Technological Disasters and Their Impact on Health

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

  • Varjas Tímea

    assistant professor,
    Department of Public Health Medicine

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OSF-TEK-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Dentistry
  • Optional modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ÁOK ETK GYTK TTK

Topic

Technological disasters took part in the ever-growing environmental pollution. These exposures mean an acute and also a chronic exposure affecting our health. The aim of the course is to highlight the most memorable disasters from the 20th century. Risk of the toxic agents, the underlying failures that lead to disasters, acute and chronic health effects and prevention strategies are also discussed.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction - Classification of technological disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 2. Toxicological aspects of disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 3. Toxicological aspects of disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 4. Air pollution - The Great London Smog - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 5. Toxicological aspects of mineral oil - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 6. Oil disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 7. Chemical industrial disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 8. Chemical industrial disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 9. Agricultural disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 10. Disasters in Hungary (River Tisza, Nagytétény, Red Sludge) - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 11. Nuclear disasters - Szabó István (Népeg)
  • 12. Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - Szabó István (Népeg)

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

PPT-presentations (Neptun)

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Absences should not exceed 15% of lectures and practicals (2x45 min). Otherwise signature of grade book is denied.

Mid-term exams

Examination: written test

Making up for missed classes

based on individual consideration

Exam topics/questions

Neptun

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars