Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

• Author: Müllerová, Dana.
• Place / Publishing House: Prague : : Karolinum Press,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (175 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• 1. PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
• 1.1 Health
• 1.1.1 Definition
• 1.1.2 Adaptation
• 1.3.3 Dimensions
• 1.3.4 Determinants
• 1.2 Assessment of population health status
• 1.2.1 Data resources for the assessment of population health status
• 1.3 Health preventive programs
• 2. DIET AND POPULATION
• 2.1 Dietary assessment, nutrition monitoring
• 2.1.1 National food supply
• 2.1.2 Food-frequency questionnaire
• 2.1.3 Dietary recall/records analysis
• 2.1.4 Household surveys
• 2.1.5 Chemical analysis of double portion
• 2.2 Factors influencing food consumption
• 2.3 Dietary recommendations
• 2.3.1 General dietary recommendations
• 2.3.2 Food-based dietary guidelines
• 2.3.3 Dietary reference intake
• 2.3.4 Alternative diets
• 2.3.4.1 Vegetarian diet
• 2.3.4.2 Macrobiotic diet
• 2.3.4.3 Alternative ecological bioproducts/organic products
• 3. MAJOR DIETARY CONSTITUENTS
• 3.1 Energy
• 3.1.1 Energy needs
• 3.1.2 Insufficient energy intake: Marasmus (protein-energy malnutrition)
• 3.1.3 Excessive energy intake: Obesity
• 3.2 Proteins
• 3.2.1 Insufficient intake
• 3.2.2 Excessive intake
• 3.3 Lipids
• 3.4 Carbohydrates
• 3.5 Dietary fiber
• 3.5.1 Components of fiber and their physiological parameters
• 3.5.2 Impact of dietary fiber on the gastrointestinal tract
• 3.5.3 Recommended dose of fiber
• 3.5.4 Diseases associated with lack of dietary fiber
• 3.6 Probiotics in diet
• 3.7 Dietary supplements
• 3.8 The most widespread micronutrients deficiencies
• 3.8.1 Vitamin A deficiency
• 3.8.2 Iron deficiency
• 3.8.3 Iodine deficiency
• 4. NUTRITIONAL-STATUS ASSESSMENT
• 4.1 Medical history
• 4.2 Somatometric measurements
• 4.3 Clinical examination
• 4.4 Laboratory tests
• 4.5 Food-intake information
• 5. NUTRITIONAL NEEDS DURING THE LIFE CYCLE
• 5.1 Nutrition in infancy.
• 5.1.1 Nutrition in the first 6 months, breast-feeding
• 5.1.2 Nutritive features of breast milk
• 5.1.3 Basic principles of nutrition from the 7th to 12th month
• 5.2 Nutrition of toddlers
• 5.3 Nutrition of preschool and younger school children
• 5.4 Nutrition of older school children and adolescents
• 5.5 Nutrition of elderly people
• 5.5.1 Assessment of nutritional status
• 5.5.2 Malnutrition
• 5.5.3 Dietary recommendations
• 6. FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY
• 6.1 Food Supply in the context of sustainable development
• 6.2 Food Safety
• 6.2.1 Alimentary infections
• 6.2.1.1 General symptoms of alimentary infections
• 6.2.1.2 Pathogenetic mechanisms of alimentary infections
• 6.2.1.3 The source
• 6.2.1.4 Transmission
• 6.2.1.5 Latency period
• 6.2.1.6 Diagnosis
• 6.2.1.7 An overview of bacterial alimentary diseases
• 6.2.1.8 An overview of viral alimentary diseases
• 6.2.1.9 An overview of parasitic alimentary diseases
• 6.2.1.10 Special alimentary diseases and infections of the gastrointestinal tract
• 6.2.1.11 Alimentary infections from the hygienic perspective
• 6.2.1.12 Transmission of alimentary diseases and epidemiological interventions
• 6.2.1.13 Anti-epidemic activities against alimentary infections
• 6.2.2 Chemical safety and xenobiotics in foods
• 6.2.2.1 Additives in foods
• 6.2.2.2 Contaminants in foods
• 6.2.3 Quality requirements for drinking water
• 6.2.3.1 Basic hazards from drinking water
• 6.3 Healthy nutrition for all
• 7. SMOKING
• 7.1 Introduction and epidemiology
• 7.2 Substances in tobacco mixture and tobacco smoke
• 7.3 Physiological mechanism of tobacco addiction
• 7.4 Classification and objectivization of tobacco addition
• 7.5 Health consequences of burning-tobacco use
• 7.5.1 Cardiovascular diseases - mechanisms and effects
• 7.5.2 Oncological diseases - mechanisms and effects.
