Preventive Medicine I - FGP080

• Title: Preventive Medicine I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Preventive Medicine (15-220)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:10/20, C [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: prof. Ing. Zdeněk Fiala, CSc.
• Pre-requisite : {General Medicine 3rd year}
• Incompatibility : FV10065
• Interchangeability : FA0110063
• In complex pre-requisite: FG10076, FG10077, FG10078, FG10079, FG10080, FG10097

Annotation

English

Preventive medicine is a medical field that focuses on the health protection and promotion. Health protection involves studying environmental and occupational factors (biological, chemical, and physical) that can cause the onset and development of diseases (especially cardiovascular, metabolic, and cancerous diseases) and provides recommendations to reduce their risks. Health promotion includes studying lifestyle factors that can lead to the development of the aforementioned diseases. The course discusses the possibilities for primary and secondary prevention, including the principles of a healthy lifestyle.

Last update: Malířová Iva, Bc. (17.06.2025)

Czech

Preventivní lékařství je medicínský obor, který se zabývá ochranou a podporou zdraví. Ochrana zdraví zahrnuje studium faktorů životního a pracovního prostředí (biologických, chemických a fyzikálních), které mohou vyvolávat vznik a rozvoj onemocnění (zejména kardiovaskulárních, metabolických a nádorových), a poskytuje návrhy na snížení jejich rizik. Podpora zdraví zahrnuje studium faktorů životního stylu, které mohou vyvolávat vznik výše uvedených onemocnění. V kurzu jsou probírány možnosti primární a sekundární prevence včetně zásad zdravého životního stylu.

Last update: Malířová Iva, Bc. (17.06.2025)

Aim of the course

Outcomes:

1. The student will gain an understanding of the concepts of health protection and promotion with a focus on primary and secondary prevention.
2. The student will acquire basic information about the structure of health protection and promotion systems.
3. The student will develop a foundational understanding of environmental, occupational, and lifestyle intervention options.

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Literature

Annually updated study materials presented on the Moodle system, including presentations, e-learning courses, supplementary texts for lectures and seminars, and recordings of lectures and seminars. The materials are prepared by all teaching staff of the Institute of Preventive Medicine and fully cover the required knowledge.

RECOMMENDED LITERATURE

Bencko V. et al.: Hygiene and Epidemiology. selected chapters. 2nd edition. Prague, Charles University, Karolinum Press, 2019, p. 236. ISBN 978-80-246-4306-9

 

Last update: Malířová Iva, Bc. (17.06.2025)

Requirements to the exam

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RULES OF THE CREDIT OBTAINING:

• Students are required to study the seminar materials in Moodle and at least one week (7 days) before the first seminar submit one related question for each topic (1 question per seminar = 5 questions in total). Submission options: (a) fill in the questionnaire in Moodle; (b) in case of emergency, send it via e-mail to: [e-mail]. Failure to submit the questions will result in a mandatory essay assignment. Note: Study materials for the seminars are available as presentations with recordings and/or commentaries in Moodle. All seminars are in face-to-face format.
•  At the end of each seminar, students take a partial test on the given topic: 10 multiple-choice questions (one point for each correctly answered question). Students must achieve at least 70% (7 points out of 10) in each test. If the student does not achieve at least 70% in any test or misses more than one seminar, they will have to write a comprehensive credit test covering the topics of all seminars (20 multiple-choice questions), which must also be passed with at least 70%.
• One absence is tolerated at seminars. In case of two absences, the student will take a comprehensive credit test covering all seminar topics. Avoid more than two absences as it poses a risk of repeating the year. Extraordinary cases will be dealt with by the Subject Guarantor in collaboration with the Head of the Institute.

 

Last update: Malířová Iva, Bc. (17.06.2025)

Syllabus

Lectures:

Prof. Zdeněk Fiala, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Prof. Roman Prymula, M.D., Ph.D. et Ph.D.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Klaudia Zusková, Ph.D.

Drahomíra Holmannová, M.D., Ph.D. et Ph.D.

Hana Střítecká, M.Sc., PhD.

 

Health protection and Health promotion. Addictions – alcohol and selected drugs. (Fiala and Holmannová, 2 h)

Nutrition – direct risks: chemical risks in nutrition. Prevention of direct nutritional risks. Bio and GMO foods. (Střítecká, 2 h)

Mental hygiene and its importance in the occupational psychology application. Psychological hazards and stress. Evaluation of psychical load. Work and resting. Fatigue and overwork. Night duties and their health effects. (Zusková, 2 h)

Disaster medicine – disaster medicine from an anti-epidemic point of view. (Prymula, 2 h)

Epidemiology of emergent infectious diseases and vaccination options. (Prymula, 2 h)

 

Practical courses and seminars: 

Hana Střítecká, M.Sc., PhD.

Tomáš Soukup, M.D., Ph.D.

Michaela Hanzlová, M.Sc., Ph.D

Kateřina Javorská, M.D.

Pavel Borský, M.D., Ph.D.

Nutrition – indirect risks. Indirect effect of nutrition of unsuitable composition, energy, and biological value of nutrition. (Střítecká, 4 h)

Diet and biorhythms – the importance of nutrition and sleep for human body regeneration and the prevention of civilization diseases. (Soukup, 4 h)

Physical activity and health - markers of physical condition, basic types of physical activities, insufficient/excessive physical activity, basic principles of regular and suitable physical activity (type, volume, intensity, frequency). (Soukup, 4 h)

Primary and early secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Smoking prevention. Practical part: examination of CVD risk factors and nutritional status of students (blood pressure and waist circumference measurement, bioimpedance measurement on Tanita scale) and blood sampling (determination of glycaemia, cholesterol, and TAG). (Javorská and Hanzlová, 4 h)

Aging as a risk factor. Causes of aging, biological age markers and possible interventions – prolonging/healthy lifespan in patients and population in general. (Borský, 4 h)

You can find a detailed schedule in Moodle.

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Entry requirements

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Prerequisites: Completed 3rd year

Last update: Malířová Iva, Bc. (17.06.2025)