Public Health II - lectures

1.3. Types of Prevention. Health Risk Assessment.

Opening speach

ANNOTATION

Lost health can be restored medically.

But:

•Creation of health, health protection and health promotion in some ways exceeds the capacity of clinical medicine.

•The basis for the protection and promotion of health is a health risk assessment process built on a scientific basis.

•Principles of health risk assessment are very useful not only in public health, but also in clinical practice.

AIMS OF THE LECTURE

After studying the lecture you will be able to

PART 1 - Types of prevention

PART 2 - Health risk assessment (HRA)

understand the basic terms used in health risk assessment and prevention
describe the basic concepts and principles of health risk assessment
explain how different types of data from in vivo/animal, epidemiological and in vitro studies as well as exposure data are used in risk assessment
assess the relevance and reliability of data used in risk assessment

SYLLABUS

PART 1

PART 2

Hazard vs. risk
Probability
Pitfalls in HRA
Prioritization of health risks
4 steps of the HRA process
Types of hazards
Dose-effect relationship
Exposure assessment (direct and indirect methods: standard intake coefficients for air, food, water and other main matricies)
Risk characterization
Epidemiology in HRA (by A. B. Hill, epidemiologist)