Preventive medicine is a medical field that deals with the protection and promotion of health. Health promotion includes the study of lifestyle factors (nutrition, physical activity, harmful habits, and excessive levels of psychological stress) that can induce the emergence and development of diseases (especially cardiovascular, metabolic and cancer). The course content 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 (structure and volume 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).
Entry requirements
Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)
Prerequisite: Completed 3rd year
Aim of the course
Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)
1. The student will gain detailed information of the concepts of health promotion in the field of primary and secondary prevention
2. The student will gain detailed information about the structure of health promotion systems
3. The student will gain detailed information about recommending healthy lifestyle principles
Requirements to the exam
Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)
Credit:
Rules of the credit obtaining
- active participation in lectures and practical classes
- we tolerate absence in 2 lessons without compensation of teaching. Absence in 3 - 4 lessons must be compensated by examination from all missed topics. 5 or more absences are not tolerated (requirement to repeat a year or individual study plan)
Syllabus
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Lectures
Lecturers
Prof. Zdenek Fiala, M.Sc., Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Jindra Smejkalova, M.D., Ph.D. Lenka Kotingova, M.D., Ph.D.
Negative risk factors of contemporary life style: Iinfluence on health state of population. Occupational stress: Workplace stressors, health effect, methods of assessment, possibilities of prevention). (Smejkalova 3)
Addictions II: Alcohol and selected drugs(Fiala 3)
Occupational health: Physiology of work - job performance, regime of work and rest. Biorhythms, shiftwork. Ergonomics and its use in dentistry. (Kotingova 3)
Nutrition I: Basic components of food, their importance in the diet, risks. Nutrition recommendation for healthy people, food pyramid. Drinks. (Kotingova 3)
Practical courses and seminars
Teachers
Prof. Zdenek Fiala, M.Sc., Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Jindra Smejkalova, M.D., Ph.D. Lenka Kotingova, M.D., Ph.D.
Nutrition II: Food contamination (biological, chemical, physical) and its prevention. Catering.
Recommended physical activity I.
Regulations of working procedures of hospital departments as the prevention of nosocomial infections.
Recommended physical activity II.
Hygiene of children and adolescents.
Literature
Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)
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-
