LF:VLPL9X1 Prevent. Med. - Course Information

VLPL9X1 Preventive Medicine - lecture

Extent and Intensity

0/5/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jindřich Fiala, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. MUDr. Drahoslava Hrubá, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Petr Kachlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Anna Klimová (lecturer)
RNDr. Danuše Lefnerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MVDr. Halina Matějová (lecturer)
Mgr. Aleš Peřina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Jan Šimůnek, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jiří Totušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Zdeňka Jochová (assistant)
prof. MUDr. Jaroslav Kotulán, CSc. (assistant), prof. MUDr. Bc. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc. (deputy)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Drahoslava Hrubá, CSc.
Department of Preventive Medicine – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Zdeňka Jochová
Supplier department: Department of Preventive Medicine – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Timetable

Tue 25. 2. to Wed 26. 2. each working day 13:00–15:40 I.CHK N01001; and Mon 24. 2. 13:00–15:40 B22/116 aula, Thu 27. 2. 13:50–16:30 KOM 200, Fri 28. 2. 13:00–15:40 B11/334

Prerequisites

VSIP0622c Introduction to internal II-pr && VLCP0622c Introduc. to surgery II -pr. && VLLM0522p Medical Microbiology II - lect && VLIM051p Immunology - lecture && VLDM7X1c Diagn. imamaging -practice && VSEI7X1 Epidemiology of Infect. Diseas
Pre-requisites, according to the order of the study

Course Enrolment Limitations

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

The capacity limit for the course is 240 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/240, only registered: 0/240

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
• General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL)

Course objectives

At the end of course, student will understand the relationship between human and environment, its physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial factors and their interactions. Student will be able to understand the role of adaptation and its active support for the positive development and promotion of both individual and public health;
Student will be able 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. Student will be able to understand and explain the different types of prevention, their tasks and aims and methods of realization.;
The student will be able to interpret the positive and negative influences of lifestyle factors on human/public health, including the autoagressive behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, psychical overload and stress, smoking, abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs);
Based on acquired knowledge, the student will be able to make deductions about the importance of environment and lifestyle in the health protection and promotion, and about the primary prevention priorities;
Student will be able to work with obtained informations and make decisions about concreete preventable posibilities for some more important non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular, oncological, metabolical, immunite, respiratory.

Syllabus

• MAN AND ENVIRONMENT: Physical, biological, chemical and social factors in macro- and microenvironment. Their interactions. Ways of adaptation and compensation for keeping the homeostasis. "health" and "disease", their determinants.
• PREVENTION: primary and secundary prevention, tasks and aims. The most important world and Czech primery prevention programmes. NOISE: sources, impact on health, possibilities for control.
• LIGHT AND ILLUMINATION: physiologiy of seeing, optimal working conditions. The physiologic sense of colours.
• RADIATION: different types, their sources and impact on human health. Possibilities of control.
• COMPLEX OF MICROCLIMATE: external and internal conditions. Ways of termotegulation. Work places wit extreme microclimate, rules for drinking schedule. Long-term and short-term thermal load.
• BIOLOGICAL RHYTMS: circadian and other types, their influence on the performances. Shift work as a risk for health. Active and passive rest. Hygiene of sleeping.
• AIR AND HEALTH: the most common contaminants of ambient air, their sources and human exposure. Smog. Health consequences of the exposure to poluted air.
• BASIC TOXICOLOGY: ways of exposure, intake, uptake; metabolism of xenobiotics, genetic polymorphism in the microsomal enzymes; excretion. Health insure caused by chemical exposure, carcinogenesis. Similarities and differences between children and adults in toxicology.
• HOUSING AND HEALTH: the most common risk factors at homes, health consequences of exposure (housing-related diseases, sick building syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity). Ventilation, types and sense.
• WATER AND HEALTH: the hygienic limits for drinking water, indicators of sewage contaminants. Trace elements in drinking water. Diseases related to water polution. The principles for safety source of water.
• NUTRITION AND HEALTH: diseases related to malnutrition and food contaminants. The role of nutrition in health promotion. Dietary quidelines. The ways for measurement of nutritional habits.
• WASTE AND HEALTH: the types of waste products, their sources. Hygienic rules for safe destruction of waste products.
• NATURAL AND MAN-MADE CHEMICALS IN ENVIRONMENT: their types, point and areal sources. Enviroment in the Czech Republic. Principles of the monitoring of environmental polutants. "Natural pesticides".
• SMOKING AND HEALTH: Smoking as the most important single preventable risk factor of premature morbidity and mortality. Dependence on smoking as a psychiatric disease. Involuntary smoking and health consequences of exposure.
• WORKING AND HEALTH: risk occupational factors and related diseases. The rules for safety of occupational environment and health protection of workers.
• STRESS AND HEALTH: physiologic response on stress situations. Stress- related diseases. Rules for the prevention of stress.
• NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: epidemiology, ethiology, prevention; Cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, Respiratory diseases, Allergy, Diabetes mellitus, Osteoporosis.

