Preventive medicine is a medical field that deals with the terms of health protection and health promotion. Health protection includes the study of factors of the living and working environment (biological, chemical, and physical) that can induce the emergence and development of diseases (especially cardiovascular, metabolic and cancer) and proposals for reduction of their risks. Health promotion includes the study of lifestyle factors that can induce the emergence and development of diseases (especially cardiovascular, metabolic and cancer) and proposals for reduction of their risks. The course of Preventive Medicine I consists of selected chapters primarily from the field of Health Promotion. The teaching is focused on the detailed identification and characterization of the danger of lifestyle factors, on the evaluation of the degree of their presence in the population and on the evaluation of the related health risk. The options for primary and secondary prevention are discussed, which includes media and institutional forms of recommending healthy lifestyle principles (composition and quantity of food; type, volume, intensity, and frequency of appropriate and regular physical activity; opportunities for reducing alcohol and tobacco and drug addictions and the risk and possibility of influencing excessive psychological stress). The very current issue of vaccination and the issue of population aging were also included in the subject.
Entry requirements
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Prerequisite: Completed 3rd year
Aim of the course
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OBJECTIVES OF THE SUBJECT
The student will get a general idea of the content of the Preventive Medicine course, specifically the Health Protection and Health Support programs.
Preventive Medicine I is focused on Health Promotion. The student will get more detailed information about identification and characterization of the danger of lifestyle factors, on the evaluation of the degree of their presence in the population and on the evaluation of the related health risk.
The student will get more detailed information about the options for primary and secondary prevention (media and institutional forms of recommending healthy lifestyle principles)
Requirements to the exam
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RULES OF THE CREDIT OBTAINING
- active participation in seminars
- we tolerate absence in 1 lesson without compensation of teaching; absence in 2 lessons must be compensated by examination from all missed topics; 3 or more absences are not tolerated (requirement to repeat a year or individual study plan).
Health protection and Health promotion. Addictions. Alcohol and selected drugs. (Holmannova 2)
Nutrition – Indirect risks - Chemical risks in nutrition. Prevention of indirect nutritional risks. (Kotingova 2)
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. (Smejkalova 2)
Epidemiology of emergent infectious diseases and vaccination options.(Prymula 2)
Practical coursers and seminars
Teachers
Tomas Soukup, M.D., Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. Jindra Smejkalova, M.D., Ph.D.
Lenka Kotingova, M.D., Ph.D.
Pavel Borský, M.D., Ph.D,
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).
Prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Table of coronary risk. Example of simple preventive checkup in the group of medical students (analysis of nutritional state, blood taking for examination of biochemical indicators – cholesterol, glycaemia; blood pressure, A/B type of behavior) – SKIP BREAKFAST IN THE MORNING
Nutrition – direct risks. Direct effect of nutrition of unsuitable composition, energy and biological value of nutrition.
Hygiene of children. Child development, nutrition, main risks in children, education.
Aging as a risk factor. Causes of aging, biological age markers and possible interventions (prolonging/healthy lifespan in patients and population in general).
Literature
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COMPULSORY LITERATURE
Materials prepared by the Institute of Preventive Medicine – Moodle (Power Point presentations, e-learning courses, supplementary texts for lectures and seminars, recordings of lectures and seminars)
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
