LF:aVLOZ0642c Public Health II - practice

aVLOZ0642c Public Health II - practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites

( aVLOZ0241c Public Health I - practice || aVLOZ0141c Public Health I - practice ) && aVLLM0522c Medical Microbiology II-pract. && aVLLM0522p Medical Microbiology II - lect && aVLBC0422p Biochemistry II - lecture

Prerequisites according to the MU study and examination regulations.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

General Medicine (programme LF, M-GM)
General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)

Course objectives

THE AIM OF THE SUBJECT IS IN PARTICULAR:
- understanding the complexity of relationships between the environment, the individual and the population,
- awareness of the influence of environmental factors (physical, biological, chemical, psychosocial), civilization changes and lifestyle on the health of the individual and the population,
- familiarization with the basic procedures for the prevention of health damage at individual and company level in relation to individual factors,
- understanding the basic principles of the emergence and spread of infectious diseases and their prevention in healthcare settings,
- adopting procedures to enhance the positive development of health,
- awareness of the importance of the physician's position in the protection and support of health.

Learning outcomes

AT THE END OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE:
1. to explain the relationship between human and environment, its physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial factors and their interactions.
2. to explain the role of adaptation and its active support for the positive development and promotion of both individual and public health.
3. to make a deduction about possibilities for preventive provisions in the field of clean and safe environmental, occupational and home surrounding, the quality of air, water, food.
4. to understand and explain the different types of prevention, their tasks and aims and methods of realization.
5. to interpret the positive and negative influences of lifestyle factors on human/public health, including the autoagressive behaviours (nutrition, physical activity, psychical overload and stress, smoking, abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs).
6. to make deductions about the importance of environment and lifestyle in the health protection and promotion, and about the primary prevention priorities.
7. to design and implement basic preventative and repressive measures to prevent transmission of infections.
8.to formulate decisions about concrete preventable possibilities for some more important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular, oncological, metabolically, immune, respiratory.

Syllabus

1. Biological factors of the environment
2. Physical factors of the environment
3. Nutrition I
4. Nutrition II
5. Childhood nutrition
6. Nutritional status assessment
7. Dietary consumption evaluation
8. Childhood and adolescent hygiene
9. Smoking
10. Assessment of physical activity
11. Healthcare facilities - hygiene requirements and operating conditions
12. Healthcare-associated infections
13. Anti-epidemic measures
14. Diagnosis of infectious diseases
15. Disinfection and sterilization, clean rooms in healthcare

Literature

required literature

Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine. Edited by Robert B. Wallace - Neal Kohatsu - John M. Last - Ross C. Brownson - A. Fifteenth edition. New York: McGraw Hill Medical, 2008, xxvii, 136. ISBN 9780071441988. info
NELSON, Kenrad E. and Carolyn Masters WILLIAMS. Infectious disease epidemiology : theory and practice. 2nd ed. Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007, xvi, 1207. ISBN 9780763728793. info

recommended literature

Infectious disease epidemiology. Edited by I. Abubakar - Ted Cohen - Helen R. Stagg - Laura C. Rodrigues. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 379 stran. ISBN 9780198719830. info
www.who.int (information not found in the books).
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx (information not found in the books).
GIBSON, Rosalind S. Principles of nutritional assessment. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, xx, 908. ISBN 0195171691. info
Mayhall's hospital epidemiology and infection prevention. Edited by David J. Weber - Thomas R. Talbot. Fifth edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2021, xv, 742. ISBN 9781975124588. info
www.cdc.gov (information not found in the books).

Teaching methods

1. Theoretical preparation for each lesson according to the instructions given in the interactive syllabus in IS:
- study of recommended study materials,
- processing of tasks and their storage in IS.

2. Lesson - practice:
- interpretation focused on problematic topics,
- presentation of student tasks,
- discussion.

3. ROPOT in IS:
- to verify the knowledge from the completed lesson - voluntarily

4. Study of study materials in interactive curricula and ALL COMPULSORY literature

All information about the course of teaching is given in the interactive syllabus of the subject in IS.
Essential information is also presented in the form of lectures in the subject Public Health II - lectures

Assessment methods

REQUIREMENTS TO OBTAIN THE CREDIT:

The student must meet the prerequisites for completing the course set on the basis of the scoring system of student activities in the teaching of the course.

During the semester, the student can gain and lose points.

The scoring system is given in the interactive syllabus of the subject.

The minimum points for obtaining the credit are 26 out of 29 possible.

LATE ARRIVAL POLICY:

Late arrival to class → the student came to class only 10 minutes after the start of class. In such a case, even if the student remains in the class, the student will have a registered absence.

LESSON REPLACEMENT POLICY

Compensation for a missed lesson with another seminar group is possible only in excused absences and with the consent of the subject guarantor. ATTENTION! Topics are taught in only one or two weeks.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.

Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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