Hygiena, 2017 (vol. 62), issue 3

The Chief Public Health Officer of the Slovak Republic on the 65th Anniversary of the Public Health Service

Ján Mikas

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):75-76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1545  

ECTOPARASITE BED BUG (CIMEX LECTULARIUS) HAS ONCE AGAIN RETURNED TO HUMAN HABITATS ALSO IN SLOVAKIA

Anna Totková, Ľudmila Ševčíková, Ľubica Argalášová, Daniel Böhmer, Vanda Repiská, Jana Malová, Andrej Karkalík, Adrián Totka

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):77-84 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1541  

Introduction: In the 1970s and 1980s we noticed the occurrence of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius Linné, 1758) in flats, family houses and accommodation facilities in Slovakia and only sporadically in the Czech Republic. Under regular monitoring of this ectoparasite by hygienists from a department of disinfection, disinsection, and deratization, it was possible not only to eliminate the occurrence of the parasite but in the 1980s even to eradicate it. Today, it is necessary again to address this major global health issue. Cimex lectularius has once again returned to human habitats. Its biological development and activity are bond to...

New Trends in the Prevention of Biofilm Formation in HealthCare Premises

Iveta Danilová, Irena Lovětinská-Šlamborová

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):85-89 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1520  

Most bacteria exist as a cell community that adheres to living or inert surfaces. This fellowship is called a biofilm and it is often associated with health complications. Bacterial biofilm infections are especially problematic because the sessile bacteria resist the host's immune mechanisms, antibiotics and disinfectants. The review deals with the principle of biofilm formation and with aspects that affect this process. It tries to bring readers new trends in modern wound dressing, in the treatment of healthcare premises, water and invasive medical devices, which should lead to a minimization of biofilm formation and the incidence of health- care...

HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT AND PSYCHoSOMATIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF RISK PERCEPTIONPodíl tabáku na úmrtích ve východní Evropě

Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):90-93 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1555  

Qualified assessment of potential health risks in the living and working environment, related to existing buildings and planned industrial, transport or other building activities/projects is an essential part of their audit. While the initial phase of the risk assessment, namely its identification and exposure assessment, are of a purely naturalistic nature, the self-estimation of the risk level already includes increasingly arbitrary aspects (eg safety factors). Risk communication and, in particular, risk management mean that, in psychosocial terms, decision-making is then put into a political context. An indispensable component of that system of...

Significance and Physical Activity Options in the Armed Forces of the Czech RepublicZdravotní efekt zákazu kouření cigaret na veřejnosti ve Švýcarsku

Vladimír Pavlík, Jana Fajfrová, Marek Kulich, Petr Lašák, Tomáš Halajčuk

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):94-98 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1542  

The study is focused on the significance of physical activity in primary prevention and its positive influence on decrease in the occurrence of non-communicable diseases in the population. Benefits for individual cardiometabolic diseases resulting from regular physical activity are described in the first part of the work. The second part deals with the options of time and place for physical activity in the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic (ACR), individual types of physical preparation in the ACR, sports possibilities and kinds of sports in individual units and types of physical activity testing. The problem of preventive rehabilitation and spa treatment...

Legal Actualities during 1.4.2017–15.5.2017

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):99-100  

Malignant Tumours in Europe and in the Czech Republic

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):84  

Efforts to Increase Physical Activity in School Children in the USA

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):89  

The Contribution of Tobacco to Mortality in Eastern Europe

Redakce

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):93  

Health Effects of a Public Smoking Ban in Switzerland

Redakce

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):98  

Global Warming and Safety of Food of Animal Origin

Redakce

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):100  

Professor Provazník's 80th Birthday

Lumír Komárek

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):101  

Our Professor Jaroslav Kotulán

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):101-102  

In Memory of Prof. PhDr. Vladimír Kebza, CSc.

Lumír Komárek

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):103  

The Fifth Effective Health Promotion Strategy Conference

Marie Nejedlá

Hygiena 2017, 62(3):103-104