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1. INTRODUCTION
a. The concept and basic features of law
b. Law, society and the state.
c. BASICS OF LAW (legal rule, legal act, the sources of law, legal relationship, subjects in law). Basic principles of law (rule of law, welfare state, basic freedoms and entitlements).
2. LEGAL REGULATION OF THE SLOVENIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
a. Legal sources for the organization of health care system and health care activities
b. Organization and financing of the Slovenian health care system: health care providers (public and private contractors), health insurance system in the Republic of Slovenia and comparison with foreign systems
c. Legal sources in the field of food safety
d. Legal sources in the field of physiotherapy; register of physiotherapy
3. PROTECTION OF PRIVACY, PATIENT’S RIGHTS
a. Patient’s rights
b. Protection of privacy and personal rights
c. Personal data protection
4. ENTITLEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN THE PATIENT’S HEALTH CARE
a. The concept and meaning of competence and responsibility, types of responsibility
b. Responsibility at work in an employment relationship, responsibility at work in independent practice
c. Deterioration of health, defect or complication, injuries while working with patients, invasive methods
d. Profession rules and codes of ethics

5. INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL REFLECTION
a. Methodology in ethics and its importance for individual and collective action in professional environment.
b. The role of ethical reflection for social responsibility (gender equality, intergenerational solidarity, moral rights of deprivileged demographic groups),
6. APPLIED ETHICAL PARADIGMS AND THEORIES
a. Consequentialism (utilitarianism) and its importance for the empowerment of the culture of health (individual and collective responsiblitiy, preventive ethics, moral importance of health education).
b. Rule ethics (connection with ethical codes and ethical comissions, deontology and categorical imperative)
c. Virtue ethics (applied Aristotelian virtue ethics and its importance for the promotion of healthy lifestyle, ethics of care: ‘models of interpersonal professional relationships’ and their suitability for the profession with the emphasis on healthcare worker-patient relationship).
7. MORAL MOTIVATION
a. Internalism vs. Externalism
b. Akrasia (weakness of the will) and cognitive dissonance theory)
8. SELECTED ISSUES FROM BIOETHICS AND ETHICS OF PHYSIOTHERAPY (the importance of healthy lifestyle as a value; the question of access to information and services, connected with healthy lifestyle in different demographic groups; ethics and integrity in research, the ethical importance of body and issue with the bodily contact)