Hygiena, 2023 (vol. 68), issue 1

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the public health service

Zuzana Babišová

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):3 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1832  

Possibilities of objectifying noise of natural sources – rooks

Dana Potužníková, Pavel Junek, Tomáš Hellmuth, Aleš Jiráska, David Kresl, Eduard Ježo

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):4-9 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1829  

The aim of the consultant's report was to assess and analyze noise caused by the screams of rooks nesting in the trees of the greenery of a housing estate in Tábor. The results include a description and evaluation of the measurements, modeling of the immission acoustic situation and assessment of the health risks of noise (HRA) for the estimation of the noise burden on the residents of the urban housing estate and the school. The noise measurement was organized as a technical measurement in five sub-locations in a protected outdoor area and in one location inside the school. The measurement took place continuously with a continuous recording with a...

Tuberculosis in the light of current knowledge with a focus on the development of new vaccines

Jan Bělohlávek, Bohdana Rezková

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):10-18 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1831  

Tuberculosis is still a major global health problem. It affects over 10 million people each year and claims over 1.5 million victims. Although it is a disease that has been with mankind for thousands of years, it is only modern technology and the development of molecular biology that have enabled to reveal and explain the often unsuspected links and truths about the causative agent, the pathogenesis of the disease and its prevention. The current favourable epidemiological situation in developed countries is due to socio-economic changes and a general improvement in the health of the population rather than to the effect of the introduction of the BCG...

Human biomonitoring in the Czech Republic. Overview of the results obtained in the framework of the Population Health Monitoring System since 1994

Milena Černá, Andrea Krsková, Anna Pinkr Grafnetterová, Vladimíra Puklová, Alena Fialová, Marek Malý, Růžena Kubínová

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):19-33 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1827  

The article summarises the results of Czech Human Biomonitoring over a period of three decades. Human biomonitoring in the Czech Republic was commenced at the National Institute of Public Health, Prague, in 1994 as part of the Environmental Health Monitoring System and was later linked to European and worldwide professional activities in this area. During the course of this project the whole range of organic and inorganic xenobiotics and essential substances was monitored in the blood, urine and hair of the adult and child populations, in the breast milk of breastfeeding women and in other, less common matrices. The results have provided valuable long-term...

Unclear ethical and legal aspects of wastewater surveillance

František Kožíšek

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):34-35 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1830  

The COVID-19 epidemic and associated monitoring of its causative agent in wastewater has led to an exceptional development of wastewater surveillance. This surveillance no longer entails mere monitoring of viruses or other infectious agents, but comprises examination of a number of chemicals and metabolites from which the health condition, behaviour, and indeed the socioeconomic status of a monitored population can be discerned. This type of research, which by its nature deals with sensitive personal data or may stigmatise various population groups does not currently have a clear legal and ethical framework. The situation should be rapidly remedied.

Legal actualities during 1.12.2022 – 28.2.2023

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):36-37  

Is there a need to control the presence of legionella in indoor swimming pools and similar facilities?

Jaroslav Říha

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):38 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1836  

Health economics: disease-related losses

Klára Kučerová

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):9-37  

Methodology for the management of waste from health and veterinary care

Redakce

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):18  

The methodology is available from the journal's website: https://szu.cz/publikace/casopisy-v-szu/ahem/

Conference of global problems of public health 2023

Hana Tomášková, Rastislav Maďar

Hygiena 2023, 68(1):39-40