Hygiena, 2020 (vol. 65), issue 1

Countering biological weapons and bioterrorism – a permanent public health task

Cyril Klement

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):3-4 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1743  

Health and GIS: The present situation and future options in the Czech Republic

Jana Loosová, Jiří Šmída, Vladimír Valenta, Ondřej Kovář

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):5-9 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1739  

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are currently used in a number of disciplines as effective methods of managing, analyzing, sharing and visualizing geographic data. At Regional Public Health Authorities in the Czech Republic, however, this positive trend in digitalisation of their work does not progress as intensively as in other disciplines. According to the probe, there are two objective reasons. Technical problems with the lack of appropriate technical equipment and, above all, shortcomings of personnel. Education belonging to the necessary measures to raise awareness of the advantages and opportunities of implementation of GIS methods was supported...

Alcohol's harms to others

Elizabeth Nováková, Viktor Mravčík

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):10-16 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1730  

Aims: Alcohol consumption affects not only its user but also his social environment. Consequences for the drinker are well mapped, but less attention is paid to the affected environment. Harm made to it is known as alcohol's harm(s) to others (AHTO). The AHTO approach includes a wide spectrum of harms at the individual level, in the family system, community and society. This is to provide an overview of the AHTO including typology, types of research and classification, AHTO makers, groups at higher risk and protective factors. Methods: This thesis is a review. To meet the aims, a systematic research of bibliographic databases was made. Also other information...

Minimisation of risk of exposure to mercury

Katarína Kromerová, Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):17-21 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1731  

Mercury is found in the environment due to human activities or natural processes. Due to long-range atmospheric transport capacity, biotransformation into organic forms, bioaccumulation and biomagnification in the food chain in combination with high toxicity, mercury has become a priority environmental contaminant, which the World Health Organization has identified as one of the ten most dangerous chemicals for public health. Mercury exposures in developed countries show significant economic costs, especially in the form of economic productivity losses. Studies have also highlighted the significant economic benefits of preventing mercury pollution...

Development of the intestinal microbiome - importance for prevention and therapy

Igo Kajaba, Aida Kajabová, Manon Genčíková, Branislav Genčík, Nora Lovászová, Vladimír Bencko, Jaroslav Kříž, Bohumil Turek, Petr Šíma, Pavel Dlouhý, Jan Ševčík

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):22-26 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1735  

Presented is a review of knowledge about the development of the microbiome from birth with regard to its genetic predisposition to 2 basic factors - the way of birth and nutrition of the newborn. The close relationship of microbial development to the intestinal immune system is shown. Attention is drawn to the importance of eumicrobiosis and its preventive function in the course of metabolic processes and the prevalence of non-contagiouse diseases. A particularly serious risk of dysmicrobiosis, which is currently considered to be one of the major elements in the etiopathogenesis of many so-called civilization linked diseases, is underlined. The importance...

E-detective story: classic e-cigarettes were not the cause

Eva Králíková

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):27-28 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1747  

Instead of classic e-cigarettes, the lung injury epidemic in the USA is more clearly associated with vaping of cannabinoid oily substances namely those containing vitamin E acetate.

Legal actualities during 16.10.2019 – 20.1.2020

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):29-30  

Helena Šebáková – 70 years

kolektiv zaměstnanců

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):33  

Doc. MUDr. Otakar Klein, CSc. has passed away

Vladimír Bencko

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):34  

Regional Health Promotion Centres in 2019

Marie Nejedlá

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):34-35  

Amendment of the Public Health Protection Act

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):36  

New secretary of the Hygiena editorial board

Jana Veselá

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):36  

Report on the editing of Hygiena in 2019

Jaroslav Kříž, Věra Kernová, Jana Veselá

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):36  

Is the declared 95% safety of electronic cigarettes substantiated and true?

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):9  

Should the legal tobacco age-of-sale be increased to 21 years?

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):16  

IQOS is toxic to the human respiratory system

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):21  

Global data on tobacco use

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):28  

Workplace stress and the training of people in charge

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):30  

Report of the US Surgeon General on smoking cessation in 2020

Eva Králíková

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):31  

Accidental intoxication by outdoor plants

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):31  

Safe water, sanitation and hygiene, problems in the WHO European region

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Hygiena 2020, 65(1):32  

Trihalomethanes in drinking water and urinary bladder cancer

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2020, 65(1):32