Hygiena, 2019 (vol. 64), issue 1

What in fact is in question in the public health service?

Ivan Kučera

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):3-4 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1658  

Long-term change in the noise level of road pavements and their assessment

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...

Principles of optimal antisclerotic nutrition

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...

The current epidemiological situation of measles in Europe

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,...

Public health impact of substance use

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...

Accident in the drinking water supply of Nová Ves and its investigation

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...

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

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...

Legal actualities during 1.10.2018–15.1.2019

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):35-36  

Regional health promotion centres

Marie Nejedlá

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):36-37  

New committee of the Society of Hygiene and Community Medicine
of the Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně elected

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):37  

Report on the activities of the Society of Hygiene and Community Medicine over the period 2014–2018

Pavel Dlouhý

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):37-38  

Personal anniversary of professor Holčík

Vladimír Valenta

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):39  

Prof. Jaroslav Blahoš, M.D.,D.Sc. has passed away

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):40  

In memory of PhMr. Hana Čulíková

Magda Zimová

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):40  

Jiří Rytíř, M.D., has passed away

Milan Tuček

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):40  

Changes in the composition and concentrations of particulate matter at a background measuring station

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):20  

Cigarette butts – a small but hazardous waste

Eva Králíková

Hygiena 2019, 64(1):20