Public Health

Data

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. Leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The definition of health and disease. Health determinants. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 2. Levels of prevention. Health Promotion. Social risk factors. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 3. Basics of Epidemiology - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 4. Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 5. Epidemiology and prevention of cancer - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 6. Epidemiology and prevention of other non-communicable diseases - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 7. Epidemiology of addictions. - Dr. Gyöngyi Zoltán
• 8. Basics of nutrition. Nutritional habits, healthy diet. - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 9. Role of nutrition in the development of major chronic non-communicable diseases - Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• 10. Basics of infectious diseases. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 11. Main categories of infectious diseases and their characterization 1. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 12. Main categories of infectious diseases and their characterization 2. - Dr. Németh Katalin
• 13. Basics of environmental health 1. - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 14. Basics of environmental health 2. Occupational medicine - Dr. Varga Csaba

Practices

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

Maximum of 15 % absence allowed

Mid-term exams

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Making up for missed classes

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Exam topics/questions

1. Leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The definition of health and disease. Health determinants.
2. Health promotion, health education. Social risk factors.
3. Levels of prevention
4. Demography
5. Epidemiological indicators. Epidemiological studies.
6. Screening
7. Morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases
8. Risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular diseases
9. Morbidity and mortality of cancer
10. Risk factors and prevention of cancer
11. Epidemiology and prevention of diabetes
12. Epidemiology and prevention of osteoporosis
13. Epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable respiratory diseases
14. Epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable gastrointestinal diseases
15. Basics of nutrition. Nutritional habits, healthy diet.
16. Role of nutrition in the development of major chronic non-communicable diseases. Epidemiology of obesity
17. Basics of infectious diseases (epidemic process, routes of transmission). Global situation of infectious diseases
18. Practical aspects of infectious disease prevention. Vaccination
19. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne diseases
20. Epidemiology and prevention of foodborne diseases and food poisoning
21. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and viral hepatitis
22. Water hygiene. Soil pollution
23. Air hygiene. Health effects of air pollution
24. Occupational medicine in the dental praxis.
25. Major risk factors in disease development: smoking and alcohol consumption

Examiners

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

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars