Hygiena, 2023 (vol. 68), issue 2
EDITORIAL
Hospital epidemiology and hygiene – a field that interconnects all healthcare professionals
Bohdana Rezková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):43-44 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1840 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Estimation of noise indicator Lden based on indicator Ldn for road traffic noise in the Czech Republic
Zdeňka Vandasová, Tomáš Hellmuth, Alena Fialová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):45-49 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1837
Objective: Noise indicator Lden is used in Health Risk Assessment (HRA) to estimate noise effects using dose-effect relationships. Determination of its value is often impossible due to the unavailability of noise data in the evening. The aim of this paper is to propose estimation methods for noise indicator Lden based on Ldn indicator for road traffic in the conditions of the Czech Republic and to determine the uncertainties of this estimation. Methodology: A total of 217 individual 24-hour road traffic noise measurements were analysed. They were obtained within the framework of the activities of...
REVIEW PAPERS
Amendment to Government Regulation No. 272/2011 Coll., on the protection of health against the adverse effects of noise and vibrations
Dana Potužníková, Tomáš Hellmuth, David Kresl, Ondřej Fries
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):50-54 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1835
The aim of this article is the author's presentation of the most important adjustmens of Government Regulation No. 272/2011 Coll. for the professional public. This Government Regulation is going to come into force on 01/07/2023. The main purpose is to rationalize and simplify the relationship between two policies - environmental noise regulation and sustainable urban and transport infrastructure development. The changes concern in particular the area of traffic noise, i.e. noise from roads and railways. The current national framework is obsolete and it is causing absurd legal interpretations. The temporary legal exceptations have become rigid obligations...
The concept of One health: from theory to practice
Michaela Špačková, Radka Králová, Hana Orlíková, Ondřej Daniel
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):55-62 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1834
During the 21st century, many global health threats related to zoonoses, new or re-emerging infectious diseases, climate change and/or environmental sustainability have emerged. Achieving harmonized approaches to the detection and prevention of these health risks is often difficult because traditional approaches are usually determined by the boundaries of financially and legislatively separated scientific fields, such as more or less independently functioning human and veterinary medicine, agriculture, climatology, sociology, economics, etc. The boundaries between these individual fields however, should not be solid, and cooperation should be based...
Ještěd from a different angle
Jana Loosová, Miloš Hernych, Petr Mrázek, Jarmila Petříčková, Kateřina Forysová, Pavel Stupka
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):63-69 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1809
The paper aims to evaluate the population's exposure to radiofrequency radiation emitted by the DVB-T2 television transmitter and other sources located on the top of Jested from the perspective of public health protection. At the same time, the article includes history, description of these sources, and the procedure of the state administration representatives in exercising health surveillance in this area.
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Legal actualities during 1.3.2023 – 25.5.2023
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):70-71
CONFERENCE COMMUNICATIONS
29th International Conference on Hospital Epidemiology and Hygiene.
A word of introduction
Pavel Totušek
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):72-82 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1841
Abstracts of papers delivered.
Abstracts of papers delivered
1. The evolution of the epidemiological situation: the reflection and risks for patients and health professionals in the provision of health care, vaccines, vaccination strategies
The epidemiological situation of respiratory infections and the possibilities of preventive measures
Petr Pazdiora
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):72-73 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0106
Development of the Infectious Disease Information System and related applications after the covid-19
pandemic
Jakub Kubát
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):73 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0107
Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic
Mirka Džingozovová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):73 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0108
Health care worker injuries and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis in the Czech Republic
Anna Kubátová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):73-74 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0109
Diphtheria, current information, prevention
Kateřina Fabiánová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):74 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0110
2. Healthcare associated infections: ECDC definition, prevalence studies - point and continuous surveillance, standardisation of IT technologies in hospitals, legal and ethical aspects of health care
Healthcare associated infections
Petr Smejkal
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):74-75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0111
Point prevalence survey
Lucie Bareková, Dana Hedlová, Jan Kubele, Zuzana Halamíčková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0112
Surveillance of healthcare associated infections – software solution
Jarka Sokolová, Veronika Bučková, Vanesa Chebenová, Zuzana Škvarová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0113
How much can hand sanitizer moisturize the skin?
Hossein Gouhari, Tomasz Sadowski
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):75-76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0114
3. Microbiological monitoring of patients: antibiotic resistance surveillance, targeted intervention activities, collaboration between microbiologists, epidemiologists and clinical staff in hospitals
Antibiotics are endangered species
Barbora Macková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0115
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance
Vladislav Jakubů, Helena Žemličková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0116
Antibiotic resistance from the perspective of a clinical microbiologist
Linda Drábková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):76-77 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0117
MRSA – risk of introduction into healthcare facilities
Renáta Karpíšková, Kristýna Brodíková, Ivana Koláčková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):77 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0118
The microbiome as a biomarker in medicine
Martin Krsek
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):77 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0119
4. Strategies to prevent and control infectious complications in specific patient groups and complicatiions associated with specific diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
An outbreak investigation of sepses following surgery, a systematic approach
Jana Prattingerová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):78 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0120
Urinary Tract Infections – definition, prevention and therapy
Lenka Hobzová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):78 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0121
The importance of hand hygiene education in the prevention of infection transmission
Simona Saibertová, Natália Beharková, Andrea Menšíková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):78-79 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0122
5. Miscellaneous: hygienic operation and microbial monitoring of the environment in hygienically important hospital services (catering, laundry, sterilization, water management, etc.)
Efficient and hygienic cleaning methods
Jana Steinerová, Ondřej Trávník
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):79 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0123
Asepsis and antisepsis full of surprises
Jarmila Kohoutová
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):79 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0124
Legionellae and options for their eradication
Věra Melicherčíková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):79-80 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0125
Hygienic security and microbial monitoring of the water supply system in Vsetín Hospital
Jana Boledovičová, Ľubica Srbová, Jiří Petřek
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):80 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0126
Processing waste from catering operations
Michal Porhajm
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):80-81 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0127
Indoor air cleaning – comparison and testing of indoor air purifiers
David Hazafy
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):81 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0128
6. Posters
Protective equipment crisis mode during the covid-19 pandemic
Bohdana Rezková, Aleš Peřina
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):81-82 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0129
Antimicrobial films on objects and surfaces as prevention of healthcare ssociated infections in nursing
practice
Martin Krause
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):82 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0130
NEWS
Modified risk tobacco products in the USA
Eva Králíková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):54
News from the WHO Regional Office for Europe
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):62
Doc. RNDr. František Malíř, Ph.D. – 70th birthday
Vladimír Ostrý
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):84
REVIEWS
Ochratoxin A in groats blood sausages
Jaroslav Kříž
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):49
Effects of emissions from shooting in police firing ranges
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Hygiena 2023, 68(2):71
Cases of infection caused by Mycobacterium abscessus in patients after heart surgery in whom the infection may have been caused by a commercial water treatment system
Šárka Bobková
Hygiena 2023, 68(2):83