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Hygiene and Epidemiology

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Course Unit Code450-2091/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated2 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
MAD05doc. MUDr. Rastislav Maďar, PhD., MBA, FRCPS
KOV0246Mgr. Martina Kovalová, Ph.D.
SKE0015Mgr. Michaela Škerková, Ph.D.
HOZ0026RNDr. Aleš Hozák
MAC0622Mgr. Petra Macounová
SKY0049Mgr. Dagmar Skýbová
TOM0472doc. Ing. Hana Tomášková, Ph.D.
Summary
The subject is conceived as a thematic unit, providing basic knowledge of hygiene and epidemiology as scientific disciplines aimed at protecting and promoting health. It defines the health risks of the environment and the working environment and the possibilities of protection against negative effects, it deals with prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases and their possible complications.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
It defines the health risks of the environment and the working environment and possibilities of protection from negative effects, it deals with prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases and their possible complications.
Course Contents
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
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. World Cancer Research Fund, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-9722522-2-5.
BENCKO, Vladimír. Hygiene & epidemiology: selected chapters. Prague: Karolinum, 2004. Charles University in Prague teaching texts. ISBN 80-246-0793-X.
Bencko, V. a kolektiv: Hygiena, Učební texty k seminářům a praktickým cvičením. Praha 2000, 204 s., ISBN 80-7184-551-5
Podstatová H.: Mikrobiologie, epidemiologie, hygiena. Olomouc: Epava, 2001, 285 s. ISBN 80-86297-07-1
Tuček, M., Cikrt, M., Pelclová, D.: Pracovní lékařství pro praxi. Příručky s doporučenými standardy. Grada, 2005, 344 s., ISBN 80-247-0927-9
Podstatová H.: Hygiena provozu zdravotnických zařízení a nová legislativa. Olomouc: Epava, 2002, 267 s. ISBN: 80-86297-10-1
JANOUT, Vladimír. Základy epidemiologie. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1995. ISBN 80-7067-442-3.
Bencko, V. a kol. Hygiena a epidemiologie. Praha: Karolinum, 2006. ISBN 8024611295.
Tuček M., Slámová A. Hygiena a epidemiologie pro bakaláře. Praha. Karolinum.2016
Prevence v praxi. Praha. 3.lékařská fakulta, 2009. http://cindi.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PREV-v-praxi.pdf
Tuček M. a kol.Hygiena a epidemiologie. Praha.Karolinum,2018. ISBN 978-80-246-3933-8
Recommended Reading:
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.
Jirák, Z. Pracovní lékařství.3. díl. Hygiena práce v základních výrobních odvětvích. 1. vyd. Praha: CIVOP [Centrum informací a vzdělávání ochrany], 1998. 144 s. ISBN 80-900151-2-3.
Ticháček, B.: Základy epidemiologie. Praha: Galén, 1997. ISBN 80-85824-53-1.
JANOUT, Vladimír. Klinická epidemiologie - nedílná součást klinických rozhodovacích procesů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 1998. 145 s. ISBN 8071693537.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations
Assesment methods and criteria
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CreditCredit85 51