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Cigarette butts – a small but hazardous wasteREVIEWS
Eva Králíková
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):20 
Changes in the composition and concentrations of particulate matter at a background measuring stationREVIEWS
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):20
What in fact is in question in the public health service?EDITORIAL
Ivan Kučera
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):3-4 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1658
Legal actualities during 1.10.2018–15.1.2019SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):35-36
Healthy aging in the industrial environment – launch of the research projectSHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Hana Šlachtová, Dagmar Skýbová, Andrea Dalecká, Vera jandačková, Hana Tomášková, Vítězslav Jiřík, Daniel Jandačka, Steriani Elavsky, Jan Topinka, Jiří Rubeš, Radim Šrám
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):31-34 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1649
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...
Accident in the drinking water supply of Nová Ves and its investigationREPORT FROM PRACTICE
Kamila Podráská, Libuše Polanská, František Kožíšek, Petr Pumann, Daniel Krsek
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):27-30 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1707
The paper describes a water quality incident in a small public water supply in Central Bohemia in the summer of 2017. People living in one part of the village consisting of about 40 recently built family houses experienced a short supply break (due to a blackout) and afterwards they received green-coloured tap water (due to algae) and later repeatedly microbiologically contaminated water (E. coli and coliforms). It might have resulted in about 20 illnesses, but medically confirmed was only one case of a child hospitalized. Water was banned to drink by the Public Health Authority for about a month. The water supply operator could not - in spite...
Public health impact of substance useREVIEW PAPERS
Viktor Mravčík, Pavla Chomynová, Kateřina Grohmannová
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):21-26 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1703
The paper focuses on the public health impact of substance use and factors related to their regulation, as well as on the contribution of the use of addictive substances (tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs) to the overall health burden. Health and social harms of different addictive substances are compared. Examples of significant changes in the population health associated with addictive substances are presented. Exposure to addictive substances in the context of other adverse socio-economic factors is a significant determinant of health, and can dramatically reduce life expectancy even in developed countries. Different addictive substances are associated...
The current epidemiological situation of measles in EuropeREVIEW PAPERS
Tomáš Tkadlec, Jana Vlčková, Kateřina Azeem, Simona Zatloukalová, Ondřej Holý, Dagmar Horáková, Helena Kollárová
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):16-20 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1638
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. It is a worldwide spread disease occurring especially in countries with a low vaccination level, that means developing countries in particular, from which it can be spread further. In developed countries cases of measles are mostly imported; an equally important group of infections, however, is the circulation of the virus in specific social groups rejecting vaccination (e.g.religious reasons, as a result of disinformation, consequence of an alternative lifestyle). In recent years, the incidence of measles is increasing in Europe, especially in Ukraine, Romania, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain,...
Principles of optimal antisclerotic nutritionREVIEW PAPERS
Igo Kajaba, Manon Genčíková, Ladislav Staruch, Eva Hybenová, Vladimír Bencko, Jan Ševčík, Petr Šíma, Bohumil Turek
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):10-15 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1706
The author's team from the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic presents an overview of the preventive role of selected nutritional factors and foods in antisclerotic nutrition. Attention is also drawn to the nutrition risk components involved in the initiation of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. The results of 2 dietary tests in subjects with primary combined hyperlipoproteinemia are presented. In the first test were administered PUFA n-3 in the amount of 2.0 g/day 3 times in a week (in the form of mackerel in the amount of 150 g/day). Therein a total of 37 subjects (average age 39.3 years) underwent testing after 42 days. Significant reductions...
Long-term change in the noise level of road pavements and their assessmentORIGINAL ARTICLES
Vítězslav Křivánek, Petra Marková, Karel Effenberger
Hygiena 2019, 64(1):5-9 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1612
Reduction of noise emission into the environment is a priority of transport policies of individual countries, as that of well as the European Union. Road traffic noise has a dominant share in the total noise production and is influenced by traffic volume, traffic composition, traffic flow speed, as well as the technical condition of the road pavement, i.e. the condition of its wearing course. The installation of low-noise wearing courses on road pavements is a very effective acoustic measure directly at the noise source. Based on the recommendation of the technical committee TC 227/WG5 of the European Committee for Standardisation CEN and on the results...
