The subject Public Health II brings another part of knowledge in a multidisciplinary approach to the protection and promotion of public health.
Its content completely covers the content of the field of Hygiene and partially opens up the issue of epidemiology of infectious diseases.
Hygiene is the medical science of maintaining health. It deals with environmental and lifestyle factors that affect an individual's health and creates one of the pillars of primary prevention, ie disease prevention.
In today's world characterized by growing population, advanced health care, the intensity of anthropogenic impacts on the natural environment, but also a degree of ruthlessness and indifference to growing health threats, primary prevention is becoming a tool which, due to its focus, has a high potential to prevent depletion of scarce resources on a strictly systemic or global scale. The importance of this field is absolutely crucial in the context of the present.
Equally important is hygiene in the prevention of infectious diseases. Evidence of this is the ongoing pandemic.
General epidemiology and measures to reduce the transmission of infections in healthcare are therefore essential knowledge of students participating in clinical practices. For this reason, you will encounter these basics of the epidemiology of infectious diseases in this subject. Special epidemiology will follow in the subject Public Health III.
The basic goal of teaching this subject is to understand the basics of primary prevention and its importance for your future medical practice.