Hygiena, 2024 (vol. 69), issue 4

EDITORIAL

"The processes taking place in the healthcare sector need to be looked at comprehensively. In these processes an indispensable place is occupied by public health."

Tatiana Červeňová

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):111-112 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1874

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Results of lead monitoring in drinking water in schools

František Kožíšek, Zdeňka Trestrová

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):113-119 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1875

Aim: Following the ban on lead additives in gasoline and interior paints, drinking water in homes with old lead plumbing and service connection remains a major source of lead exposure for the child population. Therefore, new legislative precautionary measures in the form of risk assessment and management are directed at this area. Methods: The Regional Public Health Authorities conducted a pilot project in 2023 to monitor the presence of lead in drinking water in school facilities. A total of 434 different kinds of schools were investigated in all regions of the Czech Republic as part of the project. The survey was primarily focused on school buildings...

Possibilities for assessing the dose-response relationship in persons exposed to noise from mining activities

Dana Potužníková, Tomáš Hellmuth, David Kresl, Pavel Junek, Hana Šlachtová, Markéta Stanovská, Hana Tomášková

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):120-129 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1870

Objective: The objective was to obtain and evaluate information on the level of annoyance caused by industrial noise from mining activities to the population. Methods: The research used a combination of long-term monitoring of noise at night (L_Aeq,_T) from the operation of the Turów surface mine (Poland) and area modeling of the noise load in the three closest residential locations in the Czech Republic (exposed areas of Uhelná and Oldřichov na Hranicích, control area of Václavice). In 2022 and 2023, a questionnaire survey focused on issues of the environment, health status, quality of life and demographic data took...

REVIEW PAPERS

Strategic Noise Maps and Noise Action Plans 2024

Pavel Junek, Dana Potužníková, Tomáš Hellmuth, Aleš Jiráska

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):130-135 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1873

In five-year cycles, the Czech Republic is obliged to calculate Strategic Noise Maps, of the purpose of which is to identify critical points, i.e. places with the highest concentration of people affected by the highest noise levels. The regional authorities, the Prague City Hall and the Ministry of Transport are working on noise reduction action plans for these places. Their purpose is to describe and evaluate the already implemented measures for the given area, propose possible new noise reduction measures and define long-term strategies leading to noise reduction. Furthermore, the action plans evaluate the proposed measures economically. Prepared...

Noise monitoring in the Czech Republic – past and future

Zdeňka Vandasová

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):136-139 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1872

Noise monitoring is part of the Environmental Health Monitoring System in the Czech Republic. In the 30 years of its existence, it has brought a number of results. What was monitored was not only noise in the selected urban localities and its development but also noise annoyance and sleep disturbance, the residents' attitudes towards noise and noise coping strategies. The article provides a summary of the results, problems and challenges of noise monitoring and an indication of its future development.

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

LERCO – Environmental epidemiology as a tool for improving the quality of life in industrial environments

Hana Tomášková, Vítězslav Jiřík, Hana Šlachtová, Petra Riedlová, Vera Jandačková, Rastislav Maďar

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):140-142 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1869

This short communication provides information about the LERCO project and one of its nine research programmes – RP8 Environmental epidemiology as a tool for improving the quality of life in industrial environments. The main objective of the LERCO project is to support the development of the research and development potential of the Moravian-Silesian Region, which should have a positive impact on the health of the population, education, unemployment and the connection of research and development with the commercial sphere in the region. The project has enabled to build state-of-the-art technological facilities for research programmes, which will...

Legal actualities during 1. 10. 2024 – 15. 12. 2024

Eva Nekvindová

Hygiena 2024, 69(4):143

NEWS

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