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ERASMUS - Hygiene, Epidemiology and a Preventive Medicine I. - CERA1P0006
Title: ERASMUS - Hygiena, epidemiologie a preventivní lékařství I.
Guaranteed by: Katedra preventivního lékařství (12-KPL)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:8/8, C(+Ex) [HS]
summer s.:0/8, C(+Ex) [HS]
Extent per academic year: 24 [hours]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Pavel Dlouhý, Ph.D.
MUDr. Jana Dáňová, Ph.D.
prof. MUDr. Milena Černá, DrSc.
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Annotation -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (21.09.2016)
This subject is taught in first year of the study. Introduction is focused to important topic of hospital hygiene mainly to prevention of hospital infections, methods of desinfections and basic methods of ecology.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (21.09.2016)

Students will be familiarized with subject of hygiene and epidemiology. Attentione is stressed to the topic of hospital hygiene, desinfection, sterilisation, prevention of hospital infections. Main target is to achieve theoretical and practical knowledge importan for practice of students in a hospital.

Literature -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (21.09.2016)

Heymann D.: Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, American Public Health Association, 2008

Bencko V. and coworkers: Hygiene and Epidemiology (selected chapters), Charles Univ. in Prague, teaching texts. The Karolinum  Press, 2011

Teaching methods -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (21.09.2016)

Lectures, seminars, practical training

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: RNDr. Sylva Rödlová, Ph.D. (22.10.2020)

This subject will be finished as a credit in summer semester. To receive this credit a student shoud pass a short test. The credit will be given by RNDr. Sylva Rödlová, Ph.D or prof. MUDr. Milena Černá, DrSc. 

Syllabus -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (21.09.2016)

Introduction to the topic hygiene propedoutic: Definition, conception and short history of hygiene. Current legislative and organization providing for hygiene. 

Hygiene in health care system. Targets of hospital hygiene. Main risks in health care system (for patients, profesionals, visitors).

Physical, chemical and biological factors in health care. Important factors affected health.  Requirements for watter suplpy and disposal of sewage. Heating facilities, microclimate conditions, noise, lighting etc.

Desinfection and sterilization. Improvement of knowledge of types and forms of desinfection and sterilization in health care. Main types of its methods and techniques. Legislative regulations.

Hospital infections: Definition of the term "hospital infections", importace of specific, nonspecific, endogenous and exogenous hospital infections, seriousness of  different types of these infections, possibilities of prevention, trends of distributions and methods of control.

Environmental hygiene. Basic knowledge of ecology. Abiotic and biotic factors. Development of ecosystem and their stability. Global problems of air pollution. Greenhouse gases. Types of smog and influence to human helath. Water main sources of polution. Food chaine of chemical components. Alergogenic plants. Diseases transmited by vectors. Ecotoxicology.

 
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