Thirty years of WHO Healthy CitiesNEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):148
A new WHO guideline on noiseNEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):147
Premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases can be reduced by 45%NEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):147
Vladimír Polanecký, MD, passed awayNEWS
Sylvie Kvášová, Jitka Částková
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):146
Central Bohemia public health officers are checking up on the abiding by the so-called anti-smoking lawNEWS
Jarmila Rážová
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):146
22th national conference Nutrition and health in TepliceNEWS
Jan Ševčík, Pavel Dlouhý, Bohumil Turek, Petr Šíma, Igo Kajaba
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):145
New director of the National Institute of Public HealthNEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):145
Mortality in Ostrava minersREVIEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):143
Smoking and pregnancyREVIEWS
Drahoslava Hrubá
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):139
Analogous effect of palm and olive oil on blood lipidsREVIEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):134
Great stress can increase the risk of cancerREVIEWS
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):128
New pieces of knowledge on selenium intake and population healthREVIEWS
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Hygiena 2018, 63(4):121
Legal actualities during 1.7.2018–30.9.2018SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):144
Subjective health self-assessment in students of selected universitiesORIGINAL ARTICLES
Kristina Somerlíková, Jakub Salaba
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):129-134 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1704
A healthy population means a healthy workforce and therefore it is important pay attention to the development of the health status of the population and then respond to the information found. The subjective evaluation of health evolves from one's approach to lifestyle or the actual state of mental and physical well-being. The aim of the questionnaire survey was to find out, among other things, the actual subjective state of health in students of selected universities. Respondents consider their state of health to be good or very good in 83% of cases, less than 2% of students perceive their health state to be bad or very bad. Students' health problems...
Ergonomy and the prevention of health disordersEDITORIAL
Karol Hatiar
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):115 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1642
The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Max von Pettenkofer (1818-1901) of the founder of our discipline - the "high priest" of hygieneREVIEW PAPERS
Vladimír Bencko, Otakar Klein
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):140-143 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1621
The rapid development of the industrial society in the 19th century was accompanied, among other things, by rapid population growth in urban centers, excessive pollution of waterways and air. Nowadays the rapidly growing urban agglomerations have often been overwhelmed by epidemics of typhoid fever and cholera. Max von Pettenkofer, in 1865, lectures on Hygiene at the Ludwig-Maxmilian's University of Munich, and in 1879 he founded the Hygiene Institute at the Medical Faculty in Munich. Since the second half of the 19th century, Max von Pettenkofer has been pushing for Munich to build a central sewer drainage and a system for safe drinking water that...
Perception of nutrition education by the Czech population of 40+ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Věra Olišarová, Valérie Tóthová, Sylva Bártlová, Ivana Chloubová, Helena Michálková, Lenka Šedová, Kristýna Toumová, Marie Trešlová
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):135-139 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1637
Nutrition plays an important role in the origin and development of noncommunicable diseases. The influencing of the origin of these diseases as well as the effectiveness of the healing process in relation to eating habits has been proven. The goal of this article consists in showing the present state of education in nutrition in view of the health worker and the population of 40+ and whether patients consider this information to be useful. In order to determine the status and description of current nutrition education, the partial data obtained from the questionnaire survey were used. The investigation took place all over the Czech Republic during...
Evaluation of the occupational stress of nurses working in central and operating theater sterilization unitsORIGINAL ARTICLES
Magda Taliánová, Veronika Sluková
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):122-128 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1636
The work of nurses working in central and operation theater sterilization units has an irreplaceable role in the preparation of sterile medical devices used in health care. Nurses working in this section are exposed to a number of risk factors that can affect them both physically and mentally. The aim of the research was to find out how nurses working in the central and suction sterilization sections subjectively assess their physical and mental working environment and their workload. It has been found that the working environment, both in terms of personnel security and microclimatic conditions, is better rated by nurses working in operation theater...
