Public Health 2

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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. Epidemiology of drug abuse and poisonings I. - Dr. Szabó István
• 4. Epidemiology of drug abuse and poisonings II. - Dr. Szabó István
• 5. Ecology I. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 6. Ecology II. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 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 I. - Dr. Szabó István
• 12. Basics of environmental health II. - Dr. Szabó István
• 13. Air pollution I. - Dr. Szabó István
• 14. Air pollution II. - Dr. Szabó István
• 15. Water hygiene, soil pollution I. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 16. Water hygiene, soil pollution II. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 17. Epidemiology of infectious diseases I. - Bőszné Dr. Murányi Edit
• 18. Epidemiology of infectious diseases II. - Bőszné Dr. Murányi Edit
• 19. Epidemiology of infectious diseases III. - Bőszné Dr. Murányi Edit
• 20. Epidemiology of infectious diseases IV. - Bőszné Dr. Murányi Edit
• 21. Principles of infection control. Epidemiology of infectious diseases: global situation I. - Bőszné Dr. Murányi Edit
• 22. Principles of infection control. Epidemiology of infectious diseases: global situation II. - Bőszné Dr. Murányi Edit
• 23. Environmental pollutants of the anthropocene I. - Dr. Szabó István
• 24. Environmental pollutants of the anthropocene II. - Dr. Szabó István
• 25. Chemical safety I. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 26. Chemical safety II. - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 27. Vaccination I. - Dr. Szendi Katalin
• 28. Vaccination II. - Dr. Szendi Katalin

Practices

• 1. Meta-analysis, systematic review, databases I.
• 2. Meta-analysis, systematic review, databases II.
• 3. How to help to quit smoking I.
• 4. How to help to quit smoking II.
• 5. Mental health and self-knowledge I.
• 6. Mental health and self-knowledge II.
• 7. Preventing cardiovascular diseases I.
• 8. Preventing cardiovascular diseases II.
• 9. Diabetes and obesitas prevention I.
• 10. Diabetes and obesitas prevention II.
• 11. The role of supplements in the prevention of chronic diseases I.
• 12. The role of supplements in the prevention of chronic diseases II.
• 13. Preventing diseases, health promotion – case studies I.
• 14. Preventing diseases, health promotion – case studies II.

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

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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

1. Basics of infectious disease epidemiology.
2. Epidemiology of infectious diseases: global situation.
3. Epidemiology and prevention of airborne infections
4. Epidemiology and prevention of enteric infections
5. Epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitis
6. Epidemiology and prevention of haematogenic and lymphogenic infections
7. Epidemiology and prevention of infections transmitted through the skin
8. Epidemiology and prevention of zoonotic infections
9. Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
10. Epidemiology and prevention of prion diseases
11. Disasters. Bioterrorism.
12. Nosocomial infections. Sterilization, disinfection
13. Infectious diseases that can be prevented with vaccination
14. Epidemiology of alcohol consumption
15. Epidemiology of smoking
16. Epidemiology of drug use
17. Epidemiology of poisonings.
18. Basics of occupational health.
19. Health effects of mechanical, ergonomic and psychological factors.
20. Occupational cancers
21. Basics of environmental health
22. Basic principles of ecology.
23. Outdoor air pollution
24. Indoor air pollution.
25. Environmental health aspects of water

Practicals:
26. Criteria of the meta-analyses and the systematic review
27. Environmental pollutants of the anthropocene
28. Genotoxicology
29. Chemical safety
30. Health effects of radiation

Examiners

• Dr. Berényi Károly
• Dr. Gyöngyi Zoltán
• Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• Dr. Szabó István
• Dr. Szendi Katalin
• Dr. Varga Csaba

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

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