Public Health 4 (Preventive Medicine)

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

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).

Lectures

• 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. Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases. New infectious diseases. - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 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. Genetically modified organisms. - Gyöngyi Zoltán

Practices

• 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.

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

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

Literature developed by the Department

Educational material uploaded on PotePedia.

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Participation in practicals is obligatory which is registered.

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

Mid-term exams

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Making up for missed classes

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

Exam topics/questions

Public Health 4.

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

38. New infectious diseases. Bioterrorism

Examiners

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

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

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