Hygiena, 2015 (vol. 60), issue 1

EDITORIAL

Communal Hygiene in the National Health 2020 Strategy

Helena Kazmarová

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):3  

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Effect of Exercise Programme with Compensatory Aim Targeting on Spine Mobility in School Girls of Secondary High School

Elena Bendíková, Daniela Stackeová

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):4-9 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1330  

Prevalence of functional disorders of the musculoskeletal apparatus in the school population is a precondition for structural changes and often the cause of invalidity in adulthood in Slovakia. Also statistics of health insurance companies correspond with this fact. Therefore, early diagnosis and prevention in children and youth carried out through exercise programs are one of the options of prevention of these facts in later age. The study presents a partial objective and tasks with the intention of the intervention exercise programme to influence selected determinants of the musculoskeletal system in female pupils of fourth grades at secondary schools...

Iodine Content in the Urine of Students and Employees of the University of South Bohemia

Zuzana Křížová, Jan Trávníček, Lucie Vítková, Jitka Richterová, Martina Staňková

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):10-13 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1351  

The aim includes data of the iodine content in urine, mainly students of the University of South Bohemia in the České Budějovice. The experiment included a total of 42 students and 21 employees. Empirical data were obtained within the grant project GAJU 011/2013/Z. The content of iodine in the samples was determined on the basis of alkaline combustion by a spectrophotometric method according to Sandell-Kolthoff. The aim of the study was to assess the supply of students and staff Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in the České Budějovice (JU v ČB ) iodine on urinary iodine examination. The average content in the urine of all (n=63)...

REVIEW PAPERS

Health Risk Substances in Food and Options for the Prevention of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases from the Point of Nutritional Toxicology

Bohumil Turek, Petr Šíma, Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):14-19 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1308  

The aim of nutritional toxicology is to reduce to the utmost the incidence of toxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic substances in foodstuffs, and to ensure an adequate supply of protective factors. Limitation of the intake of undesirable health-damaging substances can be achieved in two ways: by strict supervision of the composition and the quality of food raw materials, and by the choice of friendly technologies for their manufacturing and culinary preparation. This primarily concerns the use of processing techniques that allow regulation of the heating (temperature) of foodstuffs so as to avoid as much as possible the formation of compounds that directly...

Transformations of Requirements for Daylight and Solar Access of Buildings and Urban Planning

Jan Kaňka

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):20-24 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1367  

This paper describes the relationship of requirements for daylighting and solar access of buildings with urban planning over the past decades including current trends. Discussed are options of the response of preventive health care to the new trends in urban design in the field of lighting technology.

A Hygienist Who Should Have Been Forgotten (Marking the 165th Anniversary of Isidor Soyka's Birth)

František Kožíšek

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):25-29 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1370  

Isidor Soyka (1850-1889) was a pioneer of scientific methods in hygiene in Bohemia. He studied medicine and then shortly worked in the field of pathological anatomy. He was the first person to describe primary amyloidosis. After his studies under Max von Pettenkofer in Munich, he was appointed professor of hygiene and founded the first Hygiene Institute (as a part of the German Faculty of Medicine in Prague) in Bohemia. He published many works specializing in hygiene and bacteriology and greatly contributed to sanitation projects in Prague and other cities. National and religious intolerance led this pioneer of hygiene to take his own life. Soyka's...

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Legal Actualities during 1.10.2014-31.1.2015

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):30-31 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1377  

DISCUSSION

A Response to the Anniversary Comments of Assoc. Prof. Jaroslav Kříž: 25 Years of Attempted Progress

Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):32-33 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1364  

The Nutrition Hygiene Meeting Teplice 2014 from the Point of View of a Practicing "Nutritionist"

Zuzana Bartošová

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):34 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1342  

Response to the Discussion Comment of Zuzana Bartošová, The Nutrition Hygiene Meeting, Teplice 2014 from the Point of View of a Practicing "Nutritionist"

Jan Ševčík

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):35-36 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1343  

NEWS

Meeting on the Physical Activity of People in Europe

Marie Nejedlá

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):19  

Ing. Jiří Kodl Has Passed Away

Bohumil Turek

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):24  

Report on the Publication of the Journal Hygiena in 2014

Redakce

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):29  

A New Committee of the Society of Hygiene and Communal Medicine, J. E. Purkyně Memorial Czech Medical Association

Redakce

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):29  

The Cause of Diseases as Reflected in 16th Century Opinions

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Hygiena 2015, 60(1):31  

Aristotle on Wisdom

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Hygiena 2015, 60(1):31  

The Sanitary and Epidemiology Service in the Ukraine

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Hygiena 2015, 60(1):33  

Problems with Salt Intake in the Czech Republic

Redakce

Hygiena 2015, 60(1):36