Syllabus
Lectures:
1. History of hygiene. Hygiene, a preventive medicine subject with the goal of improving the quality of human life
2. Environment and human health. Outdoor air pollution – the main pollutants, their sources and adverse health effects. Types of smog.
3. Indoor air pollution – the main pollutants, their sources and adverse health effects.
4. Water and health. Hygiene of nutrition. Dietary guidelines. Health hazards - food safety.
5. General epidemiology. Communicable diseases –types of infection, process of spread of infection, transmission.
6. Principles of prevention. Vaccination. Active and passive immunization. Hospital-acquired infections
7. Travel medicine - selected chapters.
Annotation
The course introduces students to the basics of hygiene and epidemiology. Emphasis is placed on hygiene issues in health care facilities and the prevention of nosocomial infections and the importance of immunization in prevention.