UOSP015 Infectious Diseases 1

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
MUDr. Hana Ševčíková (lecturer)
MUDr. Hana Ševčíková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. MUDr. Rastislav Maďar, Ph.D., MBA, FRCPS.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
UOSP002 Public Health
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course is conceived as theory. It arises from goals of the National Health Programme. It provides pivotal information on hygiene and epidemiology related to public health protection and support, on prevention of occurrence, spreading and restricting of infectious disease occurrence, on mass occurring diseases, on occupational illnesses and other important health impairments. It acquaints students with general epidemiology and epidemiological work methods, prevention of nosocominal (hospital) infections, issues of drug addiction, its hazards, prevention and treatment and following care during addiction.
Syllabus
  • 1. Position of hygiene in the system of individual and community health sciences.
    2. Fields of hygiene, organizational scheme of hygiene services and hygiene care.
    3. Hygiene of the environment, knowledge of dangerous factors and their estimation. Environmental protection, incl. legislation.
    4. Occupational medicine. Definitions and contents, dangerous factors of the work environments, their assessment and biological impacts. Fundamentals of primary and secondary prevention.
    5. Hygiene of children and adolescents. General hygienic requirements in facilities for children and adolescents. Health dangers for children and adolescents, possibilities of prevention.
    6. Nutrition hygiene. Balanced diet principles. Nutrition of specific groups of people.
    7. Basic principles of the epidemiological work method.
    8. Basic principles of general and special epidemiology of infectious diseases. Infection transmission routes.
    9. Characteristics and division of infections according to pathogenic agents. Hospital infections.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, H. Přenosné choroby - obecná část. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
  • MAĎAR, R. et al. Prevence nozokomiálních nákaz v klinické praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006. ISBN 80-247-1673-9. info
  • GÖPFERTOVÁ, D.,PAZDIORA, P.,DÁŇOVÁ, J. Epidemiologie infekčních nemocí. Praha:Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2005. ISBN 80-2460-452-3. info
  • TUČEK,M.,CIKRT,M.,PELCLOVÁ,D. Pracovní lékařství pro praxi. Praha:Grada Publishing, 2005. ISBN 80-247-0927-9. info
  • LOBOVSKÁ, A. Infekční nemoci. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2002. ISBN 80-2460-116-8. info
    not specified
  • ŠEJDA, J., ŠMERHOVSKÝ, Z.,GÖPFERTOVÁ, D. Výkladový slovník epidemiologické terminologie. Praha:Grada, 2005. ISBN 80-2471-068-4. info
  • TICHÁČEK,B. Základy epidemiologie. Praha: Galén, 1997. ISBN 80-8582-453-1. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 1 HOD/TYD, Cvičení 5 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
Passing of a credit test, cut-off score: 80 %.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2017, recent)
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