Hygiena, 2022 (vol. 67), issue 3

Activities of regional public health authorities are based and must be based not only on legislation but mainly on a broader vision of public health

Jana Loosová

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):91 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1820  

Health risks from non-potable use of recycled water in buildings. Part 1 – Rainwater

František Kožíšek, Sylva Rödlová, Jaroslav Šašek, Šárka Bobková, Dana Baudišová, Hana Jeligová

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):92-100 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1818  

This paper responds to a quickly growing trend of rainwater use in buildings and draws attention to related health risks and legislative gaps in its regulation. The key pathogens that may occur in rainwater in the Czech Republic are described, as well as, chemical contaminants from roofs and collection surfaces. The main ways of non-potable use of rainwater in buildings are also listed including the related exposure pathways of infections and technical measures available for reduction of the health risks.

The influence of folic acid on the aetiology of selected diseases

Gabriela Škrečková, Kvetoslava Rimárová, Peter Takáč

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):101-106 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1810  

In the article we offer an overview of the influence of folate and folic acid on the aetiology of selected diseases, as well as the current state of food fortification in Slovakia and countries with the largest share of fortified food production. Folate and its synthesized form of folic acid are an important component of a healthy, balanced diet. Folate plays an important role in cell metabolism, DNA, RNA and protein synthesis. Folate intake is important for the prophylaxis of some diseases. It plays an important role in limiting the prevalence of congenital neural tube deformities, hyperhomocysteinaemia, certain types of cancer or in alleviating the...

Nutrition and food literacy assessment

Kamila Jančeková, Martin Krobot, Zlata Kapounová, Veronika Spáčilová, Eliška Selinger, Anna Ouřadová, Jan Gojda

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):107-113 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1817  

Measuring nutrition literacy should be an important tool to improve nutrition literacy and subsequently dietary behaviour at the population level, but also to identify individuals with limited nutrition literacy with the potential to define personalised interventions. In addition, a nutrition literacy assessment tool may allow standardisation of scientific outcomes of population-based nutritional behaviour intervention programmes. However, no such tool currently exists in the Czech Republic. This paper sum- marizes the existing tools for assessing nutrition or food literacy from abroad and introduces the intention to develop a suitable tool applicable...

Very low nicotine cigarettes: will they really lower the risk?

Eva Králíková

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):114-115 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1815  

When smoking cigarettes, smoke and combustion products are especially harmful to health. Surprisingly, towards the end of 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved very low nicotine filtered cigarettes as a Modified Risk Tobacco Product. Will the risk of developing and maintaining addiction or health risk be reduced?

Will Canada be first again?

Eva Králíková

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):116-117 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1816  

After Canada was the first country in the world to introduce pictorial warnings on cigarette packs, they now discuss a proposal to place a warning on each individual cigarette as well.

Legal actualities during 1.5.2022–31.7.2022

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):118  

MUDr. Růžena Kubínová – 75 years

Kolektiv Ústředí monitoringu SZÚ

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):119  

What is ORCID and why will Hygiena use it

Redakce

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):120  

WHO’s interim report on the war in Ukraine

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):120  

Not only classic but also electronic cigarettes increase the risk of erectile dysfunction

Drahoslava Hrubá

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):100  

Children’s health and indoor air quality at Central European schools

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):106  

Asbestos in the Czech Republic

Jaroslav Kříž

Hygiena 2022, 67(3):117