Supplements

Biological aspects of selected diseases in European population

Supplement vol. 31 (JHEMI vol. 67) – December 2023

Biological aspects of selected diseases allow and represent a comprehensive approach in the prevention and early diagnosis of serious diseases, e.g., diabetes, hypothyroidism, ischaemic heart disease, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Presented research activities and results of scientific works focus mainly on biological, biochemical, molecular-biological, and cytogenetic aspects of selected diseases with an emphasis on prevention and the health status of the European population. This special collection documents public health issues with emphasis on biological research approach as a potential prevention tool of diseases.

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Selected public health issues in the Slovak and Czech Republics

Supplement vol. 30 (JHEMI vol. 66) – June 2022

This Supplementum of Central European Journal of Public Health is bringing new scientific results from studies in the Slovak and Czech Republics including prevention of chronic noncommunicable diseases as well as infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance.

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Occupational health: the world of work in transition

Supplement vol. 28 (JHEMI vol. 64) – October 2020

Occupational health is defined as achieving physical, mental, and social wellness in a work setting, a goal that is difficult to achieve under conditions of global attempts to increase production quality and quantity whilst minimising overheads. Occupational health is secured by employers, employees, public authorities, and specialised services known as occupational health services. Occupational medicine is a unique medical specialisation, involving assessment of occupational environment risks defined by exposure (occupational hygiene) and the study of health consequences of exposure (occupational pathology). Occupational medicine professionals perform specific medical assessments (diagnostic, recognition, reporting, and treatment of occupational diseases) and provide occupational medical services which include medical fitness assessment to work. This special edition documents occupational health issues with emphasis on potential work-related diseases.

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Alcohol policy and use in Central Europe in an interdisciplinary perspective

Supplement vol. 27 (JHEMI vol. 63) – December 2019

Considering the ineffectiveness of the long-term alcohol policy, Central Europe is an example of a high-risk approach to alcohol consumption. The special issue of CEJPH addresses two areas reflecting the key challenges and problems of Central Europe in this field. First part consists of several articles dealing with the phenomenon of moderate drinking (low-risk drinking). Teams of leading experts (in cardiology, hepatology, addictology, etc.) were created ad hoc to compile their respective literature reviews with a focus on moderate drinking. Second part comprises original articles presenting alcohol-related research and data on alcohol use in Central Europe.

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Trends in Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases in Eastern Slovakia

Supplement vol. 26 (JHEMI vol. 62) – December 2018

This special issue of the CEJPH focuses on selected non-communicable and communicable diseases in Eastern Slovakia. The country and its economy have gone through many important reforms since the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the disintegration of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The Slovak Republic joined the EU in 2004, and in 2009 the country implemented the Euro currency. Slovakia has an advanced economy with one of the fastest growth rates in the EU and OECD, with a nominal GDP per capita of $35,094 (2018 est.). Slovakia is structured into 79 districts and eight administrative regions. There are considerable regional differences in the economy, employment and wealth between the western and eastern regions with an impact on the health status of population. Regional differences and different socioeconomic factors in Eastern Slovakia have an influence on the structure and frequency of important health determinants. Regarding non-communicable diseases indicators, our special issue is dealing with many key topics, such as the following: anthropometric impact on blood pressure in children, with important reproductive and pregnancy outcome in Roma and non-Roma mothers; cardiovascular risk in medical students; socio-demographic factors influencing compliance with a gluten-free diet among celiac children; and also with the validation of recommended questionnaires to screen the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. On the other hand, communicable diseases in Eastern Slovakia covered in this special issue include topic on tick-borne diseases – Lyme disease, tick-born encephalitis and its milk outbreak in Košice region. Also, the surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (2004–2016) in Eastern Slovakia showed an increased incidence. The special edition of the Journal also includes fungal infection analysis in the past three years and the treatment of hospital-acquired clostridia infections. Currently, the issue of health inequalities is only implicitly addressed by politicians, and falls within the broader efforts of the government to improve equity overall.

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The Development of Mortality of Non-communicable Diseases in the Slovak Republic at National and Regional Levels, Its Determinants and International Comparison

Supplement 2 vol. 25 (JHEMI vol. 61) – December 2017

This special issue is a result of the work of the scientific research team of the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Košice under the supervision of assoc. prof. Beáta Gavurová, PhD., MBA, in cooperation with the Slovak Republic health care system institutions – the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, the Institute of Health Policies and the National Health Information Centre.

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Trends in Health Behaviour in Czech School-aged Children: HBSC Study

Supplement 1 vol. 25 (JHEMI vol. 61) – July 2017

The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is now in its 34th year. It continues to grow not only as a source of reliable and valid data on the health behaviours of 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds, but also regarding its membership – 46 countries and regions across Europe and North America are now included. The HBSC study is a cohort cross-sectional questionnaire-based study focusing on health and health-related behaviours in adolescents in the context of their social environment. This age was selected because of the significant cognitive, psychological, and biological processes taking place in this period of the lifespan, as well as because of the fact that health-related behaviours adopted at this age are known to persist into adulthood. The findings from the HBSC study are used to monitor health, well-being, and health-related behaviours in school-aged children; deepen the understanding of the social determinants of health; and provide evidence-based data for policy makers and practitioners aiming to improve the lives of young people.