Literature

required literature
• https://is.muni.cz/el/1411/podzim2012/VLPL9X1a/index.qwarp
• Provazník K. aj.: Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi. 3. LF UK Praha, SZÚ Praha, 2003, 2004
• Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi :souborné vydání. Edited by Kamil Provazník. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 1998. 622 s. ISBN 80-7071-080-2
• TUČEK, Milan. Hygiena a epidemiologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2012. 358 s. ISBN 9788024620251.

recommended literature
• Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi 7 :doporučené preventivní postupy v primární péči. Edited by Kamil Provazník - Lumír Komárek. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 1999. 55 s. ISBN 80-7071-135-3.
• Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi 8 :základy hodnocení zdravotních rizik. Edited by Kamil Provazník. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 2000. 158 s. ISBN 80-7071-161-2
• Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi 9 :hodnocení zdravotního stavu, přístupy klinické epidemiologie. Edited by Kamil Provazník - Lumír Komárek. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní zdravotní ústav, 2001. 63 s. ISBN 80-7071-194-9.
• Pracovní lékařství pro praxi :příručka s doporučenými standardy. Edited by Milan Tuček - Miroslav Cikrt - Daniela Pelclová. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005. 327 s. ISBN 80-247.
• Referenční hodnoty pro příjem živin. V ČR 1. vyd. Praha: Společnost pro výživu, 2011. 192 s. ;. ISBN 9788025469873.
• KOTULÁN, Jaroslav. Zdravotní nauky pro pedagogy. 3. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012. 258 s. ISBN 978-80-210-5763-0.
• Kotulán aj: Preventivní lékařství I, II. Lékařská fakulta MU, 1991, 1992
• Burinch E. et al: Occupational Hygiene of Chemical and Biological Agents. Eslevier. New York, 1995
• Lu FC: Basic Toxicology. Taylor, Francis, Washington, DC, 1996
• Krause's food & nutrition therapy. Edited by L. Kathleen Mahan - Sylvia Escott-Stump. 12th ed. St. Louis, Mo.: Saunders/Elsevier. xxiv, 1352. ISBN 9781416034018. 2008. info

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• REQUIRED LITERATURE FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
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• 1. Lener J et al: Medical hygiene. Prague - Czech Republic: Vydavatesltví Karolinum; 1997. pp 1-128.
• 2. Varkey P: Mayo clinic preventive medicine and public health board review. Edited by Prathibha Varkey. New York - United States: Mayo Clinic Scientific Press - Oxford University Press; 2010. pp 111-232.
• 3. Brázdová Z, Fiala J: Dietary guidelines in the Czech Republic. Brno: Acta Facultatis Medicae Universitas Masarykianae; 1998.
• 4. Bonita R, Beaglehole R, Kjellström: Basic epidemiology. 2nd edition. Geneva - Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2006. pp 165-177.
• 5. Farmer R, Lawrenson R, Miller D: Epidemiology and public health medicine. 5th edition. Oxford - U.K.: Blackwell Publishing; 2004. pp 96-102, 127-139.
• 6. Stone DB, Armstrong WR, Macrina DM, Pankau JW: Introduction to epidemiology. Dubuque, IA - USA: Brown & Benchmark Publishers; 1996. pp 49-63, 163-190.
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• RECOMMENDED LITERATURE FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
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• 1. Wallace/Maxcy-Rosenau-Last: Public health & preventive medicine. 15th edition. Edited by Robert B Wallace. United States: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2008.
• 2. Jekel J, Katz D, Elmore J, Wild DMG: Epidemiology, biostatistics and preventive medicine. 3rd edition. United States: Saunders Elsevier; 2007.
• 3. Hrubá D: Occupational Medicine Practice. Basic Toxicology. (Fundamental abstracts from textbooks. LF MU: 1997.

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminary discussion, presentations of individual homeworks about the important actualities from the scientific publications.
Reading and studying ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE.
For those who will have to write research projects and seminar papers during third, fourth and fifth year, it is strongly recommended to enrol the following courses:
 VSIL021 - Information literacy - (3 credits) - e-learning.
 VSKP041 - A course of working with information sources and tools (4 credits).

Assessment methods

Requirements:
1 To sit for examination, it will be required to have successfully complete the pre-requisite subjects.
2. The examination is a colloquium.
Written examination → 20 multiple choice question test, with only one answer (Minimum 12 correct answers).

All colloquium questions are based on ALL REQUIRED LITERATURE, seminars and lectures.

In case of failure, the colloquium can be repeated TWICE, only during examination terms.

***Any attempts of ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT, such as cheating or assisting someone else in cheating during the examination, will result in disciplinary actions, such as:
 a-) Failing the examination term. You will be required to hand over your examination paper and asked to leave the examination room. This means, you will have used an examination term, with the respective score F / 4, on your academic records in the information system.
 b-) Opening disciplinary proceedings.
 c-) Failing the subject / course.
 d-) Expulsion from university.


During the examination, it is forbidden to use items such as:
Smart phones / Tablets.
Laptops
To wear earphones or headphones.

Talking during examination is forbidden and in such case leading to the above mentioned disciplinary actions.

***This subject is part of the Public Health State Examination***.
See complete requirements and seminar papers at - VLZP11XX Public Health - State Exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: kolokvium je nutna prerekvizita k SRZk pro studenty LF, pro ostatni studenty MU nikoliv
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
General note: pro studenty MU mimo LF nutny souhlas garanta.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30 hodin celkem.
Information on course enrolment limitations: mimo studenty LF max. 16 studentu

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