Hygiena, 2024 (vol. 69), issue 2
EDITORIAL
Disposable versus reusable – are we ready for the change?
Bohdana Rezková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):43 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1862 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Monitoring the development of mental health in clients of the Addiction Clinic for Children and Adolescents
Simona Sedláčková, Alena Fialová, Vladimír Pavlík, Lidmila Hamplová, Kateřina Beji Sedláčková, Veronika Pišová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):44-49 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1855
Aim: Mental health disorders in children have recently been drawing an increasing amount of attention, also in connection with the full capacities of psychiatric outpatient clinics for children and adolescents, as well as addiction outpatient clinics and children's psychiatric clinics. In line with assumptions that the mental state of children deteriorates, a retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the situation from 2016 to 2022. The aim of the research was to evaluate the state of mental health of child clients of the addiction clinic with a focus on the identification of risk factors influencing the occurrence of dissociation disorders in...
REVIEW PAPERS
30 years of the environmental health monitoring system in the Czech Republic
Vladimíra Puklová, Jiří Ruprich, Bohumil Kotlík, Helena Kazmarová, Jana Kratěnová, František Kožíšek, Milena Černá, Zdeňka Vandasová, Vladimíra Lipšová, Kristýna Žejglicová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):50-55 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1861
In 2024, 30 years have passed since the introduction of the systematic collection and evaluation of data on the exposure of the Czech population to toxic chemical substances and harmful factors, including the characterization of related health risks. Within the monitoring System, we regularly assess health risks related to exposure to urban air pollutants, contaminants in drinking water from public water supply systems and in the entire consumption food basket, we perform human biomonitoring of the general population, investigate the effects of community noise, monitor the effects of exposure in the work environment, and we organise national survey...
REPORT FROM PRACTICE
Salmonellosis outbreak caused by Salmonella Thompson
Eva Beranová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):56-60 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1859
Between 28 March and 2 April 2023, a total of 135 persons (52 males and 83 females) aged between 2 and 79 years contracted acute gastroenteritis after consuming food, out of a total of 339 exposed persons (339 servings dispensed). The attack rate was 39.82%. The course of the infection was moderate to severe with a duration of up to several days, and a total of 8 persons were hospitalized in health care facilities, while dozens of other persons were treated as outpatients. A total of 102 biological material samples and 51 food and environmental samples were taken in this case. Concurrently, multiple epidemiological investigations were also carried...
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Legal actualities during 16. 3. 2024 – 20. 6. 2024
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):61-62
CONFERENCE COMMUNICATIONS
30th International Conference on Hospital Epidemiology and Hygiene
Hospital hygiene, epidemiology and sustainability
Lenka Hobzová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):63-77 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1863
Abstracts of papers delivered.
Abstract of papers delivered
1. Health protection, healthcare workers&
The Public Health system in the Czech Republic – the role of the National Institute of Public Health
Barbora Macková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):64 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0132
Hospital hygiene and epidemiology – the future of physician and non-physician education
Petr Smejkal
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):64-65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0133
Vaccination in high-risk groups
Petr Pazdiora
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0134
“It’s the beginning of the pertussis year!?”
Kateřina Fabiánová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):65 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0135
2. Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections; artificial intelligence in healthcare; prevalence studies
The path to the optimal role of health insurance companies in improving the efficiency and quality of the Czech healthcare system
Ladislav Švec
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):65-66 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0136
Healthcare-associated infections for practice
Jarmila Kohoutová, Petr Smejkal
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):66 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0137
Automation and digitalization in hospital hygiene and epidemiology: QUO VADIS?
