
EU and the Republic of Slovenia (exogenous comparison). The findings are examined using a qualitative content analysis method, which allows for meaningful aggregation and use of the data under study to answer the research questions. The European Health Union builds on and extends existing areas of public health and requires greater integration between Member States. One of its most essential pillars is a single information system with a single database to improve the health of individuals, resilience to cross-border health crises, patient mobility, and joint research on the most severe diseases. Member States, including Slovenia, must follow EU public health commitments. As the Slovenian legislative proposal analysis on the digitalization of healthcare shows, this challenging task will also require respect for the institute (safeguards) of other areas of law.
Keywords: European Health Union, public health, European Data Space, health information system, regulatory framewor
Published in DKUM: 28.05.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 423
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5. Validation of a Slovenian version of the healthy lifestyle and personal control questionnaire (HLPCQ) for use with patients in family medicineAdrijana Svenšek, Gregor Štiglic, Mateja Lorber, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: Background Chronic non-communicable diseases are the world’s leading cause of death and disability. The
emerging field of lifestyle medicine requires equipping healthcare professionals with instruments, knowledge, skills
and competencies. Measuring an individual’s lifestyle with a valid and reliable instrument is the first step in promoting
it. The aim of the study was to validate the Slovenian adaptation of the Healthy Lifestyle and Personal Control
Questionnaire (HLPCQ).
Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 666 questionnaire participants, and they were adult
participants (aged 18 and above) from family medicine practices with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) risk factors (e.g.,
hypertension, high cholesterol) but without a diagnosis of acute CVDs. The questionnaire included demographic
data and anthropological measures and a translated English HLPCQ questionnaire. The instrument was translated
using the forward-backwards translation method. The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the
World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. In addition to assessing the construct validity of the questionnaire,
exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to determine content and face validity, and internal
consistency reliability.
Results The mean age of male participants was 41.34 (± 13.220) years, the mean age of female participants was
40.31 (± 11.905) years. The Cronbach’s alpha was 0.852, and all questionnaire subscales had positive correlations.
Sampling adequacy was confirmed by the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) index (0.851), and Bartlett’s test of sphericity was
significant (χ² = 4647.694, p < 0.001), indicating suitability for Principal Component Analysis (PCA). PCA revealed a fivefactor solution, accounting for 50.67% of the total variance.
Conclusions The most influential factors for a healthy lifestyle were daily routine, healthy dietary choices, avoidance
of harmful dietary habits, organized physical activity, and social and mental balance. The Slovenian version had high
factor validity and reliability. It can be used in Slovenian Community Health Centre to assess an individual’s control over various lifestyle dimensions. The instrument also holds potential for use in public health initiatives, supporting
early identification of lifestyle-related risk factors and promoting preventive care strategies in the primary care setting.
Keywords: lifestyle, health behaviour, validity, public health, questionnaire, HLPCQ
Published in DKUM: 16.05.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 3
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6. Are health literacy and physical literacy independent concepts? A gender-stratified analysis in medical school students from CroatiaMarijana Geets Kesic, Mia Perić, Barbara Gilić, Marko Manojlovic, Patrik Drid, Toni Modric, Željka Znidaric, Nataša Zenić, Aleksander Pajtler, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: Health literacy (HL) and physical literacy (PL) are concepts responsible for achieving and
maintaining positive health behaviors. This study aimed to investigate gender-specific associations:
(i) between PL and HL; and (ii) among HL, PL, and body composition. We observed 253 students
attending health-area high schools from southern Croatia (181 girls; 16.9 ± 1.4 years). HL was
assessed by the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, PL by the PLAYself questionnaire,
and body composition by bioimpedance analysis. The t-test was used to assess the differences
between genders, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients were calculated to establish the associations
between variables. The results showed a similar level of HL (t-test = 0.2; p = 0.83) and PL (t-test = 0.01;
p = 0.99) in boys and girls. Significant but small correlations were identified between HL and PL only
in the girls (<10% of common variance). The body composition indices were significantly correlated
with PL only in the boys (15–20% of common variance). Our research highlights the necessity of the
independent evaluation of HL and PL in adolescence. Further studies evaluating other indices of
health status in relation to PL and HL are warranted.
