LF:aVLOZ0943p Public Health III - lecture - Course Information

aVLOZ0943p Public Health III - lecture

Extent and Intensity

1.5/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Anton Drobov (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
MUDr. Marie Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Michal Koščík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Petr Smejkal (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Zelenková (lecturer)
Ing. Veronika Išová (assistant)
Mgr. Kamila Jančeková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Zlata Kapounová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Martin Krobot (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (assistant)
MUDr. Eva Pernicová, MBA (assistant)

Guaranteed by

MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites (in Czech)

aVLOZ0642p Public Health II - lecture && aVLFA0822c Pharmacology II -pr.

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

• General Medicine (programme LF, M-GM)
• General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)

Course objectives

The course is focused on a deeper acquaintance with selected topics in the field of public health, specifically in the field of preventive medicine, vaccinology and special epidemiology.

The AIM OF TEACHING is:

- the acquisition of knowledge of such lifestyle recommendations and their adjustment, which will lead to a reduction in the risk of diseases and disorders, to an improvement in health and an increase in endurance and fitness, or to a reduction in the need for medicines and an improvement in disease,

- acquaintance with methods of examination of individual risks and obtaining information about the current lifestyle of an individual,

- gaining knowledge of general recommendations based on EBD principles,

- obtaining competencies in the prevention of transmission of infectious diseases, focusing on the most common or most serious community-related and healthcare-associated infections,

- understanding the patterns affecting the occurrence of infections - economic, environmental, social or cultural influences,

- getting acquainted with the current epidemiological situation in the Czech Republic and in the world and with the possibilities of abuse of agents of infections,

- to acquire the fundamentals of vaccination, focusing on the importance of vaccination and the safety of vaccines.

Learning outcomes

Student will be able to:

- understand of the importance of lifestyle-oriented prevention counselling.
- provide individualized counselling that will reduce the risk of disease and health disorders, improve health and increase resistance and fitness, or reduce the need for medications and improve the disease.
- use nutritional counselling methods to prevent obesity,
- apply knowledge of the incidence and transmission of infectious diseases in the provision of preventive and repressive anti-epidemic measures at the community level and in healthcare facilities,
- understand the determinants of infectious diseases and enter the secrets of the epidemic and pandemic spread of infections,
- use vaccination to prevent infections in their medical practice, including knowledge of reasoning on the general public.

Syllabus

• Topics in the block:
• 1. Prevention of obesity and nutritional counselling
• 2. Lifestyle-oriented counselling in the prevention and primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
• 3. Special epidemiology I
• A. Water and food-borne infections.
• B. HIV, sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis.
• 4. Special epidemiology II
• A. Environmental changes and their impact on the spread of infections.
• B. Respiratory tract infections. Highly contagious infections and biological weapons.
• 5. Vaccination preventable infections, vaccination.

Literature

• Bonita R, Beaglehole R, Kjellström: Basic epidemiology. 2nd edition. Geneva - Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2006.
• Farmer R, Lawrenson R, Miller D: Epidemiology and public health medicine. 5th edition. Oxford - U.K.: Blackwell Publishing; 2004.

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

The course is completed by credit. The condition for granting the credit is a credit from the subject Public Health III - practice.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 22,5.

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