<p><strong>Introduction.</strong> Digital literacy includes things like being able to use information systems and supporting infrastructure. With the increasing use of technology in healthcare, it is important for healthcare staff to be digitally literate. The aim of the paper is to determine the attitudes of primary and secondary health care workers towards the use of computers in health care and to examine the influence of sociodemographic factors on the information literacy of health care workers.&nbsp;<br /><strong>Methods.</strong> The research was conducted according to the principle of a cross-sectional study. The research included 80 respondents, healthcare workers. Data analysis included methods of descriptive and inferential statistics. The data will be presented in the form of a table.<br /><strong>Results.</strong> The results showed that certain socio-demographic factors influenced the attitude of health workers towards the use of computers. The most significant factors were the level of education and previous IT education, but the time the respondents sopent working on the computer and whether they used the computer exclusively at work or at home also had an impact.<br /><strong>Conclusion. </strong>Healthcare workers showed a positive attitude towards the use of computers in healthcare. The most significant socio-demographic factors influencing knowledge of computer work are the level of education of the respondents and whether and where they received their education in information technology.</p>

<p><strong>Introduction. </strong>The improvement of new genetic testing strategies are getting to be progressively integrated into different parts of medicine. Progress has not been accompanied by the satisfactory level of genetic education but it has been accompanied with many ethical issues concering testing among medical students, doctors and the common population. Subsequently, the requirements for an adequate education in genetics for each group are expanding. The main goal of this paper is to examine attitudes regarding different aspects of genetic testing, and to determine differences in attitudes with respect to socio-demographic characteristics among the employees at the Faculty of Medicine in Foča, University of East Sarajevo.</p> <p><strong>Methods.</strong> Sixty-one employees of four study programs of the Faculty of Medicine in Foča participated in the research. An anonymous survey was conducted based on the voluntary consent of the respondents. It included two parts. The first part of the survey included socio-demographic questions (age, gender, educational level). The second part consisted of eight questions about genetic testing, which were related to the ethical justification of genetic testing.</p> <p><strong>Results.</strong> Out of the total number of respondents, 90.2% of respondents would undergo genetic testing for health reasons. A significantly higher number of respondents who had a master&rsquo;s degree (96.2%) would undergo genetic testing, compared to (88.9%) respondents who had an undergraduate degree (p=0.001). A significantly larger number of older respondents (29.6% over the age of 36) considered abortion justified in case of prenatal diagnosis of cancer at a later age, compared to 8.8% of the respondents belonging to the younger age group (from 26 to 35) (p=0.036).</p> <p><strong>Conclusion.</strong> We have shown that there is a different understanding among the population of different educational status and different age. Further on in the near future, it is our opinion that seminars should be organized regarding this science, in order to promote its importance.</p>

Speech is a way of communication formed by rhythmic units of syllables, words and sentences, and as such is inherent in man, the only being whose organs and psyche are trained for this process. Delayed speech is defined as a phenomenon in which a child does not start speaking on time, or there are errors in the speech pattern that are not appropriate in relation to a given age. It is known that significant risk factors for the development of delayed speech in preschool children are physical, and most often social and emotional in nature. For the normal development of speech, it is necessary that the child is in a human environment, and therefore the circle of people with whom children come into contact should always be expanded. The aim of this study is to review the existing literature on studies examining the impact of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic on preschool children, as well as the speech and language development in preschool children. The recent pandemic of corona virus infection (COVID-19) has led to a state of emergency, quarantine, closure of public institutions, and preschools, kindergartens and schools in 172 countries. These epidemiological measures have led to social isolation and the need for children to learn from home, which has manifested itself in the emergence of difficulties in the development of speech and language. Research has shown that during the pandemic, children spent significantly more time watching television and computer screens than before pandemic, and less in play and physical activity.