Keywords: health behavior, knowledge translation, public health, community-engaged research, youth, body build
Published in DKUM: 12.03.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 10
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7. Academic general practice/family medicine in times of COVID-19 - Perspective of WONCA EuropeAdam Windak, Thomas Frese, Eva Hummers-Pradier, Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš, Sonia Tsukagoshi, Josep Vilaseca, Shlomo Vinker, Mehmet Ungan, 2020, original scientific article Abstract: COVID-19 outbreak has significantly changed all aspects of general practice in Europe. This art-icle focuses on the academic challenges for the discipline, mainly in the field of education,research, and quality assurance. The efforts of the European Region of the World Organisationof National Colleges, Academies, and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/FamilyPhysicians (WONCA Europe) to support academic sustainability of the discipline in the time ofpandemic are presented. Medical education was affected by the pandemic, threatening both itsproductivity and quality. Emerging new educational methods might be promising, but theresults of their rapid implementation remain uncertain. A relatively small number of publicationsrelated to COVID-19 and general practice is available in the medical literature. There is a short-age of original data from general practice settings. This contrasts with the crucial role of GPs infighting a pandemic. COVID-19 outbreak has opened widely new research areas, which shouldbe explored by GPs. Maintaining the quality of care and safety of all patients during the COVID-19 pandemic is the utmost priority. Many of them suffer from poor access or inadequate man-agement of their problems. Rapid implementation of telemedicine brought both threats andopportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic also challenged doctors' safety and well-being. Theseaspects will require discussion and remedy to prevent deterioration of the quality of primarycare. WONCA Europe is making a multi-faceted effort to support GPs in difficult times of thepandemic. It is ready to support future efforts to uphold the integrity of family medicine as anacademic discipline.
Keywords: infectious diseases, quality of care, public health, community medicine, health care organisation, management, medical education
Published in DKUM: 07.01.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 11
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8. Architecture of the health system as an enabler of better wellbeingTimotej Jagrič, Štefan Bojnec, Christine Elisabeth Brown, Vita Jagrič, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: ntroduction: Health systems worldwide have heterogenous capacities and financing characteristics. No clear empirical evidence is available on the possible outcomes of these characteristics for population wellbeing.
Aim: The study aims to provide empirical insight into health policy alternatives to support the development of health system architecture to improve population wellbeing.
Method and results: We developed an unsupervised neural network model to cluster countries and used the Human Development Index to derive a wellbeing model. The results show that no single health system architecture is associated with a higher level of population wellbeing. Strikingly, high levels of health expenditure and physical health capacity do not guarantee a high level of population wellbeing and different health systems correspond to a certain wellbeing level.
Conclusions: Our analysis shows that alternative options exist for some health system characteristics. These can be considered by governments developing health policy priorities.
Keywords: population wellbeing, health system capacity, public health system, health policy, neural network
Published in DKUM: 19.07.2024; Views: 186; Downloads: 11
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9. Profiling of patients with type 2 diabetes based on medication adherence dataRene Markovič, Vladimir Grubelnik, Tadej Završnik, Helena Blažun Vošner, Peter Kokol, Matjaž Perc, Marko Marhl, Matej Završnik, Jernej Završnik, 2023, original scientific article Keywords: diabetes, data analysis, public health, statistics
Published in DKUM: 09.05.2024; Views: 196; Downloads: 9
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10. Contemporary Issues in Tourism2022, proceedings Abstract: The scientific monograph on current topics of tourism development, which is intertwined with the field of health, well-being, and the role of local authorities in planning, implementing, and evaluating policies and practices related to public health issues, offers the reader a systematic theoretical review of scientific literature, as well as case studies of the topics discussed. The content is presented by numerous researchers and experts who are active in Slovenia or other countries of the former Yugoslavia. The topics address current issues in the development of tourism science. The content is multidisciplinary and interconnects various views and concepts that provide an insight into the profession for the needs of further development of the sector.
Keywords: tourism, development, thematic tourism, sport tourism, well-being, public health, the role of local authorities
Published in DKUM: 28.10.2022; Views: 818; Downloads: 81
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