Hygiena, 2008 (vol. 53), issue 4

Editorial

Vladimír Valenta

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):119  

Traffic Education and its Efficacy in Elementary School Pupils - Intervention Study in 10 Districts of the Central Bohemia Region

Stanislav Janoušek, Zuzana Zvadová, Zdeňka Trestrová, Zdeněk Roth

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):120-126  

Child accidents are among the major causes of child mortality and morbidity, namely in all industrialized countries. At present, a serious problem is the increasing number of traffic accidents which in the child population are by far the most frequent cause of post-accident mortality. Although traffic education is not presently accepted by the professional public unequivocally as an important factor significantly participating in the lowering of traffic accident incidence, discussed in the present communication is its influence on the knowledgeability profile and command of safety in road traffic in elementary school pupils, as well as in the lowering...

Risk Factors of Environment and Life Style in Women Breast Carcinoma - Questionnaire Inquiry

Jiří Rameš, Zdeněk Valenta, Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):127-134  

Researchers in this study offer experience in problems of epidemiology of malignancies and applied epidemiological questionnaires in order to gather information on risk factors of lifestyle and environment in the context with a rise in incidence of selected malignancies in the Czech population. A database of 1,081 records tracking lung, colorectal and breast carcinoma and, as a control group, patients with virtually no diagnostic presence of malignant tumour were used. Every diagnosis was confirmed by a clinician on the basis of thorough examination. Data collection was provided by a healthcare worker by standard procedure in the form of an interview....

The Role of the Family in the Development of Some of the Children's Attitudes towards Smoking and their Smoking Habits

Drahoslava Hrubá, Iva Žaloudíková

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):135-140  

The behavioural complex of "life style" is affected by the attitudes to its individual components. The family has the most important impact on the child's attitudes during early childhood. The more social subjects with similar attitudes and the similar behaviour exert influence upon the target population, the better are the effects of the intervention on the development of behaviour. These general principles are the basis for the educational programme "Non-Smoking is the Norm" created for the pupils at the first degree of primary schools and their parents.The measurement of the effect included also the differences between children living in smoking...

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):141-142  

Syndrome of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities has been known since the middle of 80th of the last century. Although health professionals expressed their scepticism, they recommended the serious study of this problem by standard epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory methods. Later, the epidemiologic studies described higher frequency of the syndrome than it had been earlier suggested. The results verifying the hypothesis about the primary psychiatric initiation of the problems are controversial. The possible role of immunity systems dysfunction in the causality of the syndrome is still studied.

Max Josef von Pettenkofer (1818-1901) - the "High Priest" of Hygiene

Otakar Klein, Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):143-145  

The rash growth of industrialized society in the 19th century has been accompanied i.a. by a rapid growth of the population in urban centers, an enormous pollution of waterways and the ambient air. Large cities of that time were often plagued with epidemics of typhoid fever and cholera. In 1865, Max Josef von Pettenkofer initiated lectures in hygiene at the University of Munich, and in 1879 established the Institute of Hygiene at the Faculty of Medicine in Munich. Since the second half of the 19th century Pettenkofer was putting through the setting up of a sewage system for Munich, as well as that of a central supply and distribution of safe water,...

Nutrition Friendly Schools Initiative: a New Programme of the World Health Organization

Jana Fialová

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):146-148  

The new programme of WHO named Nutrition Friendly School Initiative (NFSI) is presented in our review. There is discussed its relation to similar activities at both international and national levels. The aim of the new initiative is to provide a friendly and enabling environment for schools in close cooperation with parents and other keepholders to educate children to adopt the overall healthy lifestyle and thus to prevent an ever more freguent incidence of obesity and nutrition-related diseases and ill health. The efficiency of this initiative will be ensured by tools such as the accreditation of schools and consequent periodical evaluations.

How to Publish Epidemiological Observational Studies

Vladimír Janout

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):149-150  

Biomedical research largely involves observation. Published results are often not properly documented which hampers assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a study. That is why STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) was developed. Recommendations for cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies have been prepared in the form of a checklist of 22 items, presented in this paper.

Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee of the Association of Public Health and Community Medicine of the Czech Medical Association JEP in Teplice, September 16, 2008

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):126  

The EU Project Hippocrates: Educating Healthcare Educators

Miroslava Skývová, Hana Janatová

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):134  

The Journal Československá hygiena in 1968

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):140  

Central European Journal of Public Health No.2, Vol.16, 2008

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):142  

Marking the Anniversary of Vladimír Valenta, M.D., Ph.D.

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):145  

Conclusions of the Conference "Nutrition and Health 2008"

Bohumil Turek

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):148  

Marking the Anniversary of Prof. Drahoslava Hrubá, M.D., Ph.D.

Zuzana Brázdová

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):151  

Assoc. Prof. Hana Provazníková, M.D., Ph.D. - Hana's Story

Lumír Komárek

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):151-152  

Epigenomics on the Agenda of American Institutes

Redakce

Hygiena 2008, 53(4):152