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Air Pollution and Health

Supplement vol. 24 (JHEMI vol. 60) – December 2016

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 local issue. Although this is one of the most polluted areas of Europe, apart from the conclusions of the Silesia Project (with the participation of the US EPA) and Caesar Project (with the participation of the WHO) from the 1990s, only a few studies addressing some aspects of air pollution appeared. To collect all available and credible data on air quality in this region and related impacts on human health and to submit them to the reader in a single issue (this issue contains three review articles) was the first reason for publishing this special issue.

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Physical Activity – the Cheapest and Natural Form of Prevention

Supplement vol. 23 (JHEMI vol. 59) – November 2015

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HepaMeta – Prevalence of Hepatitis B/C and Metabolic Syndrome in Population Living in Separated and Segregated Roma Settlements

Supplement vol. 22 (JHEMI vol. 58) – March 2014

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The "HPV in Human Pathology" International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, May 1-3, 2008 - Supplement 2008 vol.16 (JHEMI vol. 52)

The April 2008 Supplement, Vol. 16, is devoted to articles by leading specialists on diseases associated with human papillomavirus (HPV), their prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The authors presented their contributions at the conference. The collection also contains abstracts that were selected for oral presentation as well as contributions in the form of poster presentations. The aim of the conference was to provide a brief and up-to-date review on prevention of diseases associated with HPV, particularly prevention of cervical cancer and the latest findings on HPV aetiology in cases of cancer of the head and neck. The conference included a course in colposcopy held by leading specialists and two clinical blocks focused on anogenital cancers and cancers of the head and throat. One half-day was dedicated to the current position of cervical cancer screening in ten European states. The conference was sponsored by the following organisations: Ministry of Health CR, WHO Country Office CR, Anti-Cancer League, International Papillomavirus Society and the JEP Czech Medical Society, represented by the Czech Oncological Society, Czech Society for Otolaryngology and Head/Throat Surgery, Czech Microbiological and Epidemiological Society, Czech Society for Clinical Cytology and the Czech Society for Gene and Cell Therapy and Anti-Cancer Vaccines. The conference was attended by 243 delegates from a total of 33 countries and comprised 36 papers, 18 short lectures and 42 poster presentations.

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The Central and Eastern European Chapter Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the International Conference "Young vision and expert know-how in environmental epidemiology", Celadna, Czech Republic, November 26-29, 2007 - Supplement 2007 vol. 15 (JHEMI vol. 51)

The Supplement, Vol. 15, November 2007 is a collection of abstracts of the CEEC ISEE meeting and the International Conference "Young vision and expert know-how in environmental epidemiology", held in Celadna, November 2007.

The conference was co-organized by the Institute of Public Health in Ostrava and sponsored by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, WHO Country Office in the Czech Republic, Moravian-Silesian Region and Ostrava City Information Centre. In total 42 participants and keynote speakers from 9 European countries attended the conference. Participants presented their high quality presentations on different topics in the field of environmental epidemiology, e.g. air pollution, bio-monitoring, dietary exposure, health outcomes, risk assessment, noise exposure, social determinants of health, soil contamination, statistical methods. These presentations are available in the ISEE website http://isee.ehc.ro/past_celadna.php and are linked below, too. In the final session of the conference the panel discussion on young vision and expert know-how was organized.

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The 8th Interdisciplinary Czech-Slovak Toxicological Conference, Praha, Czech Republic, September 3-5, 2003 - Supplement 2004 vol. 12 (JHEMI vol. 48)

The Supplement, Vol. 12, March 2004 is a collection of presentations on the 8th Interdisciplinary Czech-Slovak Toxicological Conference, held in Praha, September 2003. The conference was co-organized by the Toxicological Section of the Czech Society for the Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology as a branch of the Czech Medical Association JEP jointly with the Analytical Toxicological Working Group of the Czech Chemical Society. The Section of Toxicology of the Slovak Medical Society cooperated in the organization and formation of the programme, the National Institute of Public Health supported both the conference and this Supplement. These toxicological conferences alternated from the year 1996 in the Czech and the Slovak Republic. About 90 professionals from various sciences and disciplines like physicians, biologists, chemists and physicists participated in the Praha Conference. Occupational medicine, industrial and military toxicology, environmental sciences, analytical, organic and physical chemistry, as well as predictive, experimental and clinical toxicology were represented. The success of the conference consisted just in the mosaic of so different professionals from both republics. The content was focused on one theme: undesired and toxic effects of chemicals and their prevention from various angles. This effort is reflected in the Supplement.

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Serological survey of the antibodies against selected infectious diseases in the Czech Republic, 2001 year - Supplement 2003 vol. 11 (JHEMI vol. 47)

The project was financed by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, the State Health Institute and the Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, reg. No. NI 7397-1/2003 and its concept was in compliance with the requirements of 16 EU member states in the projects ESEN and ESEN 2 (European Seroepidemiological Network). Information about the prevalence of antibodies against the causes of diseases, against which there is regular vaccination in the Czech Republic, was obtained from a representative sample of the population. Apart from this, the prevalence of antibodies against virus hepatitis A and C and meningococcus infections was determined. The results will serve as background material for monitoring vaccination programmes and interventions into vaccination and other anti-epidemic measures. This involves continued serological surveys, which have been performed in the Czech Republic since 1960 and the results of which are unique in the world.

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