Hygiene - PZTV112C

• Title: Hygiene
• Guaranteed by: Department of Adapted Physical Education and Sport Medicine (51-300300)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/0, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 14 [hours]
• Capacity: 16 / unknown (24)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: MUDr. Simona Majorová
• Teacher(s): MUDr. Simona Majorová
• Is co-requisite for: PFYZ215C
• In complex incompatibility with: PFYZ219C

Annotation

The course introduces students to the basics of hygiene and epidemiology. Emphasis is placed on hygiene issues in health care facilities and the prevention of nosocomial infections and the importance of immunization in prevention.

Last update: Majorová Simona, MUDr. (06.02.2023)

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with current hygiene and epidemiological issues, with a specific focus on issues in the environment of health care facilities and the prevention of nosocomial infections and the importance of immunization in prevention.

Learning Outcomes:

Student - graduate of the course

• characterizes the field of hygiene and epidemiology
• List environmental factors affecting health and explain the principles of prevention
• define addiction, describe the health risks and consequences of addiction
• defines the concept of disease; describes the process of spreading disease, characterises factors influencing the transmission of disease in a population
• defines nosocomial infection and lists the specifics of transmission in a healthcare facility
• can describe and apply in practice the basic procedures for the prevention of nosocomial infections
• describe the principles of active and passive immunisation and the importance of vaccination
• evaluate the basic hygiene conditions necessary for the work of a physiotherapist in normal practice

Last update: Majorová Simona, MUDr. (31.08.2023)

Literature

BENCKO, V. et al., Hygiene and Epidemiology, Selected Chapters. Prague :The Karolinum Press, 2019. 2nd Revised Edition, ISBN 987-80-246-4306-9.

FARMER, R., LAWRENSON, R., Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Lecture Notes. Oxford:

Blackwell Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-4051-0674-3.

LENER, J. et al., Medical Hygiene. Prague: The Karolinum Press, 1997.

Last update: Majorová Simona, MUDr. (17.01.2022)

Syllabus

Lectures:

1. History of hygiene. Hygiene, a preventive medicine subject with the goal of improving the quality of human life

2. Environment and human health. Outdoor air pollution – the main pollutants, their sources and adverse health effects. Types of smog.

3. Indoor air pollution – the main pollutants, their sources and adverse health effects.

4. Water and health. Hygiene of nutrition. Dietary guidelines. Health hazards - food safety.

5. General epidemiology. Communicable diseases –types of infection, process of spread of infection, transmission.

6. Principles of prevention. Vaccination. Active and passive immunization. Hospital-acquired infections

7. Travel medicine - selected chapters.

Last update: Majorová Simona, MUDr. (25.03.2022)