Public Health 4 (Preventive Medicine)

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2026-2027

Thematik

The aim of the subject is to form a preventive attitude. The physicians have to know the different preventive strategies and they have to be able to use them in the practice.

After Public Health 6 the students must take a public health final exam which includes the material of all the Public Health subjects (Public Health 1 - 6).

Vorlesungen

• 1. The role of nutrition in non-communicable disease (especially cardiovascular disease) prevention. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 2. Nutrition and cancer. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 3. Diet and nutrition. Basics of healthy diet. - Szabó István (Népeg)
• 4. Dietary recommendation. Dietary status in the world. - Szabó István (Népeg)
• 5. Special dietary practice; risks and benefits - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 6.

  Genetically modified organisms.

  - Gyöngyi Zoltán
• 7. Plant-derived bioactive components in diet. Chemoprevention. Food supplements and functional foods. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 8. Food contaminants, food additives. Food safety. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 9. Human genetics in public health I. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 10. Human genetics in public health II. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 11. Genomics and epigenetics in public health. Nutrigenomics. - Járomi Luca
• 12. Molecular carcinogenesis, biomarkers, prevention. - Járomi Luca
• 13. The epidemic process. Routes of transmission. Procession of infectious diseases. Epidemiological status in the world. - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 14. Airborne infections. - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 15. Enteral infections I. - Bellyeiné Pozsgai Éva
• 16. Enteral infections II. Viral hepatitis. - Bellyeiné Pozsgai Éva
• 17. Epidemiology and prevention of haematogenic and lymphogenic infections - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 18. Hospital hygiene. Nosocomial infections. Sterilization, disinfection. - Gyöngyi Zoltán
• 19. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 20.

  Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases. New infectious diseases.

  - Varga Csaba (Népeg)

Praktika

• 1. Nutritional screening.
• 2. Maintaining and/or restoring energy balance: physical activity and nutrition. Epidemiology of obesity.
• 3. Food safety lab practicals I.
• 4. Food safety lab practicals II.
• 5. Possibilities for prevention of epidemics.
• 6. Vaccination.
• 7. Epidemiology and prevention of infections transmitted through the skin.
• 8. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonoses.

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Edit Paulik: Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Medicina Publishing House, Budapest 2013.

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

Educational material uploaded on PotePedia.

Skript

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Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

Participation in practicals is obligatory which is registered.

Absences should not exceed 2x45 min. Otherwise signature of grade book is denied.

Semesteranforderungen

Active participation in the lecture is an advantage for the exam.

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

Students may attend the practical of another group on the same week. Pre-consultation with practical leader is needed.

Prüfungsfragen

Public Health 4.

Topic list: 

1. Role of nutrition in prevention of cardiovascular diseases 
2. Role of nutrition in prevention of cancers 
3. Principles of healthy diet 
4. Epidemiology of malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies 
5. Dietary guidelines 
6. Special nutritional considerations: vegetarianism 
7. Special nutritional considerations: Mediterranean diet, DASH- (Dietary Approaches to 
Stop Hypertension) diet 
8. Special nutritional considerations: trendy diets 
9. Assessment of nutritional status, nutritional screening 
10. Epidemiology of obesity 
11. Dietary supplements and functional foods 
12. Food additives 
13. Food safety, food safety testing 
14. Chemoprevention 
15. Genetically modified organisms 
16. Interaction of environmental and genetical factors in disease development 
17. Genomics and epigenetics in public health. Nutrigenomics 
18. Molecular basics of carcinogenesis 
19. Primary and secondary factors of epidemic process (virulence, source of infection, means of transmission, susceptible host) 
20. Nosocomial infections. Sterilization, disinfection 
21. Infectious diseases worldwide 
22. Prevention of infectious diseases: vaccination, chemoprophylaxis 
23. Epidemiology and prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases, mandatory immunisation for children 
24. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne bacterial infections 
25. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne viral infections 
26. Characteristics, types, occurrence and prevention of enteric infections 
27. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric bacterial infections 
28. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric viral infections 
29. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric helminth and protozoon infections 
30. Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitides 
31. Epidemiology and prevention of haematogenic and lymphogenic infections 
32. Epidemiology and prevention of infections transmitted through the skin 
33. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic helminth and bacterial infections 
34. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic protozoon and viral infections 
35. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (excluding AIDS) 
36. Epidemiology and prevention of AIDS 
37. Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases 

Prüfer

• Bellyeiné Pozsgai Éva
• Berényi Károly
• Gyöngyi Zoltán
• Horváth-Sarródi Andrea
• Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• Kiss Zsuzsanna (Orsós Zsuzsanna)
• Szendi Katalin
• Varga Csaba (Népeg)

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen

• Bellyeiné Pozsgai Éva
• Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• Berényi Károly
• Bőszné Murányi Edit
• Rákosy-Vokó Zsuzsa
• Szendi Katalin