LF:BSEP031p EPI - lect. - Course Information
BSEP031p Epidemiology - lecture
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Marie Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
MUDr. Miroslava Zavřelová (lecturer)
MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Marie Sekaninová (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- MUDr. Marie Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MUDr. Marie Kolářová, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Tue 19. 9. to Tue 21. 11. Tue 16:20–18:50 KOM 257
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- BSKM021p Microbiology - lecture
- 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
- Midwife (programme LF, B-PA)
- General Nurse (programme LF, B-OS)
- Course objectives
- The students will be able on the ende of course the epidemiology of infectious diseases to understand and explain the epidemic process and factors affecting the transmission of infections.
The students can capable tu use the informations about the current events and epidemiologic situation.
The students will be able prezent the basic requirement besides epidemiologic methods also principles of general epidemiology of infectious diseases as they are being treated in the light of the evolutionary concept of the origin of infectious diseases.
The students in this field has to master the terminology and methods of the epidemiology of non-communicable disease and, but, also to grasp the komplexity, made more difficult by the fact that the diseases under study can be transmitted from one person to another.
The absolvent will be able to given over ruling about as for being cumulative incidence known infectious diseases and on the basic new knolidges in epidemiology to derive epidemiologic measures by the unusual conditions (gene mutation, the importation high contagious diseases). - Learning outcomes
- The students will be able on the ende of course the epidemiology of infectious diseases to understand and explain the epidemic process and factors affecting the transmission of infections.
The students can capable tu use the informations about the current events and epidemiologic situation. - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to epidemiology. Disease spreading process. Preventive and repressive measures in focus. 2. Epidemiology of food infections 3. Epidemiology of viral hepatitis. 4. Epidemiology of HIV / AIDS 5. Epidemiology of respiratory infections. Eradikace varioly. 6. Hygienic conditions of operation of the medical facility. 7. Health-care associated infections; etiology, transmission, prevention. 8. Principles of hand washing and disinfection in healthcare. 9. Disinfection, sterilization. Storage and handling of medical devices, 10. Active immunization. Vaccination in the Czech Republic.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- GÖPFERTOVÁ, Dana, Petr PAZDIORA and Jana DÁŇOVÁ. Epidemiologie : obecná a speciální epidemiologie infekčních nemocí. 2., přepr. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2013, 223 s. ISBN 9788024622231. info
- ROZSYPAL, Hanuš, Michal HOLUB and Monika KOSÁKOVÁ. Infekční nemoci ve standardní a intenzivní péči. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2013, 386 s. ISBN 9788024621975. info
- Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi. Edited by Kamil Provazník - Lumír Komárek. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 2001, 63 s. ISBN 8070711949. info
- Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi 4 :základy prevence infekčních onemocnění. Edited by Kamil Provazník. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 1996, 126 s. ISBN 80-7168-400-7. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, duscussion
- Assessment methods
- Final written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://is.muni.cz/do/1411/epidemiologie
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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