Respiratory diseases in children in the Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic) in comparison with results of the national monitoringORIGINAL ARTICLES
Jana Kratěnová, Kristýna Žejglicová, Vladimíra Puklová
Hygiena 2018, 63(4):116-121 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1633
In 2015 a prevalence study of respiratory diseases in children in the Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic) was carried out in 18 towns by the National Institute of Public Health in cooperation with 73 GPs for children and adolescents. The sample consisted of 7519 children aged 5, 9, 13 and 17 years. The prevalence of all medically diagnosed allergic diseases and asthma was 29.5% and 11.2% respectively. The results were compared with nationwide monitoring of allergies and respiratory diseases in 2016. The probability of prevalence of allergy and asthma presented by Odds Ratio (OR) was significantly higher in children in the Moravian-Silesian Region...
The Prague Public Health Office is accessible by bicycleNEWS
Zbyněk Boublík
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):112
The National Technical Library is offering academic institutions an extraordinary collection of e-books from foreign publishersNEWS
Pavel Hortig
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):111
Issued has been a technical standard concerning on-site non-potable water systems for the use of rainwaterNEWS
František Kožíšek
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):110-111
Prof. Drahoslava Hrubá, M.D., Ph.D.NEWS
Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):110
Jaroslav Vrchlický: Oh, my cigarette!REVIEWS
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):109
Anti-smoking campaigns may cause stigmatisationREVIEWS
Drahoslava Hrubá
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):109
The original inventor of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) is Philip MorrisREVIEWS
Drahoslava Hrubá
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):108
FDA´s new tobacco strategyREVIEWS
Drahoslava Hrubá
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):88
Czechoslovakia in 1918NEWS
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):88
Legal actualities during 11. 5. 2018 – 30. 6. 2018SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):107
Viewing public health a bit from the outside and a bit from the insideEDITORIAL
Michal Anděl
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1619
Is it possible to reduce occupational exposure of nurses to cytotoxic drugs?REPORT FROM PRACTICE
Šárka Kozáková, Lenka Doležalová
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):105-106 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1626
Long-term routine occupational exposure of health care workers handling cytotoxic drugs (CDs) poses a risk due to the known hazardous (genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic) properties of these agents. The safety rules applicable to the preparation of CDs in the Czech Republic are enshrined in legislation. Aseptic preparation of CDs should be conducted in a pharmacy, in the controlled zone, in a negative pressure vertical laminar flow hood, and while wearing chemoprotective gloves. However, no safety rules for healthcare workers handling CDs outside the pharmacy, e.g. nurses or orderlies, are enshrined in legislation. In most healthcare settings,...
Selected environmental risk factors of inflammatory bowel diseasesREVIEW PAPERS
Jana Diabelková
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):99-104 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1585
The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease has increased in recent years, but the exact cause of the disease is not yet clear and therefore we do not know of any reliable way of prevention. Described is current knowledge about the role and influence of selected risk factors related to the development, relapse and progression of inflammatory bowel disease. More specifically, it deals with potential risk factors such as hygiene, smoking, environment, sanitation, industrialization and socio-economic status, air pollution, water, but also the role of intestinal microbioma, infections, antibiotic use, and stress and sleep. Highlighted is the need to clarify...
Personalities credited for the progress of medical hygiene in the Czech RepublicREVIEW PAPERS
Jaroslav Kříž, Vladimír Bencko
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):89-98 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1622
Personalities who created essential advancement of hygiene as a medical discipline in the Czech Republic are presented in the article. Brief curricula of them and especially their professional focus are a cogent illustration of medical hygiene history and development of knowledge, which gradually became the cornerstone of health protection and promotion.
