Syllabus
Lectures (1 hour each) 1. Risk factors of work environment, health consequences. 2. Evaluation of health ability for a work, preventive medical care, scheme of medical examination, first aid in professional diseases. 3. Occupational diseases evaluation in CZ and EC countries.
Seminars /Practical classes: (2 hours each)
Chemical agents at the workplace. Professional acute and chronic intoxications, biological exposition tests. Today's problems in employees.
Physical factors in occupational environment, most important cause of occupational diseases.. Diseases caused by noise, vibrations, ionizing radiation.
Physical factors in occupational environment, overload. Diseases caused by overload of small muscle groups of the arm.
Lung and airways diseases connected to occupation. Pneumoconioses. Tumors.
Allergic diseases. Asthma bronchiale, allergic rhinitis, eczema.
Professional infectious and parasitic diseases.
Most often occupational diseases in various branches of industry - machinery, miners, agriculture, car drivers, health care workers. Work related diseases.
Colloquium.
Annotation
The course provides basic knowledge in the field of occupational medicine, which should know each doctor, regardless of specialization. It presents an overview of the most common diseases that may arise from exposure to harmful factors in adverse working environment.
The aim is to teach the students to assess the health ability of persons to work and inform them about the procedures in the diagnostics, assessment, treatment and subsequent medical care of the patients with a professional disease.