LF:BVPL0622 Preventive Medicine II - Course Information

BVPL0622 Preventive Medicine II

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Fialová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Forejt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Chuchmová (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Martin Krsek, CSc., MSc (lecturer)
MVDr. Halina Matějová (lecturer)
Mgr. Aleš Peřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (lecturer)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (assistant)

Guaranteed by

doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MVDr. Halina Matějová
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites

BVPL0521 Preventive Medicine I
Pre-requisites, according to the order of the study, Preventive medicine I

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Nutritive therapist (programme LF, B-SZ)
• Dietitian (programme LF, B-NUT)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is the area of health promotion and disease prevention. Attention is paid to the correct identification of factors with the potential to positively influence health, especially behavioural factors. The possibilities of public health promotion are explained. The importance and effect of different lifestyle components are described. The importance of the quality of evidence and the principles of EBD in general are emphasised. Options for prevention of the most important non-communicable diseases are described and explained.

Learning outcomes

The student will explain the principles and possibilities of public health promotion.
The student will describe the effect and importance of each of the major components of a lifestyle.
The student will make recommendations regarding individual lifestyle factors.
The student will describe options for prevention of major non-communicable diseases.

Syllabus

• 1) Health - individual, public and global. Population health, ways of measuring and evaluating health
• 2) Public health promotion. Disease prevention, quality of evidence, screening
• 3) Health promotion throughout the human life cycle
• 4) Health protection and promotion in emergencies, injury prevention
• 5) Lifestyle - nutrition as a risk factor
• 6) Lifestyle - nutrition as a health promotion factor, nutritional recommendations
• 7) Lifestyle - physical activity: impact of physical activity and sedentary behaviour on health, recommendations
• 8) Smoking and health
• 9) Alcohol and health
• 10) Obesity - impact on health, causes, prevention
• 11) Microbiome and human health
• 12) Cardiovascular disease - epidemiology, causes, prevention
• 13) Cancer - epidemiology, causes, prevention
• 14) Osteoporosis

Literature

required literature
• Prezentace vyučujících – texty – v interaktivní osnově pro jednotlivá témata.
• • ÚVZ LF MU: Veřejné zdraví: Díl I – Rizikové faktory a prevence. Učební text Ústavu veřejného zdraví LF MU 2023 (dostupný online)

not specified
• TUČEK, Milan. Hygiena a epidemiologie. 2., doplněné vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2018, 358 stran. ISBN 9788024639338. info
• MÜLLEROVÁ, Dana. Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a veřejné zdravotnictví. 1. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 254 stran. ISBN 9788024625102. info

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Zkouška - test s výběrek odpovědí online v odpovědníku

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.

Teacher's information

https://is.muni.cz/www/2422/um

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