Hygiena, 2024 (vol. 69), issue 3
EDITORIAL
On medical education
Pavel Dlouhý, Jarmila Rážová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):83 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1866 
REVIEW PAPERS
Medical waste – current situation and the transition to a circular economy
Jana Loosová, Julie Mokrá
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):84-89 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1860
The analysis and subsequent visualisation of changes in waste production related to different levels of territorial units reflect the basic trends of changes in the structure of healthcare provision between 2020 and 2021. The issue of risks arising from healthcare waste management is shifting towards a circular economy at the global level in terms of managing material flows in the specific environment of healthcare and its safety requirements. The role of the public health authority in this matter resides in supervision, the content of which can be practically structured into the form of checklists enabling to find safe ways of introducing the principles...
Dietary exposure monitoring – celebrating 30th anniversary
Jiří Ruprich, Irena Řehůřková, Marcela Dofková, Jitka Blahová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):90-92 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1865
Since 1994, the National Institute of Public Health has been entrusted with guaranteeing the Environmental Health Monitoring System. This year (2024), we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of this system. The goal of the system is to achieve a systematic and transparent assessment of environmental and health effects that affect the Czech population. Dietary exposure plays an important role. The monitoring of dietary exposure requires the knowledge of the national food consumption at an individual level, determination of important foods in the usual diet, usual culinary preparations, combination into composite samples for laboratory...
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
The content of Ca and Mg in drinking water and its impact on the arterial stiffness of inhabitants of Slovak population
Stanislav Rapant, Veronika Cvečková, Patrik Čermák
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):93-96 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1858
Arterial stiffness is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which are the most common cause of death in developed countries. Based on measurements of arterial stiffness in inhabitants supplied with soft drinking water (100 respondents) and hard drinking water (100 respondents), a significant difference in pulse wave velocity (PWVao), arterial age, and the difference between arterial and actual age (Δ age) was found. In the respondents consuming soft drinking water, PWVao was 1.9 m.s-1 higher, arterial age was 23 years higher, and Δ age was 14.5 years higher. The respondents originally consuming...
The overwintering of the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus in the Czech Republic as a prerequisite for its establishment
Oldřich Šebesta, Martin Janouch, Kristína Mravcová, Silvie Šikutová, Ivo Rudolf
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):97-100 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1867
At the end of March 2024 in Borovany in South Bohemia in a garden pond in the vicinity of a private house a number of larvae (15 individuals per dm3) and some pupae were found which were later, based on hatched imagery, identified as the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus. Given the early finding of larvae, their number and age, we can conclude that this is the first record of the invasive genus Aedes overwintering in our area.
Legal actualities during 21. 6. 2024 – 30. 9. 2024
Eva Nekvindová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):101
NEWS
Methodological Guide of the National Institute of Public Health for the Control of the Bed Bug (Cimex lectularius)
Terezie Arnoldová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):100
In remembrance of MUDr. Karel Markvart
Ivana Vališová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):102-103
Contribution of the human biomonitoring programme in the Czech Republic to the PARC project
Vladimíra Puklová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):103-104
News from the General Assembly of the Global Network for Tobacco-Free Healthcare Services
Lenka Štěpánková
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):104-105
GYTS 2022 results
Petra Kamarádová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):105
“Fundamentals of Drinking Water Sensory Analysis” handbook
František Kožíšek
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):106
Surveillance and management of infectious disease epidemics associated with water supply systems
Hana Jeligová
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):107
Pozvánka na konferenci
SZÚ
Hygiena 2024, 69(3):108