Syllabus
Lectures
Lecturers
Prof. Zdenek Fiala, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. Jindra Smejkalova, M.D., Ph.D.
Lenka Kotingova, M.D., Ph.D.
Nutrition I. Basic components of food, their importance in the diet, risks. Nutrition recommendation for healthy people, food pyramid. Drinks. (Kotingova 3)
Addictive behavior. (Fiala 3)
Smoking: epidemiology, health effects, intervention Method "4 A", motivation Method "4 R". Possibilities of prevention - nicotine replacement therapy, non-nicotine therapy. (Smejkalova 3)
Occupational health. Physiology of work - job performance, regime of work and rest. Biorhythms, shiftwork. Ergonomics and its use in dentistry. (Kotingova 3)
Negative risk factors of contemporary life style - influence on health state of population. Occupational stress (workplace stressors, health effect, methods of assessment, possibilities of prevention). (Smejkalova 3)
Practical courses and seminars
Teachers
Prof. Zdenek Fiala, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. Jindra Smejkalova, M.D., Ph.D.
Lenka Kotingova, M.D., Ph.D.
SEMINAR - Regulations of working procedures of hospital departments.
SEMINAR- Nutrition II. Food contamination (biological, chemical, physical) and its prevention. Catering.
SEMINAR - Hygiene of children and adolescents.
Recommended physical activity I.
Recommended physical activity II.
Annotation
Hygiene and Preventive Medicine is preventive health science that deals with the protection and promotion of health. Within this elective subject the ways of most common risk factors of contemporary lifestyle prevention (poor diet, smoking and other addictions, low physical activity, stress) are accentuated.
Current WHO recommendations are mentioned.