Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement)
Air Pollution and Potential Health Risk in Ostrava Region - a Review
Vítězslav Jiřík, Ondřej Machaczka, Hana Miturová, Ivan Tomášek, Hana Šlachtová, Jana Janoutová, Helena Velická, Vladimír Janout
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S4-S17 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4533 
Aim: The aim of this review was to collect all available data about air pollution in Ostrava, which is one of the most polluted area in central Europe and to make a concise assessment of health risks resulting from historical exposures of air pollutants since the beginning of the monitoring, i.e. since 1970 to the present time. Methods: All available information sources (the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, the Institute of Public Health in Ostrava or publications) were used. To evaluate the exposures both short-term (hourly and daily) data and long term (yearly) data during 45 years were analysed. For health risk assessment the relationship...
A Summary of Environmental Health Studies in the City of Ostrava and the Surrounding Region in the Czech Republic
Hana Tomášková, Ivan Tomášek, Pavla Polaufová, Hana Šlachtová, Jana Janoutová, Vítězslav Jiřík, Vladimír Janout
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S18-S25 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4537
Aim: This study is concerned with environmental health studies conducted in Ostrava (Czech Republic) and the surrounding region since the early nineties. Methods: Various databases, journals and reports, including internal or unpublished reports, were reviewed to assess the individual publications. A brief description of the studies and main results were collated. Results: The city of Ostrava and the surrounding region is an important industrial centre in the Czech Republic with a long-term heavy environmental and occupational disease burden. In spite of the theoretically assessed decline of health risks related to decreasing concentrations...
Environmental and Socioeconomic Health Inequalities: a Review and an Example of the Industrial Ostrava Region
Hana Šlachtová, Vítězslav Jiřík, Ivan Tomášek, Hana Tomášková
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S26-S32 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4535
Background and Aim: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) more than 2 million premature deaths and 7 million of total deaths each year can be attributed to the effects of air pollution. The contribution of air pollution to the health status of population is estimated to be about 20%. Health is largely determined by factors outside the reach of healthcare sector, including low income, unemployment, poor environment, poor education, and substandard housing. The aim of the paper was to review a current knowledge of relationships among air pollution, socioeconomic health inequalities, socio-spatial differentiation, and environmental inequity....
PM10 Air Pollution and Acute Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes in Ostrava
Hana Tomášková, Ivan Tomášek, Hana Šlachtová, Pavla Polaufová, Anna Šplíchalová, Jiří Michalík, David Feltl, Jaroslav Lux, Marie Marsová
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S33-S39 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4538
Background and Aim: The city of Ostrava and its surroundings belong to the most long-therm polluted areas in the Czech Republic and Europe. For identification of health risk, the World Health Organization recommends a theoretical estimation of increased short-term PM10 concentrations effect on hospital admissions for cardiac complaints based on a 0.6% increase per 10 µg.m-3 PM10 and 1.14% increase for respiratory causes. The goal of the present study is to verify the percentage increase of morbidity due to cardiovascular and respiratory causes, as per WHO recommendations for health risk assessment, in the...
Impact of Air Pollution to Genome of Newborns
Radim J. Šrám, Pavel Rössner Jr, Andrea Rössnerová, Miroslav Dostál, Alena Milcová, Vlasta Švecová, Jana Pulkrabová, Jana Hajšlová, Miloš Velemínský Jr
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S40-S44 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4536
The Northern Moravia Region is the most polluted region in the Czech Republic by particulate matter (PM2.5) and carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (c-PAHs) as benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) by heavy industry and local heating. This specific situation was used to study the impact of air pollution on newborns in the exposed Karviná district and control district of České Budějovice. Biological material from newborns and mothers was collected in summer and winter seasons. This project is highly detailed, analyzing the concentrations of PAHs in ambient air and diet, in human breast milk, in the urine of mothers and newborns, using biomarkers...
Transboundary Air-Pollution Transport in the Czech-Polish Border Region between the Cities of Ostrava and Katowice
Libor Černikovský, Blanka Krejčí, Zdeněk Blažek, Vladimíra Volná
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S45-S50 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4532
Objective: The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) estimated the transboundary transport of air pollution between the Czech Republic and Poland by assessing relationships between weather conditions and air pollution in the area as part of the "Air Quality Information System in the Polish-Czech border of the Silesian and Moravian-Silesian region" project (http://www.air-silesia.eu). Estimation of cross-border transport of pollutants is important for Czech-Polish negotiations and targeted measures for improving air quality. Methods: Direct measurement of PM10 and sulphur dioxide (SO2) concentrations and the...
Fine and Ultrafine Aerosol in Ostrava Ambient Air
Karel Lach, Karel Klouda, Vladimír Mička, Lucie Hellebrandová
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S51-S54 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4539
Air quality in the Moravian-Silesian Region and especially in the Ostrava agglomeration represents a very important factor influencing the environment and health of the local population. The area has been burdend for more than two centuries with rapid development of the mining industry and related metallurgical and chemical production. As a result, hundreds of tons of pollutants have progressively been released into the atmosphere. Some of them have been gradually eliminated from the environment; others, such as some heavy metals, remain locally present and burden the local landscape. Ultrafine particles (UFPs; diameter less than 100 nm) are ubiquitous...
Bioaerosols in the Suburbs of Ostrava during a One Year Period
Vítězslav Jiřík, Ondřej Machaczka, Veronika Ovesná, Hana Miturová, Eva Holendová, Jana Janoutová, Vladimír Janout
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S55-S60 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4534
Aim: The aim of this paper is to provide information about the concentrations of airborne bioaerosols (airborne bacteria, fungi and endotoxins) in outdoor suburban environments in Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian region, Czech Republic. Methods: The methods were based on systematic bioaerosol monitoring during one calendar year, subsequent analysis of the samples and statistical processing. The regression, correlation analysis and analysis of variance for one factor and pairwise comparisons were performed on bioaerosol data to determine their dependence on season, daytime, temperature, humidity and dew point. Results: The results show...
Editorial
Editorial
Vítězslav Jiřík, Vladimír Janout
Cent Eur J Public Health 2016, 24(Supplement):S3
This special issue of the CEJPH focuses on air pollution and its public health effects. Despite the fact that the body of knowledge of possible health effects of air pollutants is growing over the last two decades, mainly as a result of multiple epidemiological studies conducted all over the world, many questions still remain unanswered. As the air pollution in the Silesian part of the Czech Republic, and in the Ostrava Region in particular, is a significant environmental phenomenon in Europe, the data on pollution exposure, types, and health effects at various levels could be an important contribution to the body of evidence on this (sometimes) seemingly...