Preventive Medicine 4.

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2026-2027

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.

Lectures

• 1.

  Epidemiology and prevention of mental disorders 1.

  - Horváth-Sarródi Andrea
• 2.

  Epidemiology and prevention of mental disorders 2.

  - Horváth-Sarródi Andrea
• 3.

  Epidemiology and prevention of suicide and accidents

  - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 4.

  Epidemiology and prevention of chronic respiratory diseases

  - Horváth-Sarródi Andrea
• 5.

  Prevention of non-communicable diseases; mandatory and recommended screening.

  - Horváth-Sarródi Andrea
• 6.

  Basics of the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Global trends related to infectious diseases.

  - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 7.

  Epidemiology and prevention of respiratory infections.

  - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 8.

  Epidemiology and prevention of enteric infections.

  - Bellyeiné Pozsgai Éva
• 9.

  Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitis. Prion diseases.

  - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 10.

  Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

  - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 11.

  Epidemiology and prevention of other communicable diseases.

  - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 12.

  Epidemiology and prevention of other communicable diseases.

  - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 13.

  Environmental health – a global view

  - Varga Csaba (Népeg)
• 14.

  Health impacts of air pollution.

  - Szabó István (Népeg)
• 15.

  Health impacts of water and soil pollution.

  - Márovics Gergely Péter
• 16.

  Environmental pollutants of the Anthropocene.

  - Szabó István (Népeg)
• 17.

  The health impacts of climate change.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 18.

  Environmental health: case studies

  - Szabó István (Népeg)
• 19.

  Health impact assessment

  - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)
• 20.

  Complex health concepts: Global health, one health, planetary health

  - Kiss István Zoltán (Népeg)

Practices

• 1.

  The impact of sleep quality on health

• 2.

  The impact of sleep quality on health

• 3.

  Possibilities to prevent epidemics. Vaccinations.

• 4.

  Possibilities to prevent epidemics. Vaccinations.

• 5.

  Infection control.

• 6.

  Infection control.

• 7.

  Genotoxicology. Risk assessment.

• 8.

  Genotoxicology. Risk assessment.

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

Bérczi B.: Public Health 3 Notes 

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

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

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

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

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

• KURZUSHOZ RENDELT OKTATÓ