Course: Hygiene and Epidemiology

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Course title Hygiene and Epidemiology
Course code KAZ/NPHYQ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cichá Martina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Zemánek Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Definition of the field, basic terminology - branches of hygiene, public health surveillance, the terms health, illness, prevention, health determinants. Health promoting school projects. 2. Environment and its impact on human health - air, water, land, housing and their effects on health. 3. Food hygiene - dietary composition, nutritional guidelines, health risks from food, school meals. 4. Personal hygiene of pupils - general principles of personal hygiene, the importance of skin derivates care, requirements for clothing and footwear of pupils. 5. Occupational hygiene - working environment, professional stress, handling with load and working in shifts. Disorders related to working conditions of a teacher. 6. Hygiene in learning - the daily routine for school children, biological rhythms, school work, psychogenic stress. 7. Hygiene requirements for material equipment of a school - capacity, location, land of the school, the school building, school furniture, sanitary facilities. 8. Hygiene of school environment - heating, ventilation, lighting, noise protection. 9. Hygiene requirements for recreational activities for children and youth, trips, walks, tours. 10. Mental hygiene - psychogonical stress and prevention, psychohygiene of sleep and free time, psychohygienic types of mental freshness 11. Hygiene in healthcare facilities - hygienic principles for outpatient and inpatient services, nosocomial infections - prevention. 12. General epidemiology - infections, infectious process, epidemic process, counterepidemic measures. 13. Special epidemiology - airborne infections, alimentary infections. 14. Special epidemiology - infections transmitted by arthropods, veneral diseases. 15. Special epidemiology - infections transmitted through blood, zoonoses, infections of skin and mucous membranes.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Preparation for the Exam - 25 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 28 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 4 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
This discipline makes students familiar with hygiene as a clinical field that is focused on the care of the human health and preventive principles of this care. Moreover, students are taught special aspects of school hygiene, educational process hygiene and school environment hygiene and projects of schools that promote health. This course also includes the introduction to general and special epidemiology.
After completing the course, students should be able to: - Explain the basic terminology of disciplines Hygiene and Epidemiology, - Characterize the determinants of general health; - Identify risk factors affecting health status of students in terms of school attendance, - To distinguish between different types of infections according to their transmission, - Applying the principles of prevention of infectious diseases.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of human biology

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Written exam, Didactic Test

Active participation in seminars. Working with PC, internet connection
Recommended literature
  • GOPFERTOVÁ, D. (2002). Mikrobiologie, epidemiologie a hygiena. Praha : Triton.
  • KOTULÁN, J. kol. (2005). Zdravotní nauky pro pedagogy. Brno: MU Brno, 2005. 258 s.. Brno.
  • Kotulán, J. (2005). Zdravotní nauka pro pedagogy. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita.
  • Marádová, E. (2007). Ochrana dětí v každodenní práci školy. Praha: Vzdělávací institut ochrany dětí.
  • OURODA, S. Školní hygiena a prevence. Brno: MZLU, 2002. 108 s..
  • PODSTATOVÁ, H. (2001). Mikrobiologie, epidemiologie, hygiena .Olomouc: Epava, 2001. 283 s.. Epava.
  • PODSTATOVÁ, H. (2009). Základy epidemiologie a hygieny. Praha : Galén.
  • ZLOCH, Z. a kol. (2001). Kapitoly z hygieny. Praha: Karolinum, 2001. 163 s. ISBN 80-246-0269-5.. Praha: Karolinum.


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