MZKOP0222p Health promotion and protection- lI

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Fialová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Chuchmová (lecturer)
doc. MVDr. Renata Karpíšková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Michal Koščík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Bohdana Rezková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tereza Friessová (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Alena Langaufová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (assistant)
prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Michal Koščík, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MZKOP0121s Health promotion and protect.
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
Course objectives

The aim of the subject is in particular:
- understanding the complexity of relationships between the environment, the individual and the population,
- awareness of the influence of environmental factors (physical, biological, chemical, psychosocial), civilization changes and lifestyle on the health of the individual and the population,
- awareness of the importance of the physician's position in the protection and support of health,
- understanding the basic principles of the emergence and spread of infectious diseases and their prevention.
Learning outcomes

AT THE END OF COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE:
- to explain the relationship between human and environment, its physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial factors and their interactions.
- to explain the role of adaptation and its active support for the positive development and promotion of both individual and public health;

- to make deduction about possibilities for preventive provisions in the field of clean and safe environmental, occupational and home surrounding, the quality of air, water, food.
- to understand and explain the different types of prevention, their tasks and aims and methods of realization.

-to interpret the positive and negative influences of lifestyle factors on human/public health, including the autoagressive behaviours (nutrition, physical activity, psychical overload and stress, smoking, abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs);
- to make deductions about the importance of environment and lifestyle in the health protection and promotion, and about the primary prevention priorities;

- to formulate basic preventative and repressive measures to prevent transmission of infections.
Syllabus
  • I. Types of prevention
  • II. Environmental chemical factors and toxicology
  • III. The environment in the Czech Republic (a)
  • IV. The environment in the Czech Republic (b)
  • V. Health risk assessment
  • VI. Epidemiological determinants of the infectious disease
  • VII. Surveillance, the pandemic preparedness plans
Literature
    required literature
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, Dana. Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a veřejné zdravotnictví. 1. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 254 stran. ISBN 9788024625102. info
  • KOLLÁROVÁ, Helena. Vybrané kapitoly z epidemiologie. 1. vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2011, 206, [5]. ISBN 9788024427157. info
    recommended literature
  • Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health & preventive medicine. Edited by Robert B. Wallace - Neal Kohatsu - John M. Last - Ross C. Brownson - A. Fifteenth edition. New York: McGraw Hill Medical, 2008, xxvii, 136. ISBN 9780071441988. info
  • GÖPFERTOVÁ, Dana, Petr PAZDIORA and Jana DÁŇOVÁ. Epidemiologie : obecná a speciální epidemiologie infekčních nemocí. 2., přepr. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2013, 223 s. ISBN 9788024622231. info
Teaching methods
Lecttures
Reading and studying ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE.
Assessment methods
FINAL WRITTEN EXAM - TEST INFORMATION:
1. Each student must register in the Information System (IS) in one of the offered exam terms. The test has fixed examination terms / dates - (Only during the examination period, except the examination pre-term
2. Students registered to a exam term will fail the term if: a-) arrive late to the test. No late arrival will be allowed after the start of the test.
b-) they are not present and previously do not cancel the term in the stipulated periods (see IS).
4. In case of failure, EACH STUDENT CAN RETAKE THE EXAM TWO MORE TIMES, only in given terms (according to Masaryk University study and examination regulations).
5. In case of failure during the third term (second resit), the student must repeat the course in the following academic year.
6. All test questions are based on ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE, seminars and lectures.
The test is a written examination → 20 multiple choice question test, with only one correct answer.
Criteria of assessment:
Correct answer = 1 credit.
Incorrect answer= 0 credit.
A: 18 - 20 credits, B: 15 - 17 credits, C: 12 - 14 credits, D: 9 - 11 credits, E: 6 - 8 credits.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2023, spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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