Current human biomonitoring - Iodine status in Czech populationORIGINAL ARTICLES
Lenka Hanzlíková, Lenka Sochorová, Lucie Kašparová, Alena Fialová, Růžena Kubínová, Milena Černá
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):84-88 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1624
Iodine is one of the essential elements and its deficiency has significant health consequences. The optimum urinary iodine level is in range 100-199 µg/L, median value from 100 to 299 µg/L, were considered satisfactory and characterize the population without iodine deficiency, as set by the World Health Organization. As part of biological monitoring, iodine was monitored in 2015 in the adult population (blood donors, N = 234) and 2016 in the children population (5 and 9 years, N = 400). The optimum urinary iodine level (100-199 µg/L) was found in 42% of study subjects (adult). 34% of study subjects had lower urinary iodine levels. The...
Trans-epidermal absorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsORIGINAL ARTICLES
Andrea Málková, Lenka Kotingová, Roman Kanďár, Martina Špryncová, Lenka Andrlová, Aleš Bezrouk, Lenka Borská, Renata Kohlerová, Zdeněk Fiala
Hygiena 2018, 63(3):76-83 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1700
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of significant contaminants in the occupational and living environment. In addition to the inhalation route of exposure in the occupational environment, there is also significant the dermal route of exposure. Existing experimental data on the intensity and rate of penetration of these substances into systemic circulation are still limited. The presented paper is focused on methodological and interpretative issues of trans-epidermal absorption of PAHs in vitro. In this study, we assessed the intensity (Flux) and rate (Lag time) of penetration of naphthalene, phenanthrene, pyrene and benzo[a]pyrene...
Publicity as part of public health servicesEDITORIAL
Zbyněk Boublík
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):35 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1617
Open space workplace - current issues in terms of physical factors of the work enviromentREVIEW PAPERS
Oľga Šušoliaková, Pavla Pechová, Zuzana Mathauserová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):54-59 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1605
Well-being in the workplace is a prerequisite for the maximum performance of workers. Currently, the practice notes a higher number of open space type workplaces which are often in modern buildings with a glass envelope. In spite of the discussed benefits of this workplace arrangement, such as better teamwork and better communication between employees, problems and complaints are reported about the quality of the indoor environment from such administrative buildings. Of the physical factors of the working environment, microclimate, poor lighting, interference with noise and poor quality of air are the main factors which can cause deterioration of the...
Selected plant toxins in honey and their health effectsREVIEW PAPERS
Katarína Kromerová, Vladimír Bencko
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):50-53 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1602
There is a lot of information about the nutritional and medicinal properties of honey. However, honey may contain compounds that can lead to toxicity. Plant toxins or phytotoxins are secondary plant metabolites that show acute or chronic toxicity or have anti-nutritional effects. Feeding bees on the flowers of toxic plants can result in the contamination of honey. The most important plant toxins in honey are pyrolizidine alkaloids and gryanotoxins (GTX).
Analysis of work and problems in the provision of smoking cessation in counseling centers for smoking cessation at the Regional Public Health Authorities in the Slovak republicORIGINAL ARTICLES
Eva Onačillová, Viola Vargová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):45-49 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1611
Introduction: Non-smoking promotion including assistance in quitting, should be provided by qualified health professionals. The aim of the research was to find a level of effectiveness of the implementation of non-smoking promotion in counseling centers for smoking cessation at the Regional Public Health Authorities (RPHA). Material and Methods: Data were obtained from the representatives of the advisory smoking cessation centers (ASC) at RPHA contacted by email request. The request was sent to all 34 ASC in the Slovak Republic, of which 94.1% (n = 32) responded. Data were collected from March 2013 until January 2014. Results: 93.6% of ASC use the...
Air quality measurement in kindergartensORIGINAL ARTICLES
Bohumil Kotlík, Lenka Pekařová, Helena Kazmarová, Miroslava Mikešová, Věra Vrbíková, Ladislava Matějů, Zdeňka Vandasová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):36-44 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1610
Indoor air quality is always influenced by a number of sources of pollution and can be improved by controlling (minimizing the impact) these sources and by efficient ventilation. An important factor influencing the interior is also the outdoor air, which can be contaminated by nearby transport or industrial sources. Studies conducted between 2015 and 2016 focused on describing the environment of a specific group - children attending kindergartens. The intention was to update and expand information on the occurrence of substances in the indoor environment of kindergartens, their trends, existing resources, and problems and cooperative influences. A...
