Hygiena, 2017 (vol. 62), issue 2

We Were and We Will Be

Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):43-44 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1531  

Views of citizens of the Czech Republic on nutrition education

Leona Mužíková

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):45-49 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1509  

A representative sociological survey of Czech citizens' views on health care and health issues has been carried out regularly since 1995. In 2014, the survey first included questions enquiring about Czech citizens' views on nutrition education. The survey aimed to establish how well informed Czech citizens are about nutrition and diet, what their information sources are, and whether or not nutrition education should be taught in primary schools. The field survey consisted in a standardized controlled interview with a respondent, and the data were collected throughout the Czech Republic by professional inquirers of Spirox, s.r.o. The sample set had...

Lifestyle and changes in body composition

Jan Hlúbik, Pavol Hlúbik

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):50-53 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1514  

Inappropriate lifestyle with excess energy in the diet and lack of physical activity is the cause of a positive energy balance. Obesity occurs most commonly as a result of a positive energy balance. Obesity is characterized by increase of BMI (body mass index) and percentage of body fat. Dietary therapy is the basis of a complex therapy for people with overweight and obesity. In a clinically healthy 45-year-old man there was realized a six year non-pharmacological overweight therapy. When the patient was behaving according to dietary and exercise recommendations a decrease in body weight on average 3.2 kg per month, decrease in body fat, decrease in...

CURRENT TRENDS IN THE PROCESS OF RISK ASSESSMENT OF EXPOSURE TO XENOBIOTICS INCLUDING DIETARY INTAKE

Katarína Kromerová, Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):54-61 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1512  

New trends in risk assessment of exposure to xenobiotics (including via food) respond to rapid advances in science, risk assessment methodologies, the generation of and access to a huge volume of data on various factors and parameters and changes in the regulatory environment. On the other hand, as such they constitute additional challenges. There is a clear tendency for an integrated approach to risk assessment of exposure to xenobiotics including those in the food chain on several levels. The aim of these approaches is to ensure that the result of the risk assessment process by its qualified estimation as established by law reflects as closely as...

On the establishment of the Public Health Service in Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):62-65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1530  

The Public Health Service in the former Czechoslovakia got started in 1952 and its development and work are documented in many sources except for the years 1951 and 1952 when the system was being prepared conceptually. According to the few documents that are available, on the establishment of the public health service, there has participated the Ukrainian professor of hygiene N. N. Litvinov from the former Soviet Union on request from the Czechoslovak government, along with Czechoslovak professors Vilém Škovránek and Pavel Macúch. Summarized is available information, however, there continues to be a minimum of authentic facts from that time.

Legal actualities during 1. 4. 2017 – 15. 5. 2017

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):66  

Health risk assessment of air pollution, general principles

Redakce

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):67  

Přehled vývoje poznatků a směrnic WHO o kvalitě ovzduší | A Review of the Evolution of WHO Air Quality Guidelines

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):67  

Noise Levels in Greek Nurseries

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):67  

Dynamics of the Smoking Habit in the USA, 2005–2015

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):68  

Káva v chemoprevenci nádorů

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):68  

Visual Feedback for the Lowering of Noise Levels

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):65  

The Silesian Meeting on Preventive Medicine 2017 Conference

Renáta Brablcová

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):69-71  

Ninth Global Health Promotion Conference

Redakce

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):71  

Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health

Redakce

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):72  

Declaration of the Committee of the Society of Hygiene and Community Medicine on the Prohibition of Smoking in Restaurants

SHKM

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):72  

A New Service for Readers of the Hygiena Journal

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(2):72