Hygiena, 2019 (vol. 64), issue 3

How I got my Amerindian name

Vladimír Valenta

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):95 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1725  

Optimization of the protection of medical staff in working with open source ionizing radiation on PET/CT in the University Hospital Ostrava

Renáta Kohutová, Martin Havel, Vítězslav Jiřík, Hana Materová, Jana Golisová, Vojtěch Ullmann

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):96-104 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1710  

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the optimization of radiation protection related to work with open positron sources on the newly opened PET/CT department in the Clinic of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Ostrava (KNM FNO). Methods: We compared retrospectively the values from the personal dosimetry of employees, who participated on the PET/CT examinations over the time period from January 2014 to April 2018. For monitoring purposes there were used personal OSL dosimeters and finger TLD dosimeters. The results of personal dosimetry were processed by the dedicated service of VF Černá Hora. The construction of the premises was assessed...

Microbiological monitoring of laboratory mice environment in a barrier experimental facility

Tomáš Svoboda, Vladimír Špelina, Petr Petráš, Veronika Horová, Radek Šerý, Jana Vrkoslavová

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):105-111 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1720  

Aim: The health status of laboratory animals affects their suitability for research, therefore it is important that each facility with laboratory animals has its own program of animal quality control. The source of the infection, however, may not only be the laboratory animals, but also on infiltration agent from the outside environment. In the framework of the animal biosecurity concept, microbiological monitoring of the environment is carried out in many foreign animal facilities. The aim of our work was to evaluate how the above-mentioned microbiological monitoring of animal environment may contribute to the Animal Health Quality Control Program....

Options of primary prevention in the Army of the Czech Republic

Vladimír Pavlík, Václav Šafka, Petr Lašák, Miroslav Urban, Lucie Pravdová, Jana Fajfrová

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):112-116 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1715  

The author describes monitoring of the occurrence of non-infectious diseases of mass incidence and the implementation of preventive intervention programs through preventive medical examinations, controlled physical activity and continuous monitoring of diseased individuals in healthcare, spa and rehabilitation facilities. Emphasized are advantages of carrying out primary preventive measures in the Army of the Czech Republic.

Strategies and action plans for childhood obesity prevention

Jindřich Fiala, Pavlína Kaňová, Lucie Kotalová

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):117-127 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1727  

Child overweight and obesity represent a major problem, in terms of health consequences, especially later in adulthood, in terms of high prevalence, and the difficulty of the solution. Obesity is usually carried on adulthood, and prevention is therefore the best way to intervene. But it requires a very comprehensive solution, a really society-wide approach, with the involvement of politics, many resorts, and individual families. The aim of the article is to review current strategies and action plans or implementation plans, namely the European Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020, the National Action Plan on Obesity in the Health 2020 Program,...

Anti-noise measures at regional freight railway stations

Šimon Veleba

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):131-134 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1722  

Presented is the problem of noise reduction from the operation of rail brakes at the regional freight railway station in Havlíčkův Brod. According to the state health supervision, the hygienic limits of noise have been exceeded in the protected outdoor area of buildings at night. A major source of noise in the operation of rail brakes was the sound caused by the clamping of the wheels, giving rise to intense whistling. The operator has designed and implemented effective noise prevention measures, such as the installation of passive and active anti-noise measures. The implementation of these measures reduced noise from the use of rail brakes by more...

One hundred years of modern cremation in the Czech Republic

František Kožíšek

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):128-129 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1726  

The article reminds of the prohibition of cremation in Christian Europe and the struggle for the reintroduction of cremation at the turn of the 20th century. In the Czech lands, the prohibition of cremation was in force until 1919 when, on the initiative of J. Kvapil, a playwright and also a then deputy, one of the shortest acts ever was passed which allowed cremation. In the same year, the Liberec crematorium was the first to be put into operation in the Czech Republic. This year, it is exactly one hundred years since the reintroduction of cremation in the Czech Republic, which now accounts for around 80% of the annual total of funerals in this country.

Legal actualities during 21.4.2019 – 30.6.2019

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):130  

Health inspection on overseas excursion ships

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):127  

Bořivoj Havlík, PhD, DS has passed away

František Kožíšek

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):135  

Sixty-ninth meeting of the WHO European Regional Committee

Redakce

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):135  

Changes in the Editorial board of the Hygiena journal

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):136  

An attempt to decrease noise in intensive care units

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):104  

IQOS – a revolution or just a new trick of the tobacco industry?

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):111  

The hypothesis that electronic cigarettes can cause myocardial infarction is likely

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):129  

Too many young men are dying due to preventable diseases

Redakce

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):136  

The increasing of taxes on tobacco products prolongs life

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2019, 64(3):136