Jaroslava Sokolová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):66-67 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0138
Healthcare-associated infection surveillance automated using artificial intelligence
Jana Prattingerová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):67 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0139
Surveilance of healthcare associated infections in the Banská Bystrica Children’s University
Hospital and the first findings in searching for HAI using artificial intelligence algorithms
Michaela Golianová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):67-68 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0140
Documentation in outbreak surveillance and investigation
Vladimír Príkazský, Jana Prattingerová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):68 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0141
Words and deeds in CAUTI prevention
Petr Havlíček
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):68 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0142
3. Microbiological aspects of HAI, surveillance of antibiotic resistance - intervention activities
Healthcare-associated infections – point prevalence surveys in university hospitals 2023 (comparison)
Lenka Hobzová, Helena Bálková, Lada Čiklová, Jaroslav Jirouš, Zuzana Sněhotová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):68-69 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0143
The improvement of the epidemiological situation in the monitored hospital between the two ECDC point prevalence surveys (2017 and 2023) as an expected consequence of the applied multidisciplinary intervention
Juliana Pašková, Miroslava Podolinská, Roman Púčik, Elena Jakubíková, Ľubica Slimáková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):69 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0144
Our experience with broad-based sample collection and clone typing to distinguish likely routes of spread of bacterial clones in hospital intensive care
Vladislav Raclavský, Lenka Doubravská, Jakub Lasák, Taťána Štosová, Jan Hálek
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):69-70 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0145
Possibility of using new didactic methods in the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections
Martin Krause, Marie Froňková, Michaela Přibíková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):70 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0146
4. Sterilization of medical devices, EU requirements for sterilization - MDR, validation of the sterilization process according to legislation. Urinary tract infection - definition, prevention and treatment
Legislative requirements in the sterilisation process
Lenka Žďárská
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):70-71 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0147
MD monitoring using RFID and Data Matrix
Pavel Stratil, František Trhoň
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):71 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0148
The importance and evolution of surgical textiles in the context of time and globalisation
Petra Georgievová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):71-72 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0149
Risk of injury among healthcare workers
Iva Šípová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):72 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0150
Occupational carcinogenic risk in healthcare
Michael Vít, Luděk Bláha
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):72-73 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0151
5. Ectoparasites. Patient decontamination, environment decontamination. Environmental contamination checks - objectives, strategies
Scabies in humans and animals – anti-epidemic measures
Věra Melicherčíková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):73 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0152
Risk analysis and management of the internal water supply system – changes in the approach to legionellosis prevention in inpatient healthcare facilities
Bohdana Rezková, Barbora Žolcerová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):73-74 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0153
Effect of UV-C disinfection, domestic and global experience
Ivo Strnad
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):74 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0154
Modern technologies and methodologies for medical facilities cleaning
Jiří Knap
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):74-75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0155
Prevention of waste from catering services
Michal Porhajm
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0156
6. Posters
Nosocomial viral infection after the covid-19 pandemic
Zuzana Škvarková, Veronika Bučková, Lukáš Pazderka, Vanesa Chebenová, Aurel Dobiaš, Karolína Tomčíková, Lucia Jakubcová, Jaroslava Sokolová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):75 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0157
Surveillance of HAI and MDR bacteria using HAIDI software in Trnava University Hospital
Veronika Bučková, Vanesa Chebenová, Zuzana Škvarková, Aurel Dobiaš, Jaroslava Sokolová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0158
Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on compliance with hand hygiene principles
Vanesa Chebenová, Zuzana Škvarková, Veronika Bučková, Jaroslava Sokolová
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0159
Health risks of electromagnetic fields and radiation
Petr Vrbík
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):76 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0160
Monitoring of MDR bacteria from hospital environment in Slovakia
Lenka Reizigová, Jaroslava Sokolová, Karolína Tomčíková, Lucia Jakubcová, Vanesa Chebenová, Anna Líšková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):77 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.b0161
NEWS
NAUTA 2023: National research on tobacco and alcohol use in the Czech Republic
Miroslava Skývová, Alena Fialová, Ladislav Csémy, Marek Malý, Zuzana Dvořáková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):62-77
On the 70th birthday of Professor MVDr. Jiří Ruprich, CSc.
Vladimír Ostrý, Irena Řehůřková
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):78
Appointment of new Chief Public Health Officer of the Czech Republic
Redakce
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):79
Socioeconomic inequalities and biological ageing
Anna Bartošková, Andrea Dalecká
Hygiena 2024, 69(2):79-80