Public Health 6 (Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Medicine)

Data

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

Topic

The aim of the subject is to present the basics of occupational medicine and major risk factors in work environment and possibilities of prevention of occupational diseases.

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.

  Organization and levels of occupational health services.

  Labour safety.

  - Gyöngyi Zoltán
• 2.

  Psychosocial and biological hazards, with particular reference to health care workers.

  Occupational accidents.

  - Gyöngyi Zoltán
• 3. Chemical hazards. - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 4. Occupational toxicology; chemical safety. - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 5. Occupational cancers I. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 6. Occupational cancers II. - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 7.

  Physical risk factors.

  - Szabó István (Népeg)

Practices

• 1. Increased exposures at workplace and risk assessment I. - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 2. Increased exposures at workplace and risk assessment II. - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 3. Genotoxicity laboratory practical I. - Szendi Katalin
• 4. Genotoxicity laboratory practical II. - Szendi Katalin
• 5. Toxicology of solid particles.
• 6. Ergonomics.
• 7. Medical and occupational health aspects of migration and disasters

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

-

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

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).

Public Health Final Exam

1. History and objectives of public health

2. Definition of health and disease

3. Determinants of health

4. Social risk factors

5. Levels of prevention

6. Health promotion

7. Health politics

8. Maternal and newborn health

9. Child and adolescent health

10. Health concerns of elderly. Aging societies

11. Minorities: Health issues and disparities

12. Health issues and disparities of people living with disabilities

13. Evidence-based medicine and prevention

14. History and objectives of epidemiology

15. Causation in epidemiology: association and causation

16. Epidemiological indicators I: indicators of disease frequency and population impact of a disease

17. Epidemiological indicators II: definition and measures of relative risk and odds ratio

18. Standardization

19. Epidemiological studies: parameters, design

20. Descriptive epidemiological studies, cross-sectional studies

21. Ecological studies. Immigrant studies

22. Case-control studies

23. Cohort studies

24. Experimental (interventional) epidemiological studies

25. Meta-analysis, systematic review

26. Errors and bias in epidemiological studies

27. Confounders, effect modifiers and possibilities for elimination

28. Molecular epidemiology

29. Basic principles of screening

30. Optional and mandatory screening

31. Demography: definition, methods, data sources

32. Demographic indicators: measures of mortality

33. Demographic indicators: measures describing population groups. Population pyramids

34. Demographic indicators: measures of birth and fertility

35. Role of nutrition in prevention of cardiovascular diseases

36. Role of nutrition in prevention of cancers

37. Principles of healthy diet

38. Epidemiology of malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies

39. Dietary guidelines

40. Special nutritional considerations: vegetarianism

41. Special nutritional considerations: Mediterranean diet, DASH- (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet

42. Special nutritional considerations: trendy diets

43. Assessment of nutritional status, nutritional screening

44. Dietary supplements and functional foods

45. Food additives

46. Food safety, food safety testing

47. Chemoprevention

48. Genetically modified organisms

49. Interaction of environmental and genetic factors in disease development

50. Genomics and epigenetics in public health. Nutrigenomics

51. Molecular basics of carcinogenesis

52. Primary and secondary factors of epidemic process (virulence, source of infection, means of transmission, susceptible host)

53. Nosocomial infections. Sterilization, disinfection

54. Infectious diseases worldwide

55. Prevention of infectious diseases: vaccination, chemoprophylaxis

56. Epidemiology and prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases, mandatory immunisation for children

57. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne bacterial infections

58. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne viral infections

59. Characteristics, types, occurrence and prevention of enteric infections

60. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric bacterial infections

61. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric viral infections

62. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric helminth and protozoon infections

63. Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitides

64. Epidemiology and prevention of haematogenic and lymphogenic infections

65. Epidemiology and prevention of infections transmitted through the skin

66. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic helminth and bacterial infections

67. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic protozoon and viral infections

68. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (excluding AIDS)

69. Epidemiology and prevention of AIDS

70. Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases

71. New infectious diseases. Bioterrorism

72. Importance of non-communicable diseases in developed countries (mortality, morbidity, trends)

73. Epidemiology of ischaemic heart disease

74. Main modifiable risk factors of coronary heart disease

75. Other modifiable risk factors of coronary heart disease

76. Risk factors of coronary heart disease (excluding main and other modifiable risk factors)

77. Epidemiology and prevention of cerebrovascular diseases

78. Epidemiology and prevention of hypertension

79. Cardiovascular diseases: risk assessment and prevention

80. Morbidity and mortality of malignant diseases

81. Role of infectious diseases in tumour development

82. Risk factors of malignant diseases

83. Screening of malignant diseases

84. Epidemiology and prevention of lung cancer

85. Epidemiology and prevention of colorectal cancer

86. Epidemiology and prevention of breast cancer

87. Epidemiology and prevention of prostate and cervix cancer

88. Epidemiology and prevention of liver-, pancreas- and gastric cancer

89. Epidemiology and prevention of head and neck cancers and skin cancers

90. Epidemiology and prevention of diabetes

91. Epidemiology and prevention of obesity

92. Epidemiology and prevention of osteoporosis

93. Epidemiology and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

94. Epidemiology and prevention of asthma

95. Epidemiology and prevention of allergic rhinitis

96. Epidemiology and prevention of hepatic cirrhosis

97. Epidemiology and prevention of ulcer disease

98. Epidemiology and prevention of inflammatory bowel diseases

99. Epidemiology and prevention of suicide

100. Epidemiology and prevention of depression and mood disorders

101. Epidemiology and prevention of anxiety disorders

102. Epidemiology and prevention of schizophrenia and dementias

103. Epidemiology and prevention of addictions

104. Recommended and compulsory screening methods for non-communicable diseases (excluding cancers)

105. Basic principles of ecology. Human environment, human ecology.

106. Health effects of global environmental issues

107. Air pollutants and their health effects

108. Health effects of microbiological and chemical water pollutants, water quality testing

109. Health effects of soil contamination. Health effects and management of waste water, wastes and hazardous wastes

110. Risk assessment, management and communication

111. Occupational toxicology, chemical safety

112. Occupational cancers

113. Physical hazards: disorders caused by noise and vibration and their prevention

114. Chemical hazards: Industrial and agricultural toxicology of organic compounds

115. Chemical hazards: Industrial and agricultural toxicology of inorganic compounds

116. Psychosocial and biological hazards in the workplace

117. Health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations

118. Ergonomic factors. Health effects of inorganic and organic dusts and their prevention

119. Occupational diseases of health care workers and prevention. Occupational accidents.

120. Migration and catastrophes, medical and occupational health considerations

Examiners

• Gyöngyi Zoltán
• Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• Szendi Katalin
• Varga Csaba (Népeg)

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Gyöngyi Zoltán
• Katz Zoltán
• Marek Erika Mária
• Szabó István (Népeg)
• Szendi Katalin
• Szilárd István
• Varga Csaba (Népeg)