040-0164/01 – Occupational Medicine (PL)
| Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | Mgr. Michaela Škerková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Michaela Škerková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Students will learn how to orientate themselves in problems of interdisciplinary field of occupational medicine. They will gain knowledge about complex occupational health care and health protection at work. They will learn to know the general principles of health fitness assessment and health risk assessment at work. Furthermore, they will be acquainted with the biological effects of the most common risk factors of the working environment, their methods of objectification and will acquire the most common diseases that arise as a result of these risk factors and are reported as occupational diseases.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
Pracovní lékařství je interdisciplinární obor vycházející z poznatků řady oborů medicínských, přírodovědných a technických. Předmětem oboru je vliv práce, pracovních podmínek a pracovního prostředí na zdraví pracovníků. Předmět prohlubuje znalosti studentů především v oblasti rizikových faktorů v pracovním prostředí.
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Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Kombinovaná zkouška.
E-learning
Other requirements
There are no other requirements for the students.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures (2hrs)
1. Occupational medicine as a discipline, definitions, goals and activities of the field. Preventive nature of occupational medicine.
2. Occupational medical care, legislative background, content, main tasks.
3. Health risk assessment in occupational medicine. Categorization of work activities - procedure, design management, measurement and evaluation of risk factors for categorization, evidence of risky work.
4. Health fitness assessment. Medical examinations, purpose, content of preventive examinations.
5. Physical risk factors in the work environment and their impact on human health 1.
6. Physical risk factors in the work environment and their impact on human health 2.
7. Factors of physical workload and their impact on human health.
8. Dust as a risk factor for the working environment and its impact on human health.
9. Chemical factors in the working environment and their impact on human health.
10. Biological factors in the working environment and their impact on human health.
11. Factors of mental and sensory stress and their influence on human health.
12. Occupational diseases, definitions, assessment and recognition elements.
13. Accidents at work. Specifics of working conditions for juveniles, women, pregnant women and people of higher age. Work-related illnesses - the most common illness of a non-professional nature that can be aggravated by work.
Exercise (1hr)
1. Individual types of prevention in occupational medicine, possibilities of their use and importance for protection and support of employees health. Examples.
2. Anamnestic and somatic examination (TK and TF measurements).
3. Categorization - examples. Category categorization.
4. Medical fitness assessment - examples, case reports.
5. Investigation methods at risk of noise 1 (speech, tuning, otoacoustic emissions)
6. Investigation methods at risk of noise 2 (tone audiometry).
7. Examination methods in risk of vibration (finger plethysmography and cold test).
8. Examination methods in the risk of local muscular load (EMG), practical examples.
9. Investigation methods in dust risk 1 (spirometry).
10. Investigation methods in dust risk 1 (RTG).
11. Examination methods at risk of visual stress (visual acuity examination).
12. Occupational diseases - trends in the number of reported diseases, case reports. Work-related diseases. Examples, case reports.
13. Investigation methods in risk of chemical substances (BET).
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction