RV2RC_4CP Man and the Environment

Faculty of Education
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radim Slaný (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc.
Department of Health Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Michaela Daňková
Supplier department: Department of Health Education – Faculty of Education
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 is able to: -- understand and explain the basic knowledge about the most important environmental factors and their positive and/or negative influences on human health, both on the individual, and public level -- create his/her approaches to the protection and promotion of environment, -- understand the individual role within the global influence on environment and to induce the similar approaches to children and youth adults, -- use obtained knowledge also to creation of optimal conditions for school work.
Syllabus
  • 1. Physical, biological, chemical and social factors in man’s macro and micro space. Their mutual interaction. Adaptive and compensatory systems causing homeostasis. 2. Importance of acoustic percept by environmental perception. Noise, its damaging and disruptive impacts on an organism. Diseases connected with noise exposition. Principles of creation of the rules of noise exposition. Anti-noise measures. 3. Physiology of sight against creation of optimal light conditions in working environment. Physiological meaning of colours. Principles of lighting hygiene while working on PC. 4. Types of ionizing radiation and their sources. Diseases caused by radiation. Principles of preventive measures. Types of non-ionizing radiation and their sources. Impacts of chosen types of radiation on man. Principles of prevention. 5. Thermoregulatory systems and health consequences of their failure. Principles of fluid regime. Long-term and short-term bearable thermal load. Cold exposition. 6. External atmosphere and its most frequent chemical contaminators. Smog – its types. Health consequences of being exposed to chemical contaminators of external atmosphere. 7. Housing and health. Types of chemical contaminators of internal atmosphere and their sources. Health consequences of being exposed to them. Biological contamination of internal space and its impact on health of exposed persons. Ventilation and its importance. 8. Characteristics of drinking water. Obligatory and determined indicators of drinking water standards. Special requirements for baby water. Trace elements in water and their importance for health. Health consequences of unsuitable water drinking. Principles of hygiene protection of water sources. 9. Waste and health. Types and sources of waste. Dangers for man. Main rules of safety waste disposal. 10. Chemization of environment. Point and plain sources of chemical xenobiotics. Global chemization of environment. Environmental situation in CR. Experimental monitoring and evaluation of chemicals. 11. Methodology of epidemiological studies. Natural toxins and carcinogens. Information on natural (food) sources of chemical toxins and carcinogens. Mycotoxins. Chemophobia and environmental hysteria. Entry of chemicals into organism – defence mechanisms. Absorption and metabolism of chemicals. Importance of microsomal enzymes in toxicology. 12. Toxicological differences among children. Comparison of physiological differences influencing intensity of children’s and adults’ external and internal exposition. 13. Work and health. Working environment as a source of danger of professional diseases and diseases connected with work. Philosophy of the highest permissible strengths. Danger workplaces. Specifics of school environment.
Literature
  • Kotulán J. a kol: Praktické lékařství I, II. Lékařská fakulta MU, 1991, 1992
  • KOTULÁN, Jaroslav. Zdravotní nauky pro pedagogy. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 258 s. ISBN 8021021799. info
  • KOTULÁN, Jaroslav and Drahoslava HRUBÁ. Preventivní lékařství :učební text pro lékařské fakulty. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993, 207 s. ISBN 80-210-0563-7. info
  • KOTULÁN, Jaroslav, Drahoslava HRUBÁ and Vladimír BENCKO. Preventivní lékařství :učební text pro lékařské fakulty. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993, 285 s. ISBN 80-210-0336-7. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical lectures Verbal lectures and video previews. Lecture theme will be announced 1 week earlier. Every lecture will be finished by recap and discussion on new conceptions and continuity.
Assessment methods
Colloquium. Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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