Hygiena, 2018 (vol. 63), issue 4

Ergonomy and the prevention of health disorders

Karol Hatiar

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):115 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1642  

Respiratory diseases in children in the Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic) in comparison with results of the national monitoring

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...

Evaluation of the occupational stress of nurses working in central and operating theater sterilization units

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...

Subjective health self-assessment in students of selected universities

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...

Perception of nutrition education by the Czech population of 40+

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...

The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Max von Pettenkofer (1818-1901) of the founder of our discipline - the "high priest" of hygiene

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...

Legal actualities during 1.7.2018–30.9.2018

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):144  

New director of the National Institute of Public Health

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):145  

22th national conference Nutrition and health in Teplice

Jan Ševčík, Pavel Dlouhý, Bohumil Turek, Petr Šíma, Igo Kajaba

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):145  

Central Bohemia public health officers are checking up on the abiding by the so-called anti-smoking law

Jarmila Rážová

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):146  

Vladimír Polanecký, MD, passed away

Sylvie Kvášová, Jitka Částková

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):146  

Premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases can be reduced by 45%

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):147  

A new WHO guideline on noise

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):147  

Thirty years of WHO Healthy Cities

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):148  

New pieces of knowledge on selenium intake and population health

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Hygiena 2018, 63(4):121  

Great stress can increase the risk of cancer

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):128  

Analogous effect of palm and olive oil on blood lipids

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):134  

Smoking and pregnancy

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):139  

Mortality in Ostrava miners

Redakce

Hygiena 2018, 63(4):143