MFPL0711p Preventive Medicine I

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Fialová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Martin Krsek, CSc., MSc (lecturer)
Mgr. Aleš Peřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Ondřej Zvěřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Veronika Išová (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Ing. Veronika Išová
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Wed 20. 9. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 27. 9. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 4. 10. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 11. 10. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 18. 10. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 25. 10. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 1. 11. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 8. 11. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 15. 11. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 22. 11. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 29. 11. 13:00–14:40 F01B2/1S05, Wed 6. 12. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 13. 12. 13:00–14:40 B11/234, Wed 20. 12. 13:00–14:40 B11/234
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 course student will be able to explain the relationship between human and environment and occupational conditions, characterized by physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial factors and their interactions. Student will be able to explain the role of adaptation and its active supportfor the positive development and promotion of both individual and public health.
Student will be able to define the basic mechanisms of action of the main factors from environmental and occulational surrounding and their influences on human health: noise, radiation, microclimate, light, biological rythmicity. Student will be able to make deduction about possibilities for preventive provisions in the fields of clean and safe air, water, waste destruction, occupational and home environment. Student will be able to undderstand and explain the different types of prevention, their tasks and aims and methods of realization.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able:
to identify the main environmental and lifestyle risk factors and their health impacts;
to include preventive measures to reduce or eliminate exposure to environmental and lifestyle risks;
describe the mechanism of effect of the risk factors in the etiology of significant non-communicable diseases;
enumerate in a similar way health-promoting factors and their mechanism of action.
Syllabus
  • Prevention, human and environment: types, aims and methods of prevention; epidemiological studies; physical, chemical, biological and social factors of health, their interactions; health and disease, health determinants; homeostasis, adaptation, compensations.
  • Ambient air and Health: the most common contaminants of ambient air; particulate matters; smog, its types and characteristics; health consequences of exposure.
  • Dietary guidelines: principles of development, physiological importance; preventive programs for the support of dietary guidelines.
  • Water and Health: principles for evaluation of health safety and quality of drinking water; sanitary inspection; Diseases associated with the drinking water; importance of drinking water for health.
  • Smoking and health: smoking as the most important individual preventable risk factor for many serious diseases as well as the potent addictive drug. Lung, head and neck cancers; principles of treatment of tobacco dependence.
  • Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation: types and sources of ionizing radiation and their health consequences; the main sources of non-ionizing radiation, importance for health and health effects, prevention; skin cancers: epidemiology and prevention.
  • Thermal complex: mechanisms of thermoregulation, health consequences of their failure; hot workplaces: acceptable long-term and acceptable short-term thermic load; principles of hydration.
  • Stress: main sources, reactions, prevention.
  • Sound and noise: disruptive and harmful effects of noise; Diseases associated with the exposure to noise; principles of establishing of safe limits.
  • Biological rhythmicity, influence on the work performance and rest: types, associations with the oscillation of performance; shift work as a risk factor; active and passive rest; healthy sleeping.
  • Working and health: common characteristics of occupational diseases and work-related diseases, prevention, health risks of working in health-care facilities.
  • The most important cardiovascular diseases: epidemiology, etiology, prevention.
  • Some important types of cancer: urinary cancer, pancreatic cancer, cancers of reproductive system, cancer of gastrointestinal system (stomach, bowel, colorectum), malignity of lymphatic and blood systems - epidemiology, etiology, prevention.
  • The most important preventive programs concerned on public health: Health 21, Health 2020; Local programs developed at Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Dana. Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a veřejné zdravotnictví. 1. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 254 stran. ISBN 9788024625102. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Exam in the form of a written test, consisting of 20 questions with answers. The evaluation will be as follows: 19-20 correctly - A 17-18 correctly - B 15-16 correctly - C 13-14 correctly - D 11-12 correctly – E <11 - F The questions will relate to the lectured topics according to the syllabus, so to successfully pass the test it is necessary to attend lectures, which are together with accompanying materials the main source of information.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/www/2422/um
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2023, recent)
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