LF:VLZP11XX Public Health-State Exam - Course Information

VLZP11XX Public Health - State Exam

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: SRZK (closing examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. MUDr. Jan Holčík, DrSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (lecturer)
Zdeňka Jochová (assistant)
Helena Malenová (assistant)
Jana Neckářová (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Department of Preventive Medicine – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites (in Czech)

( VLFA0822p Pharmacology II - L || VLFA0722p Pharmacology - L ) && VLNE9X1p Neurology - lecture && VLPY9X1p Psychiatry - lect. && VLVZ9X1c Health Care and Polcy && VSDV9X22p Dermatovenerology II-l && VLAM9X1p Intensive care med. - lect. && VLVL9X66c Occupational medicine && VLVL9X65c Internal medicine part 5 && VLPD1033c Pediatrics III-practice && VLIN9X22 Infectious diseases II && VLSD7X1p Forensic med.-lectures && VSEI7X1 Epidemiology of Infect. Diseas && VLOL7X1 ophthal. && VSOT7X1p ENT && VLPL9X1 Prevent. Med. && VLON091 Clinical oncology && VLST7X1p stomatolology  l. && VSLE7X1p Medical Ethics 2 - lecture && VLPG1022c Gynecol. and obst. II- pract. && VYCET(3, VSAT081 Fundament.of AntimicrobTherap , VLKA091 Clinical anatomy , VSPM071 Palliative Medicine , VLKB091 Clinical chemistry , VLKF091 Clinical Pharmacology , BMBS051 Biostatistics - basic course , VLPM071 Legal Aspects in Medicine , VLEP041 The Economics of Health Care , VLIA081 Clin.immunol. alergol. , VLKM081 Commun.in medicine , VLRL041 Medicinal plants , VLTL081 Sports Medicine , VSDL071 Diagnostics and management in orthopaedic surgery , VSAL081 Anaesth. and Tr. of Pain I , VSFP071 Neonatal Physiology and Pathol ) && VLCH9X33c Surgery III - practicals && ( VSAJ0222 English 1 II -p || VSNJ0222 German 1 II -p || VSFJ0222 French 1 II -p || VSSJ0222 Spanish 1 II -p || VSRJ0222 Russian 1 II -p ) && VSSP03X Individual project

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

Course objectives

To understand the principles of relationship between human and environment, life conditions and life style. Factors for prevention and promotion of health. Prevention: types, different significance for health prevention and promotion. The most important non-communicable diseases: epidemiology, ethiology, prevention.

Syllabus

• MAN AND ENVIRONMENT: Physical, biological, chemical and social factors in macro- and microenvironment. Their interactions. Ways of adaptation and compensation for keeping the homeostasis. "health" and "disease", their determinants.
• PREVENTION: primary and secundary prevention, tasks and aims. The most important world and Czech primery prevention programmes. NOISE: sources, impact on health, possibilities for control.
• LIGHT AND ILLUMINATION: physiologiy of seeing, optimal working conditions. The physiologic sense of colours.
• RADIATION: different types, their sources and impact on human health. Possibilities of control.
• COMPLEX OF MICROCLIMATE: external and internal conditions. Ways of termotegulation. Work places wit extreme microclimate, rules for drinking schedule. Long-term and short-term thermal load.
• BIOLOGICAL RHYTMS: circadian and other types, their influence on the performances. Shift work as a risk for health. Active and passive rest. Hygiene of sleeping.
• AIR AND HEALTH: the most common contaminants of ambient air, their sources and human exposure. Smog. Health consequences of the exposure to poluted air.
• BASIC TOXICOLOGY: ways of exposure, intake, uptake; metabolism of xenobiotics, genetic polymorphism in the microsomal enzymes; excretion. Health insure caused by chemical exposure, carcinogenesis. Similarities and differences between children and adults in toxicology.
• HOUSING AND HEALTH: the most common risk factors at homes, health consequences of exposure (housing-related diseases, sick building syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity). Ventilation, types and sense.
• WATER AND HEALTH: the hygienic limits for drinking water, indicators of sewage contaminants. Trace elements in drinking water. Diseases related to water polution. The principles for safety source of water.
• NUTRITION AND HEALTH: diseases related to malnutrition and food contaminants. The role of nutrition in health promotion. Dietary quidelines. The ways for measurement of nutritional habits.
• WASTE AND HEALTH: the types of waste products, their sources. Hygienic rules for safe destruction of waste products.
• NATURAL AND MAN-MADE CHEMICALS IN ENVIRONMENT: their types, point and areal sources. Enviroment in the Czech Republic. Principles of the monitoring of environmental polutants. "Natural pesticides".
• SMOKING AND HEALTH: Smoking as the most important single preventable risk factor of premature morbidity and mortality. Dependence on smoking as a psychiatric disease. Involuntary smoking and health consequences of exposure.
• WORKING AND HEALTH: risk occupational factors and related diseases. The rules for safety of occupational environment and health protection of workers.
• STRESS AND HEALTH: physiologic response on stress situations. Stress- related diseases. Rules for the prevention of stress.
• NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: epidemiology, ethiology, prevention; Cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, Respiratory diseases, Allergy, Diabetes mellitus, Osteoporosis.

Literature

• ŽÁČEK, A. and J. HOLČÍK. Sociální lékařství II, Úvod do veřejného zdravotnictví. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 130 pp. ISBN 80-210-0375-8. info

Assessment methods

oral exam

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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