Hygiena, 2008 (vol. 53), issue 1

EDITORIAL

Reminiscences

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):3  

The Chief Public Health Officer of the Slovak Republic about the Major Concerns of the Sector Headed by Him

Ivan Rovný

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):4-5  

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The Use of Preventive Check-ups Database for Epidemiological Studies

Luděk Čížek, Lucie Máchová, Gabriela Janoutová, Jiřina Koutná, Helena Kollárová, Dagmar Horáková, Jiří Lorenc, Vladimír Janout

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):6-11  

A preventive check-up database from the Šumperk district, containing 49 426 subjects has been employed for epidemiological studies in order to illuminate the role of selected risk factors for cancers and metabolic diseases. The influence of blood group A on the incidence of stomach cancer was assessed with the conclusion, that this blood group does not increase risk of this disease. The influence of smoking on the incidence of different histological type of lung cancer has been investigated in another study. A more pronounced association was revealed between smoking and squamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma than between adenocarcinoma and...

Simple Nutrition Software for Quick Assessment and the Results of its Distribution to Members of the Public

Jindřich Fiala

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):12-18  

There is a considerable gap between the need for nutritional assessment and the frequency of its actual performence. One of the main reasons is the demandingness of available nutritional tools, because usually it is necessary to input intricately detailed dietary data, which is time-consuming. Currently accessible tools are therefore used almost exclusively by nutritional specialists and not by general practitioners or even the general public. The objective of the described project was to create a very simple computerized tool for introductory dietary assessment according to major food groups and the food pyramid. The main questionnaire form consists...

REVIEW PAPERS

Health Promotion - Development and Perspectives

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):19-22  

The article brings a brief overview of health promotion development since the creation of a modern definition of health (WHO 1948) and associated landmarks such as the Alma-Ata conference, the Ottawa Charter (1986) and further reiterates the concept as presented by WHO in 2007. The author then focuses on the development of health promotion in the Czech Republic (CR), which was largely based on Health Promotion Projects, voluntary communal activity funded by the Ministry of Health and recently the HEALTH 21 project. The author goes on to cite critical evaluation of health promotion in the CR by WHO/EURO experts and presents proposals for improving health...

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Programme of Compensation and Prevention of Static Overload of Children at School

Jana Langmajerová, Marta Bursová

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):23-25  

The project contributes to the fulfillment of component objective 11.1.4 of the Health 21 program: To improve the condition of the motor system of children by means of the school. The article describes results of entrance examination of body posture and selected functional muscle tests by sample of 40 children aged 6-7 years and by sample of 46 children aged 10-11 years from the 10th Elementary School in Pilsen. We used a combination of somatometric examination by the DTP-1 diagnostic system and somatoscopic examination of posture. On the basis of gained results we recommended appropriate compensatory exercises with optimal methodology of their performance...

Survey of Legal Enactments, Operational and Approximating Procedures, Governmental Orders of the Slovak Republic and Ordinances of the Ministry of Health, Slovak Republic, as Ordained since July 2006

Ivan Rovný

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):26-29  

4th European Conference: Smoking or Health (ECTOH)

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):30-31  

NEWS

Global-Health Bulletin 2007

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):11  

Report on the Smoking Habit in Children in the Czech Republic

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):22  

European Commission and UEFA to Support Physical Activity

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):25  

Environmental Effects on Health

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):25  

Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):29  

80th Anniversary of the Death of Professor Pavel Kučera, M.D.

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):32  

In Memory of a Colleague

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):32  

Public Health Care and Genomics - Information on the Project

Jaroslav Volf

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):33  

DETERMINE - An European Consortium on Socio-economic Determinants of Health

Hana Janatová

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):33  

Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee of the Association of Public Health and Community Medicine of the Czech Medical Association JEP of November 27, 2007, Hradec Králové

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):34  

Assembly of Representatives of the Organizational Constituents of the JEP Czech Medical Association

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):35  

Central European Journal of Public Health, No. 4, Vol. 15, 2007

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):35  

The Ministry of Health Established New Awards

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):35  

Myocardial Infarction is Moving to Advanced Age

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):35  

Exercise More to Live Longer

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):36  

Vitamin C May Hamper Adaptation to Exercise

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):36  

The EC Public Health Programme

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(1):36