Hygiene and Epidemiology
| Type of study | Bachelor |
|---|---|
| Language of instruction | English |
| Code | 450-2091/02 |
| Abbreviation | HaE |
| Course title | Hygiene and Epidemiology |
| Credits | 2 |
| Coordinating department | Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering |
| Course coordinator | doc. MUDr. Rastislav Maďar, PhD., MBA, FRCPS |
Subject syllabus
Lectures
1. Hygiene and epidemiology as prevention fields. Definitions, content, tasks.
2. Supervision and supervision, preventive and routine hygienic surveillance. Principles of primary and secondary prevention.
3. Determinants of health, their occurrence in the living and working environment, methods of study of health condition.
4. Basics of environmental hygiene.
5. Indoor building environments.
6. Hygiene of work and occupational medicine. Definition and content, risk factors of the working environment. Assessment methods
7. Occupational risk. Medical care.
8. Biological effects of selected work environment risk factors.
9. Fundamentals of nutrition hygiene.
10. Hygiene of children and adolescents General hygiene requirements for equipment for children and adolescents.
11. General epidemiology, basics of methodology and biomedical statistics
12. Special epidemiology
13. Preventive vaccination programs in the Czech Republic
14. Prevention of nosocomial and professional infections
1. Hygiene and epidemiology as prevention fields. Definitions, content, tasks.
2. Supervision and supervision, preventive and routine hygienic surveillance. Principles of primary and secondary prevention.
3. Determinants of health, their occurrence in the living and working environment, methods of study of health condition.
4. Basics of environmental hygiene.
5. Indoor building environments.
6. Hygiene of work and occupational medicine. Definition and content, risk factors of the working environment. Assessment methods
7. Occupational risk. Medical care.
8. Biological effects of selected work environment risk factors.
9. Fundamentals of nutrition hygiene.
10. Hygiene of children and adolescents General hygiene requirements for equipment for children and adolescents.
11. General epidemiology, basics of methodology and biomedical statistics
12. Special epidemiology
13. Preventive vaccination programs in the Czech Republic
14. Prevention of nosocomial and professional infections
E-learning
Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en
Literature
Advised literature
Journal of hygiene, epidemiology, microbiology and immunology. Prague : SZDN, ISSN 0022-1732 .
MIKHEEV, M. I. a M. KARVONEN. Epidemiology of occupational health. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, 1986. WHO Regional Publications. European series. ISBN 92-890-1111-4 .
Göpfertová, Dana a Zdeněk Šmerhovský. Practicing Epidemiology. Karolinum, Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-8024615424 .
MIKHEEV, M. I. a M. KARVONEN. Epidemiology of occupational health. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, 1986. WHO Regional Publications. European series. ISBN 92-890-1111-4 .
Göpfertová, Dana a Zdeněk Šmerhovský. Practicing Epidemiology. Karolinum, Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-8024615424 .