Hygiena, 2018 (vol. 63), issue 1

A touch of politics

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):3-4 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1580  

Tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and marijuana abuse in secondary school pupils in the Ústí Region

Ladislav Pyšný, Jana Pyšná, Dominika Petrů, David Cihlář, Karol Görner

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):5-9 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1553  

Assessed is tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and marijuana abuse by students of "standard secondary schools" of the Ústí Region. The Ústí Region is specific in a range of factors which could support increased intake of these drugs, and results of some studies bring only data covering the whole republic. For data collection were used questions from the European Model Questionnaire (EMQ), focused on this issue. The survey was carried out at 43 secondary schools, where in there have been evaluated 3,558 questionnaires, 1,809 from boys and 1,749 from girls. Our results describe the high intake of selected drugs in high school boys and girls difference...

Glycol ethers: presumed odorous substances emitted during the process of cataphoresis

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.

Ventilation in schools

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,...

Risk of legionellosis from cooling towers

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....

Prevention of iodine deficiency in the Czech Republic

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...

Legal actualities during 16.10.2017–25.2.2018

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):28-29  

Europe's anniversary as a polio-free region

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):9  

František Kotěšovec, M.D. has passed away

Jan Ševčík

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):30  

In memory of Prof. Olga Hníková, M.D., Ph.D.

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):30  

Salt and Public Health

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Hygiena 2018, 63(1):31  

František Kotěšovec, M.D. against the smoking habit

František Kotěšovec

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):31  

Report on the editing of the Journal Hygiena in 2017

Jaroslav Kříž, Věra Kernová, Jana Veselá

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):32  

In the past year public health officers have closed down 8 catering service facilities in central Bohemia

Dana Šalamunová

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):32  

Factors influencing cardiovascular mortality in the Czech Republic

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Hygiena 2018, 63(1):17  

Cardiovascular consequences of night-time noise

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Hygiena 2018, 63(1):21  

Further innovations in tobacco products

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2018, 63(1):29