Public Health 2

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2021-2022

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

• 1. Health effects of alcohol consumption and smoking I. - Dr. Berényi Károly
• 2. Health effects of alcohol consumption and smoking II. - Dr. Berényi Károly
• 3. Global drug trends. Drug trends in Hungary I. - Dr. Szabó István
• 4. Global drug trends. Drug trends in Hungary II. - Dr. Szabó István
• 5. Basics of toxicology. - Dr. Szabó István
• 6. Epidemiology of poisonings. - Dr. Szabó István
• 7. Basics of occupational health. - Dr. Németh Balázs
• 8. Health effects of mechanical, ergonomic and psychological factors. - Dr. Németh Balázs
• 9. Occupational carcinogens I. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 10. Occupational carcinogens II. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 11. Basics of environmental health. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 12. Environmental health; global trends. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 13. Air pollution. - Dr. Szabó István
• 14. Air pollution. - Dr. Szabó István
• 15. Water hygiene, soil pollution I. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 16. Water hygiene, soil pollution II. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 17. Basics of infectious diseases. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 18. Epidemiology of infectious diseases: global situation. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 19. Epidemiology of airborne diseases I. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 20. Epidemiology of airborne diseases II. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 21. Epidemiology of infectious diseases transmitted by food and water I. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 22. Epidemiology of infectious diseases transmitted by food and water II. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 23. Epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases. - Dr. Németh Balázs
• 24. Hepatitis - Dr. Németh Balázs
• 25. Haematogenic and lymphogenic infections. Epidemiology of infections transmitted through the skin. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 26. Epidemiology of zoonoses. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 27. Prion diseases. New infectious diseases. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 28. Public health methods in disasters. Chemical and biological weapons, (bio)terrorism. - Dr. Szabó István

Practices

• 1. General epidemiology; meta-analysis, systematic review, databases
• 2. General epidemiology; meta-analysis, systematic review, databases
• 3. Nosocomial infections; Disinfection and sterilization
• 4. Nosocomial infections; Disinfection and sterilization
• 5. Chemical and microbiological qualification of drinking water
• 6. Chemical and microbiological qualification of drinking water
• 7. Vaccination, vaccination schedule
• 8. Vaccination, vaccination schedule
• 9. Genotoxicity laboratory practical I.
• 10. Genotoxicity laboratory practical II.
• 11. Chemical safety, risk assessment
• 12. Chemical safety, risk assessment
• 13. Health effects of radiation
• 14. Health effects of radiation

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. Managing epidemics. 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. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric bacterial infections
9. Characteristics, types, occurrence and prevention of enteric viral infections
10. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric helminth and protozoon infections
11. Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitis
12. Epidemiology and prevention of haematogenic and lymphogenic infections
13. Epidemiology and prevention of infections transmitted through the skin
14. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic infections
15. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (excluding AIDS)
16. Epidemiology and prevention of AIDS
17. Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases
18. New infectious diseases. Bioterrorism
19. Epidemiology of alcohol consumption
20. Epidemiology of smoking
21, Epidemiology of drug use
22. Basics of toxicology. Epidemiology of poisonings.
23, Basics of occupational health.
24, Health effects of mechanical, ergonomic and psychological factors.
25, Occupational cancers
26. Basic principles of ecology. Human environment, human ecology.
27, Outdoor air pollution
28, Indoor air pollution.
29, Environmental-health of water.
30. Health effects of soil contamination. Health effects and management of waste water, wastes and hazardous wastes

Practicals:
31. Criteria of the meta-analyses and the systematic review
32. Health effects of microbiological and chemical water pollutants, water quality testing
33, Genotoxicity
34. Occupational toxicology: chemical safety
35, Risk assessment, management and communication
36, Health effects of radiation

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