• 7.6 Therapy and brief intervention of patients (method 5 A's)
• 7.7 Public health actions
• 8. ALCOHOL OVERCONSUMPTION
• 9. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
• 9.1 Global and european strategies
• 9.2 Physical activity in primary prevention
• 9.3 Health-oriented physical fitness and physical activity
• 9.3.1 Physical-activity recommendations
• 9.3.2 The assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness
• 9.3.3 Neuromuscular fitness and postural-pattern assessment
• 10. PREVENTION OF NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
• 10.1 Obesity
• 10.1.1 Epidemiology of obesity
• 10.1.2 Obesity prevention at population level
• 10.1.3 Obesity prevention - an individual approach
• 10.1.4 Diet therapy in the prevention and management of adult obesity
• 10.2 Cardiovascular diseases
• 10.2.1 Risk factors
• 10.2.2 Prevention
• 10.2.2.1 Lifestyle intervention focused on physical activity
• 10.2.2.2 Lifestyle intervention focused on diet
• 10.2.2.3 Mechanisms of cardioprotective effects of phytochemical substances
• 10.3 Oncological diseases and their primary prevention
• 10.3.1 Primary prevention of malignancies from the community point of view
• 10.3.2 Secondary prevention of malignancies from the community point of view
• 10.3.3 Primary and secondary prevention of tumors from the individual point of view
• 11. CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Child growth and development
• 11.2.1 Assessment of selected anthropometric data
• 11.2.1.1 Construction and use of growth charts
• 11.2.1.2 Assessment of body length (height) and growth rate
• 11.2.1.3 Determinants of growth
• 11.2.1.4 Growth disorders
• 11.2.1.5 Nutritional-status assessment in children
• 11.1.2 Developmental characteristics of children and adolescents
• 11.2.2.1 Periodization of childhood and adolescence
• 11.2.2.2 Psychomotor and psychosocial development.
• 11.3 Health risks of children, the level of stress
• 11.3.1 Fulfilling the basic needs of a child
• 11.3.2 Signs of disrespect for the basic needs of a child
• 11.3.2.1 Health risks in kindergartens
• 11.3.2.2 School and inappropriate school load
• 11.4 Prevention of children's injuries and violence against children
• 11.4.1 Prevention of children's injuries
• 11.4.2 Prevention of violence against children
• 11.4.2.1 Risk factors. Forms of violence: definition, consequences
• 12. HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
• 12.1 Water management
• 12.1.1 Protection of drinking-water sources
• 12.2 Noise and its reduction
• 12.3 Air pollution
• 12.4 Public-health view on waste
• 12.5 Maintaining a safe building environment
• 12.5.1 Indoor climatic conditions
• 12.5.2 Indoor air quality
• 12.5.3 Lighting
• 13. OXIDATIVE STRESS
• 13.1 Free radicals
• 13.2Formation of free radicals
• 13.2.1 Endogenous causes
• 13.2.2 Exogenous causes
• 13.3 Antioxidant-defense system
• 13.3.1 Antioxidant enzymes
• 13.3.2 Non-enzymatic antioxidant proteins
• 13.3.3 Low-molecular antioxidant substrates
• 13.4 Total antioxidant capacity
• 13.5 Balance between free radicals and antioxidants
• 13.6 Beneficial effects of free radicals
• 13.7 Deleterious effects of free radicals on biomolecules
• 13.8 Quantification of oxidative stress
• 13.9 Oxidative-stress-related diseases
• References.