Public Health 3 (Environmental Health)

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2023-2024

Topic

The aim of the course is the introduction into the environmental related health impacts and with a particular focus on the prevention.

Lectures

• 1. Ecology - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 2. Global warming – climate change - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 3. Outdoor air pollution - Dr. Szabó István
• 4. Indoor air pollution - Dr. Szabó István
• 5. Health impacts of water and soil - Dr. Varga Csaba
• 6. Contaminants of the anthropocene I. - Dr. Szabó István
• 7. Contaminants of the anthropocene II. - Dr. Szabó István

Practices

• 1. Water chemistry laboratory practical I.
• 2. Water chemistry laboratory practical II.
• 3. Water microbiology laboratory practical I.
• 4. Water microbiology laboratory practical II.
• 5. Physical exposures: Ionizing, non-ionizing radiations.
• 6. Radiation hygienic laboratory practical
• 7. Aerobiology.

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Educational material uploaded on PotePedia.

Notes

Recommended literature

Tompa (editor): Basic Principles of Public Health, ISBN: 978 963 9879 13 3

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Absence of 2x45 minutes from practical is acceptable. Above this the semester cannot be accepted.
In the 8th semester students have to do a final exam of Public Health, for it they need completed courses, which are the followings: The basics of Disease Prevention (OAABMA), General Epidemiology and Demography (OAAAED), Environmental Health (OAAKET), Preventive Medicine (OAPNEO), Detailed Epidemiology (OAKREP), Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Medicine (OAKMFO).

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

- Rely on material from lectures and seminars
- Educational material uploaded on PotePedia


Public Health 3 - topics for the oral exam
1. Ecology 1, Organization levels, Gaia theory, competition, niche-theory
2. Ecology 2, Population in biology, ecosystem, food-chain, diversity
3. Ecology 3, Interactions among populations, Lotka-Volterra model, population growth
4. Ecology 4, Human ecology, Special situation of the human population(s) in the ecosystem
5. Ecology 5. Meadows’ models, global problems, examples from the game theory
6. The etiological factors of global warming.
7. The direct health related effects of global warming.
8. The indirect health related effects of global warming.
9. The effect of climate change on biodiversity.
10. Socioeconomic effects - The future situation of food and water: Access and Safety.
11. Epidemiology of air pollution
12. Outdoor air pollution 1, Elements of air pollution. Atmospheric transmission.
13. Outdoor air pollution 2, The role of the ozone layer
14. Outdoor air pollution 3, Major pollutants
15. Outdoor air pollution 4, Residential solid fuel combustion
16. Outdoor air pollution 5, Smogs
17. Indoor air pollution 1, Major pollutants
18. Indoor air pollution 2, carbon-monoxide
19. Indoor air pollution 3, Biological pollutants
20. Indoor air pollution 4, Sick building syndrome and Building related illness
21. Water 1, Global water resources, water demands, water balance
22. Water 2, Water 2, Hydrological cycles
23. Water 3, Essential ions in drinking water
24. Water 4, Water pollutants/contaminants: classification, effects
25. Water 5, The Minamata disaese; arsenic in drinking water
26. Water 6, Secondary contaminants
27. Water 7, Water-borne epidemics, crucial infectious agents
28. Water 8, Water-soluble forms of iodine, effects; iodine in water and soil
29. Hazardous wastes, applied tests; Self-purification of waters
30. The scope of environmental-health. Man and the environment.
31. The IARC monograph programme.
32. Basics of ecotoxicology. Circulation of pollutants.
33. Stockholm convention and POP compounds
34. DDT
35. PCBs and dioxins
36. Asbestos
37. Glyphosate
38. Systemic insecticides and honeybees
39. Electromagnetic radiations and their health effects and prevention
40. Major polluting radioisotopes and their health effect
41. Aerobiology
42. Significance and measurement of UV radiation (laboratory practice)
43. Significance and measurement of radon exposure (laboratory practice)
44. Dose-response curves, thresholds
45. Water microbiology (laboratory practice): applied techniques and parameters used for evaluation
46. Water chemistry I (laboratory practice): nitrogen forms, hardness
47. Water chemistry II (laboratory practice): chlorine in water, pH

Examiners

• Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• Dr. Gyöngyi Zoltán
• Dr. Kiss István Zoltán
• Dr. Szabó István
• Dr. Szendi Katalin
• Dr. Varga Csaba

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• Dr. Gyöngyi Zoltán
• Dr. Szendi Katalin