Legal actualities during 26.2.2018–10.5.2018SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):60
Highly infectious disease – exercise at the University hospital Olomouc 2017Abstracts of papers delivered#5. Miscellanea
Jarmila Kohoutová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):69 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0018
Decolonisation for preventing infection at site of surgical interventionsAbstracts of papers delivered#5. Miscellanea
Lenka Hobzová, Dana Vaculíková
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):69 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0017
Strategy of preventing health care associated infections in a private company Svet zdravia, a.s.Abstracts of papers delivered#5. Miscellanea
Jana Skalová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):68 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0016
EnCompass – high touch objects cleaning efficacy monitoring program. Three-year experience from Slovak hospitalsAbstracts of papers delivered#4. Problems of clean-up and disinfection from point of view of critical points and valid legislation
Matúš Lichvár
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):68 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0015
The specifics of cleaning in the health care sectorAbstracts of papers delivered#4. Problems of clean-up and disinfection from point of view of critical points and valid legislation
Alice Žertová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):67-68 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0014
Application of UVC radiation for fnal disinfection of a patient´s ward with Clostridium difficileAbstracts of papers delivered#4. Problems of clean-up and disinfection from point of view of critical points and valid legislation
Ivanka Matoušková
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):67 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0013
SMS – effective tool in the prevention of nosocomial infectionsAbstracts of papers delivered#4. Problems of clean-up and disinfection from point of view of critical points and valid legislation
Jan Skříšovský
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):67 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0012
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) – new trends and optionsAbstracts of papers delivered#3. Novel approaches to invasive inputs
Alžběta Svobodová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):66-67 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0011
The efficacy claim of disinfectants being registered as a health care product should be in accordance with the manufacturer´s instruction for useAbstracts of papers delivered#2. Reservoirs of infections agents in healthcare facilities
Hana Lišková
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):66 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0010
Microbial air contamination in the operating roomAbstracts of papers delivered#2. Reservoirs of infections agents in healthcare facilities
Ivanka Matoušková
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):66 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0009
The role of airborne contamination in the transmission of health care associated infectionsAbstracts of papers delivered#2. Reservoirs of infections agents in healthcare facilities
Bohdana Rezková
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0008
Cronobacter spp. – a causative agent of infections connected with health careAbstracts of papers delivered#2. Reservoirs of infections agents in healthcare facilities
Ondřej Holý, Jana Petrželová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0007
Significance of horizontal transfer of genetic information for the rise of resistence to antibioticsAbstracts of papers delivered#2. Reservoirs of infections agents in healthcare facilities
Vladimír Bencko, Petr Šíma
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):64-65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0006
News in vaccination of risk groups of patientsAbstracts of papers delivered#1. Vaccination of healthcare personnel and under-risk patient groups
Iva Šípová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):64 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0005
Infuenza vaccination in health care workers in the Czech Republic – struggle with indifferenceAbstracts of papers delivered#1. Vaccination of healthcare personnel and under-risk patient groups
Kristýna Herrmannová, Hana Roháčová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):64 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0004
Experience with health care personnel vaccination in České Budějovice Hospital, JSCAbstracts of papers delivered#1. Vaccination of healthcare personnel and under-risk patient groups
Iva Šípová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):63-64 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0003
Vaccination against HBV in occupational health careAbstracts of papers delivered#1. Vaccination of healthcare personnel and under-risk patient groups
Markéta Petrovová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):63 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0002
Vaccination of health care workersAbstracts of papers delivered#1. Vaccination of healthcare personnel and under-risk patient groups
Renata Ciupek
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):62-63 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0001
