BHHE031p Bases of Hygiene in Dentistry - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Chuchmová (lecturer)
MUDr. Marie Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Martin Krsek, CSc., MSc (lecturer)
MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
rezkpvá (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Veronika Išová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Wed 20. 9. 15:00–17:30 B11/234, Fri 22. 9. 14:00–16:30 B11/334, Wed 27. 9. 15:00–17:30 B11/234, Wed 4. 10. 15:00–17:30 B11/234, Wed 11. 10. 15:00–17:30 B11/234
Prerequisites
Pre-requisites according to the schedule
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
Course objectives
At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand and to explain the import od the significant protective and risk factors and their attribution to the health protection and promotion on the both individual and public level, with the special concern on the oral health problems. The student will understand the main aims and priorities of primary prevention, especially in the human nutrition and physical activity, control of the autoagressive behaviors (smoking, alcohol and drug abuse) and creation the safe and ergonomic work place and environment. The student will know the markers of occupational diseases manifested clinicaly in the oral cavity. Based on the understanding of the principles of epidemic widespread of communicable diseases, the student will be able create and aplicate the right anti-epidemic control in his/her praxis.
Learning outcomes
Student after the absolutorium of the subject will be informed about the main risk factors in environment and lifestyle, about their clinical manifestations, including basic pathways. Similary, he/she will be good orientated about protective factors. Students will be able to propose effective protective and supportive controls to lowering or to elimination of risks, including those recommended by WHO. Students wull be familiar with the methods obtaining the main markers of health and their comparison between foreign data. Students will understand the principles of dissemination of infectious diseases and skilled in effective antiepidemic control
Syllabus
  • Hygiene, Preventive medicine – the scope, objectives, main principles. Health determinants, their combined influence and resulting effect. Prevention of diseases: forms, objectives, methods. Main preventable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
  • Dietary guidelines. Food pyramid. Specific nutritional factors in the oral health protection and promotion, their natural sources.
  • Occupational risks and prevention of occupational diseases: Occupational risk factors with the specific concern about the dental health. Markers of occupational exposure in the oral cavity. Mercury as an environmental and occupational risk; the contribution of dental health care to the total exposure to mercury. Specificity of dental health care during pregnancy. Occupational risks in working places of health professionals. Principles of the health protection of occupationally exposed workers.
  • Epidemiology of infectious diseases – generally: The basic knowlegde of epidemiology - understanding the epidemiological metodology (descriptive, analytic, experimental epidemiology). Chain of infection – epidemic process . The importance of environmental and social circumstances, intensity levels of the process of spreading. Global epidemiology, epidemiologic surveillance Programme of eradication and elimination of infectious diseases. Characterizing the epidemiological measurements and planing of actions for to facilitate minimalization of the diaseases spread (isolation, supervision). Desinfection, desinsection, deratization.
  • Epidemiology – parenteral infections Epidemiological characteristics of blood infections and prevention of their spreading.
Literature
  • Provazník K aj.: Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi. 3. LF UK Praha, SZÚ Praha, 2003, 2004
  • CHLÍBEK, Roman. Očkování dospělých. První vydání. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2018, 455 stran. ISBN 9788020446244. info
  • MATOUŠKOVÁ, Ivanka and Eva SEDLATÁ JURÁSKOVÁ. Hygienicko-epidemiologický režim zubní a ortodontické ordinace. 1. vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2017, 126 stran. ISBN 9788027100774. info
  • 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
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminairs. The important part is the course "practical exercises".
Assessment methods
Obligatory seminairs, control written tests about themes prezented on common seminairs, exam includes both preventive medicine and epidemiology of communicable diseases.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2023, autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2023, recent)
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