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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Public health and epidemiology - M320051
Title: Ochrana veřejného zdraví
Guaranteed by: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology (320)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:2
E-Credits: winter s.:2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/3, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Bušová Milena RNDr. CSc.
Annotation -
Students will be introduced to the field of public health and epidemiology and its role in the healthcare and the disease prevention. At the biomedical level, students will learn about all factors influencing the organism in the environment and at the workplace. The course will focus on laboratory analysis of key risk markers from different components of environment and workplace, as well as beneficial factors of disease prevention.
Last update: Pátková Vlasta (12.02.2021)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Klasifikovaný zápočet

Last update: Pátková Vlasta (15.02.2021)
Literature -

Tuček, Slámová a kol.: Hygiena a epidemiologie pro bakaláře. Karolinum 2020.

Zásady práce v chemické laboratoři – on-line: Bezpečnost práce.pdf (vscht.cz)

Last update: Pátková Vlasta (12.02.2021)
Syllabus -

Introduction – laboratory safety

Toxicology of environment, important toxicological biomarkers, methods of detection, laboratory assays of selected markers, limits and their calculation, principles.

Nutritional toxicology, important food contaminant, pesticides residues, veterinary drug residues, process contaminants, principles of their formation, effect on the organism, chronic toxicity, preventive healthcare.

Drinking water in public health, packed drinking water, microbiological and chemical parameters of drinking water. VÚV T.G.M., microbiological and chemical laboratory – analytical methods.

Drugs of abuse, smoking, drug addiction, diagnostics and markers, methods of detection, measurement of selected markers in biological material by non-invasive methods.

Workplace, risk factors of individual components of workplace, health risk, prevention, limits. Measurement instuments for individual factors of the environment, calibration, operators, measurement of selected factors – measurement reporting.

Analysis of selected biomarkers in urine of labor at risky workplace – reporting.

Evaluation of reports. Test. Credits.

Last update: Pátková Vlasta (12.02.2021)
Learning resources - Czech

Pro podporu výuky budou sepsány návody pro předmět: „Laboratorní metody v hygieně pro studenty oboru Bioanalytické laboratorní analýzy v medicíně“ - v přípravě.

Last update: Pátková Vlasta (12.02.2021)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to analyze various risk biomarkers from workplace, environment, water and food. They will be able to measure and analyze special analyses different from those done in clinical biochemistry laboratories or by automatic analyzers. They will be able to use special measurement instuments used in public health and epidemiology practice and analyze the results.

Last update: Pátková Vlasta (12.02.2021)
 
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