Hygiena 2019, 64(1):31-34 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1649

Healthy aging in the industrial environment – launch of the research project

Hana Šlachtová¹, Dagmar Skýbová¹, Andrea Dalecká¹, Vera jandačková^1,2, Hana Tomášková¹, Vítězslav Jiřík¹, Daniel Jandačka², Steriani Elavsky², Jan Topinka³, Jiří Rubeš⁴, Radim Šrám¹

¹ Ostravská univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Centrum epidemiologického výzkumu, Ostrava, Česká republika

² Ostravská univerzita, Pedagogická fakulta, Centrum diagnostiky lidského pohybu, Ostrava, Česká republika

³ Ústav experimentální medicíny AV ČR, v. v. i., Praha, Česká republika

⁴ Výzkumný ústav veterinárního lékařství, v. v. i., Brno, Česká republika

Aging of the European population warrants efforts to increase the quality of life in older age and to answer questions about the extent to which differences in health status are determined by the quality of the environment and other unchangeable factors, and the extent to which healthy aging can be improved by one's own actions. This brief report provides preliminary information on the content and methodology of the 5-year project HAIE that has been launched in the year 2018 and that attempts to find answers to these questions. The HAIE (Healthy Aging in the Industrial Environment) project is a project of the Excellent research within the framework of the Research and Development for Innovations Operational Programme of the Czech Ministry of Education Youth and Sports. Four research institutes are involved in the project - the Centre for Epidemiological Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava (principal investigator); Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Veterinary Research Institute, v. v. i., and the Human Motion Diagnostic Centre, Pedagogical Faculty, University of Ostrava.

Keywords: healthy ageing, air pollution, genetic damage, reprotoxicity, lifestyle, risk perception

Published: February 28, 2019  Show citation