Hygiena, 2013 (vol. 58), issue 3

Restoration of not only the Word Epidemiology

František Kotěšovec

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):99  

Two Decades of Noise Monitoring: Changes of Noise Values in Urban Localities in the Czech Republic

Zdeňka Vandasová, Ondřej Vencálek, Ondřej Dobisík

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):100-105 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0971  

Noise values in selected urban localities in the Czech Republic were subjected to long-term monitoring. Time sequences were analysed by linear regression. A statistically significant development in noise values (expressed by noise indicator L_den) was detected in almost one half of 40 monitored sites during 1994-2006. L_den was decreased in 10 instances and elevated in 7 instances. Changes in the various localities ranged from minus 4 dB/10 years (decrease) to plus 5.5 dB/10 years (increase). A total of 15 localities were evaluated in the 2009-2011 period; changes in trends previously detected were found in two cases. Over the whole...

Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS): Results in Students at Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno

Veronika Šikolová, Hana Sovinová, Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):106-110 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0972  

Backround: From the end of the 1980s worldwide descriptive studies concerned about medical students have been organized. Their results gave data about knowledge, attitudes and smoking behaviour among future physicians and other health professionals as a basis for their future target education about smoking. Methods: From September 2011 to June 2012 220 medical students attending the 6th year filled the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) questionnaire at the end of their State examinations. Results: Almost one quarter of students never...

Effects of Smoking on the Illness Rate of Children up to the Age of Three (Pilot Study)

Ildikó Nagy, Martin Sebera

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):111-116 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0973  

The retrospective data collection whose aim was to prove the effects of smoking associated with the increase of overall illness rate, respiratory infections and the inflammation of the middle ear in children up to the age of 3 living with smoking mothers and in smoking households was carried out in Brno, Czech Republic (CR) and in Southern Slovakia (SR). The study involved 120 mothers of 3 year old children (60 from the CR and 60 from the SR) and the participating practicing pediatricians. The lowest overall illness rate and the lowest number of respiratory diseases was found in the no-smoking families within the monitored group. The highest overall...

Alzheimer's Disease and it's Risk for Next Generations

Jana Povová, Hana Tomášková, Omar Šerý, Petr Ambroz, Kateřina Vařechová, Vladimír Janout

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):117-120 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0974  

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It is a degenerative incurable terminal disease. AD affects a high percentage (75%) of persons with dementia all over the world. Prevalence is very high. Etiology is still unknown. Numerous etiological factors of AD have already been discovered. Pilot evaluation of 334 cases and 102 controls from mental hospitals in project Epidemiology and Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease provided following the results from questionaires and buccal mucosa smears. The questionnaires contain questions about identification, education, lifestyle, vascular risk factors, hobbies, occupation, incidence of the disease...

Assessing the Nutritional Status of the Elderly Hospitalized at a Gerontopsychiatric Ward

Radka Kozáková, Barbora Adamčíková

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):121-124 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0975  

The quality of nutrition in old age affects significantly the overall condition of the body, and significant deficits may contribute to multimorbidity in elderly patients. Early detection of malnutrition in old age can avoid worsening functional performance, serious medical complications, increased morbidity, mortality and impaired quality of life. Increasing age is associated with a greater incidence of nutritional disorders, especially with malnutrition. The prevalence of undernutrition in hospitalized geriatric patients is in the range between 30 to 60% and in the long-term institutionalized it reaches 52-85%. Inaccurate assessment and monitoring...

Application of Options of the QCM Detection Method for the Determination of Concentrations of Toxic Compounds Depending on Resistance Assessments of Barrier Materials

Pavel Otřísal, Stanislav Florus

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):125-129 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0976  

The restricted amount of deployable forces composed of highly specialized units of the Czech Armed Forces Chemical Corps can be limiting within the fulfillment of operational tasks connected with problems concerning the liquidation of consequences of either the employment of Weapons of Mass Destruction or the leakage of Toxic Industrial Materials. The paper points to some aspects of the possible application of the QCM method in determining the concentration of toxic substances that have penetrated, based on the course of permeation curves and after calibration of the measuring equipment. The presented approaches can be applied not only regarding the...

The Radon Programme in the Czech Republic Is Going On

Ariana Lajčíková

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):130-133 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0977  

The Radon programme was launched in the 1980s and at present its 3rd decade is being realised. The autor is a representative of the Czech Ministry of Health with the main task to spread information about the risk of radon and about the possibilities of health protection. There is given information of topical interest about activities of the programme.

Role of the Regional Public Health Autority of the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Methanol Case

Helena Šebáková, Roman Letošník, Ladislava Michálková

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):134-137 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0978  

In the article the onset and consequent course of the methanol case is documented. It focuses on activities in September through December 2012 of the regional public health authority which was, in comparison with other parts of the Czech Republic, intensively confronted with cases of methanol intoxication. In a risk management frame the basic steps included coordination of other services, public communication and adopting measures to prevent further methanol intoxications.

Legal Actualities during 16.4.2013-15.7.2013

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):138-139  

Remembrance of Professor K. Symon on the Anniversary of the 3rd Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University, Prague

Vladimír Bencko, Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):139-140 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a0979  

This year we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Medical Faculty of Hygiene on the grounds of our Charles University in Prague in former Czechoslovakia. An assembly of experienced university teachers specialized in all branches of medicine took care of the succesful start and high quality of teaching since the very beginning of its existence. Among faculty members of that time belonged as an important personality professor Karel Symon, M.D. The authors remind his professional profile and his merit concerning teaching and advancing of the modern concept of hygiene oriented on studies searching for evidence-based solutions.

Meeting of Health Promotion and Primary Prevention Specialists

Marta Špillingová, Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):105-129  

Low Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Tobacco-related Cancer

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):116  

Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of the Epidemiological Evidence in the 1900s Relating Smoking to Lung Cancer

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):120  

Professor Vladimír Bencko Was Awarded a Commemorative Charles University Gold Medal on Occasion of his Anniversary

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2013, 58(3):129