Public Health 2

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2020-2021

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 28 hours

practices: 14 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 42 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OPO-KE2-T
  • 3 kredit
  • Pharmacy
  • Med.-biol. theoretical module and practical skills modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

OPO-KE1-T completed

Exam course:

yes

Course headcount limitations

min. 1

Topic

Public Health represents the preventive side of medicine. The subject deals with primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of the most challenging diseases of public health.
The aims are to exam the process of disease development and demonstrate the possibilities of prevention on individual and community levels.

Lectures

  • 0. Health effects of alcohol consumption and smoking I. - Dr. Berényi Károly
  • 0. Health effects of alcohol consumption and smoking II. - Dr. Berényi Károly
  • 0. Global drug trends. Drug trends in Hungary I. - Dr. Szabó István
  • 0. Global drug trends. Drug trends in Hungary II. - Dr. Szabó István
  • 0. Basics of toxicology. - Dr. Szabó István
  • 0. Epidemiology of poisoning; global trends. - Dr. Szabó István
  • 0. Basics of occupational health. - Dr. Tibold Antal
  • 0. Health effects of mechanical, ergonomic and psychological factors. - Dr. Tibold Antal
  • 0. Occupational carcinogens I. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
  • 0. Occupational carcinogens II. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
  • 0. Basics of environmental health. - Dr. Varga Csaba
  • 0. Environmental health; global trends. - Dr. Varga Csaba
  • 0. Air pollution. - Dr. Szabó István
  • 0. Health effects of dust exposure. - Dr. Szabó István
  • 0. Water hygiene, soil pollution I. - Dr. Varga Csaba
  • 0. Water hygiene, soil pollution II. - Dr. Varga Csaba
  • 0. Basics of infectious diseases. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of infectious diseases: global situation. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of airborne diseases I. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of airborne diseases II. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of infectious diseases transmitted by food and water I. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of infectious diseases transmitted by food and water II. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases. - Dr. Németh Balázs
  • 0. Hepatitis - Dr. Németh Balázs
  • 0. Haematogenic and lymphogenic infections. Epidemiology of infections transmitted through the skin. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Epidemiology of zoonoses. - Dr. Németh Katalin
  • 0. Prion diseases. New infectious diseases. - Dr. Varga Csaba
  • 0. Public health methods in disasters. Chemical and biological weapons, (bio)terrorism. - Dr. Szabó István

Practices

  • 0. Nosocomial infections; Disinfection and sterilization II.
  • 0. Physical exposures I.
  • 0. Physical exposures II.
  • 0. General epidemiology; meta-analysis, systematic review, databases I.
  • 0. General epidemiology; meta-analysis, systematic review, databases II.
  • 0. Chemical and microbiological qualification of drinking water I.
  • 0. Chemical and microbiological qualification of drinking water II.
  • 0. Genotoxicity laboratory practical I.
  • 0. Genotoxicity laboratory practical II.
  • 0. Chemical safety, risk assessment I.
  • 0. Chemical safety, risk assessment II.
  • 0. Vaccination, vaccination schedule I.
  • 0. Vaccination, vaccination schedule II.
  • 0. Nosocomial infections; Disinfection and sterilization I.

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 Neptun.

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

There are no make-up classes.

Exam topics/questions

1. Primary and secondary factors of epidemic process (virulence, source of infection, means of transmission, susceptible host)
2. Nosocomial infections. Sterilization, disinfection
3. Infectious diseases worldwide
4. Prevention of infectious diseases: vaccination, chemoprophylaxis
5. Epidemiology and prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases, mandatory immunisation for children
6. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne bacterial infections
7. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne viral infections
8. Characteristics, types, occurrence and prevention of enteric infections
9. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric bacterial infections
10. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric viral infections
11. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric helminth and protozoon infections
12. Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitides
13. Epidemiology and prevention of haematogenic and lymphogenic infections
14. Epidemiology and prevention of infections transmitted through the skin
15. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic helminth and bacterial infections
16. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic protozoon and viral infections
17. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (excluding AIDS)
18. Epidemiology and prevention of AIDS
19. Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases
20. New infectious diseases. Bioterrorism
21. Epidemiology and prevention of addictions
22. Criteria of the meta-analyses and the systematic review
23. Basic principles of ecology. Human environment, human ecology.
24. Settlement health, transportation and health, Health effects of interiors, health and the built environment
25. Environmental monitoring and protection. Health effects of global environmental issues
26. Air pollutants and their health effects
27. Health effects of microbiological and chemical water pollutants, water quality testing
28. Health effects of soil contamination. Health effects and management of waste water, wastes and hazardous wastes
29. History of occupational health. Organization and levels of occupational health services. Work safety
30. Risk assessment, management and communication
31. Occupational toxicology: chemical safety
32. Occupational cancers
33. Physical hazards: health effects of low and high temperature
34. Physical hazards: disorders caused by noise and vibration and their prevention
35. Basics of toxikology, epidemiology poisonings.
36. Psychosocial and biological hazards. Ergonomic factors.
37. Health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations
38. Health effects of inorganic and organic dusts and their prevention
39. New and emerging risks in occupational medicine
40. Occupational diseases of health care workers and prevention. Occupational accidents.
41. Migration and catastrophes, medical and occupational health considerations

Examiners

  • Dr. Gyöngyi Zoltán
  • Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
  • Dr. Varga Csaba

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Dr. Gyöngyi Zoltán
  • Dr. Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • Dr. Szendi Katalin
  • Dr. Varga Csaba