25th anniversary of the initiation of conferences on hospital hygiene and epidemiology in the Czech RepublicCONFERENCE COMMUNICATIONS
Vladimír Bencko
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):61-62 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1616
Long-term health after-effects of methanol poisoningREVIEWS
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):53
WHO on the relation of alcohol and cancerREVIEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):59
European WHO on measlesNEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):72
The Silesian Meeting on Preventive Medicine 2018 ConferenceNEWS
Renáta Brablcová
Hygiena 2018, 63(2):70-72
In memory of Prof. Olga Hníková, M.D., Ph.D.NEWS
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):30
František Kotěšovec, M.D. has passed awayNEWS
Jan Ševčík
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):30
František Kotěšovec, M.D. against the smoking habitNEWS
František Kotěšovec
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):31
Salt and Public HealthNEWS
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Hygiena 2018, 63(1):31
In the past year public health officers have closed down 8 catering service facilities in central BohemiaNEWS
Dana Šalamunová
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):32
Report on the editing of the Journal Hygiena in 2017NEWS
Jaroslav Kříž, Věra Kernová, Jana Veselá
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):32
Europe's anniversary as a polio-free regionNEWS
Redakce
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):9
Further innovations in tobacco productsREVIEWS
Drahoslava Hrubá
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):29
Cardiovascular consequences of night-time noiseREVIEWS
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Hygiena 2018, 63(1):21
Factors influencing cardiovascular mortality in the Czech RepublicREVIEWS
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Hygiena 2018, 63(1):17
Legal actualities during 16.10.2017–25.2.2018SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):28-29
A touch of politicsEDITORIAL
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):3-4 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1580
Prevention of iodine deficiency in the Czech RepublicSHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Marie Nejedlá
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):25-27 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1582
The Czech Republic suffers from a lack in iodine of natural resources and the health consequences of iodine deficiency have occurred here a long time ago. Kitchen salt began to be iodized in the mid-20th century and the problem with iodine was suppresed resolved. However, alarming results of examinations performed by the Institute of Endocrinology in Prague in the first half of the 1990´s showed a slight iodine deficiency in 50% of adults and a more serious deficiency in 12% of men and 21% of women, and in 7% of boys and 10% of girls. The Intersectoral Committee on Iodine Deficiency Solution was established in 1995 as an informal association of experts...
Risk of legionellosis from cooling towersREPORT FROM PRACTICE
Radim Mudra, Irena Martinková, Marie Fiedorová, Danuše Hanslíková
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):22-24 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1583
Between 2015 and 2016, workers from the Regional Public Health Authority of the Moravian Silesian Region (RPHA) examined legionella disease in three people working in industrial premises, which came into contact with hot water aerosol from showers and the aerosol of technological water of cooling towers. The team of authors deals with the demonstration of the connection the of disease with the contaminated matrix - the aerosol of hot water from the showers and aerosol of technological water of the cooling towers, concluding that the investigated diseases were caused by the contaminated technological water of the open circuits of the cooling towers....
Ventilation in schoolsREVIEW PAPERS
Oľga Šušoliaková, Zuzana Mathauserová
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):18-21 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1581
The quality of the indoor environment is an important factor affecting health, well-being and performance in children, adolescents and adults. The general population spends most of its time indoors and children and pupils are exposed to the effects of indoor factors in school and educational facilities. From a technical viewpoint large investments are made to decrease the energy requirements of school buildings in terms of improving air-tighteness, thus limiting natural ventilation with no alternative provision for ensuring adequate air exchange. This leads to a number of non-specific complaints such as daytime fatigue, eye irritation, poor concentration,...
Glycol ethers: presumed odorous substances emitted during the process of cataphoresisORIGINAL ARTICLES
Lenka Pekařová, Bohumil Kotlík, František Skácel
Hygiena 2018, 63(1):10-17 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1565
This article focuses on sampling and analysis of low-mass glycol ethers and their acetates, which are emitted during the process of cataphoresis. The initiative for measurements were complaints by residents living near to cataphoresis facilities of intermitent episodes of annoying odour, probably originating from the said facilities. Active and passive sampling was used. The negative impact of cataphoresis on the surrounding environment was confirmed.