MZKHE0121s Hygiene and Epidemiology I - p

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Marie Kolářová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Ing. Martin Krsek, CSc., MSc (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Aleš Peřina, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Ondřej Zvěřina, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tereza Friessová (assistant)
Ing. Veronika Išová (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Alena Langaufová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (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
Fri 6. 10. 10:00–11:40 A21/112, Fri 15. 12. 8:45–10:25 A21/112, Wed 3. 1. 8:00–9:40 C15/333, Thu 4. 1. 11:00–12:40 A21/112, Fri 5. 1. 11:30–13:10 A21/112
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
Hygiene and epidemiology are the biomedical foundations of primary disease prevention.
Importance in teaching lies in the awareness and understanding of the complex connections between the effects of the environment and the working environment and the possible emergence of diseases in the individual and in the population.
Knowledge then provides a basis for responsible and qualified decisions with all economic and legal consequences.
Aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic principles of hygiene and epidemiology, determinants of health, risk factors of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students: - understand the principles of hygiene and epidemiology,
- know in detail the main health determinants,
-know the risk factors of diseases and its quantitative participation on the etiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases,
- in terms of infectious epidemiology know the basic principles of the spread of diseases and methods of implementation of anti epidemic measures,
- know epidemiological characteristics of selected groups of infections,
- know current epidemiological situation in the Czech Republic and in the world.
Syllabus
  • Fundamentals and principles of infectious epidemiology:
  • Process of spread of the disease, the source, the transmission path, termilogy.
  • Epidemiology of respiratory infections.
  • Epidemiology of intestinal infections.
  • Epidemiology of hepatitis, AIDS/HIV a STD.
  • Fundamentals and principles of non-infectious epidemiology:
  • The main determinants of health, the main causes of non-infectious diseases. Health determinants
  • Risk factors of the cardiovascular diseases, of the malignant neoplasms, of obesity and other metabolic disorders
  • Physical factors in environment and occupations (microclimate, Noise, vibration, lighting, ionising and non-ionising radiation).
  • Fundamentals of the environmental toxicology.
  • Basic health promotion programmes.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • www.who.int
  • TUČEK, Milan and Alena SLÁMOVÁ. Hygiena a epidemiologie pro bakaláře. 2., doplněné vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2018, 216 stran. ISBN 9788024639321. info
  • HELÁN, Martin and Kateřina HELÁNOVÁ. Mikrobiologie, epidemiologie a hygiena (Microbiology, Epidemiology and Hygiene). Online. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, p. nestránkováno, 38 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7381-4. URL 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
  • ŠRÁMOVÁ, Helena. Nozokomiální nákazy. 3. vyd. Praha: Maxdorf, 2013, 400 s. ISBN 9788073452865. info
    not specified
  • PODSTATOVÁ, Hana. Základy epidemiologie a hygieny. Praha: Galén, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7262-597-0.
  • www.cdc.gov
  • PODSTATOVÁ, Renata. Hygiena a epidemiologie pro ambulantní praxi. Praha: Jesenius, 2010, 141 s. ISBN 9788073452124. info
  • Mayo Clinic preventive medicine and public health board review. Edited by Prathibha Varkey. Oxford: Mayo Clinic Scientific Press, 2010, xv, 309. ISBN 9780199743018. info
Teaching methods
Seminars, selfstudy
Assessment methods
Written test - 20 questions with choice of answers, only one is correct.

answer - 1 credit, incorrect - 0 credit.

For succesfully passing the test is necessary to achieve 14 credits.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 10.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2022, autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2023, recent)
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