LF:MPPL0822 Preventive medicine II - Course Information
MPPL0822 Preventive medicine II
Faculty of MedicineSpring 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. MUDr. Drahoslava Hrubá, CSc. (lecturer)
Zdeňka Jochová (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. MUDr. Drahoslava Hrubá, CSc.
Department of Preventive Medicine – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MVDr. Halina Matějová - Timetable
- Wed 13:00–14:40 249
- Prerequisites
- MPPL0721 Preventive Medicine I
Pre-requisites, according to the order of the study - 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
- Optometry (programme LF, N-SZ)
- Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Optics and Optometrics)
- Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Human Alimentation)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the follow-up course of preventive medicine, the student will be able to interpret the positive and negative influences of lifestyle factors on human/public health, including the autoagressive behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, psychical overload and stress, smoking, abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs);
Based on acquired knowledge, the student will be able to make deductions about the importance of environment and lifestyle in the health protection and promotion, and about the primary prevention priorities;
Student will be able to work with obtained informations and make decisions about concreete preventable posibilities for some more important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular, oncological, metabolical, immunite, respiratory. - 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
- Provazník K. aj.: Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi. 3. LF UK Praha, SZÚ Praha, 2003, 2004
- Kotulán aj: Preventivní lékařství I, II. Lékařská fakulta MU, 1991, 1992
- Brázdová Z.: Dietary guidelines. LF MU,
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- 3 control tests, state oral examination
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
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