Hygiene and infection control in health care

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1. General part:
– Historical overview of the development of hygiene
– Field and methods of work
– Links with social medicine, epidemiology, microbiology, ecology, spatial planning, education
– Basics of ecology (ecological systems and their workload, basics of environmental health)
– Organization of hygiene – health activities
2. Personal hygiene:
– Basics of body hygiene and hands hygiene
3. Hygiene of nutrition and food hygiene
4. Hygienic maintenance of residential premises and premises where health care activity operates
5. Communal Hygiene:
– Ensuring safe drinking water
– The issue of municipal waste and other waste
– Waste in health care
6. The influence of natural and living environment on health:
– Air pollution
– Noise, vibration, radiation
7. Hygienic and functional arrangement of living areas and residential premises, family and social buildings:
– Schools, kindergartens, retirement homes, health care facilities
8. Infections in health care
– Infections and importance of their control
– Legislation and organization of services for infection control in health care, implementation of control
– Preventive actions to prevent the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases in hospitals
– General and specific measures for controlling infections
– Distinguishing colonization, contamination and infection
– The most important causes of infections and ways of transmission
– Occurrence of infections in health care and risk factors
– The problem of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MRSA, VRE, ESBL)
– Water and food infections
– Health care professionals as source of infection
– Protection of health care professionals from infections at workplace

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