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B Tichácek

Publications and source records attributed to B Tichácek.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1992

[Epidemiology and public health].

The author analyzes the development and perspectives of epidemiology as a scientific discipline and as a component in the organization of the public health system. As a basis serve mainly evaluations and views of WHO on these problems.

Epidemiology↗
PubMed1992

Health and environment in Czechoslovakia.

The study summarizes basic information on environmental conditions and health status of the Czechoslovak population. It analyzes the relationships between health and environmental conditions, and Appendix brings the comprehensive results of relevant studies performed in Czechoslovakia. The analytic results suggest the quality of Czechoslovak ecology as unsatisfactory, which in some localities, e.g. North Bohemia coal fields, Prague, Ostrava, is next to critical, with heavy impact on the population's health. The Czechoslovak citizens are more prone to falling ill, die sooner than their peers in the majority of European and non-European countries. In addition to the specific effects of individual factors and life style also immunity, reproduction cycle, metabolic processes etc. become involved in the health-living conditions relationships. All these influences are responsible for high rates of morbidity due to the so-called civilization diseases. Inevitably, the only possible solution is to protect effectively human healthy by protecting his living conditions, i.e. environment and life style.

Czechoslovakia↗
PubMed1990

[Environment and health].

The intrinsic physical, chemical, biological, and psycho-social factors are reviewed as groups of environmental factors, which influence the living and working environment of man. The application of epidemiological methods in the environmental hygiene is discussed.

Environmental Health↗
PubMed1989

[Epidemiologic methods and their application].

The first part of the paper pertains to the concept of the approach to investigations of health in relation to the living environment. It is based on the fact that man is exposed to the action of basic groups of factors: physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial. Attention is devoted not only to the specific action of individual factors or their groups to the health of man but also to certain general trends, i.e. the influence on the immunobiological status of the organism, the influence on the cardiovascular system and the influence on the genetic apparatus with all sequelae, in particular in the sphere of diseases of civilization. As these factors only rarely act isolated, a comprehensive approach to the problem is essential. In the main part of the paper the principles of the application of epidemiological methods in the sphere of investigations of the health status and living environment are analyzed. The following pattern is used: 1. Descriptive epidemiology (using mortality and morbidity statistics); 2. Analytical epidemiology (prospective and retrospective approach); 3. Experimental epidemiology. The key problem remains assessment of exposure and subsequent effect on health. In conjunction with it certain principles of assessment and monitoring are mentioned as well as advantages and limitation of the basic methods of approach.

Epidemiologic Methods↗
PubMed1989

[The concept of information systems].

On the example of existing information systems of communicable diseases the authors analyze the possibilities of and draw attention to the obstacles of their wider use. The following information systems are involved: ARO (acute respiratory diseases), APO (acute diarrhoeal diseases), ISBT (information system of bacillary tuberculosis), ISPO (information system of communicable diseases), ISID (information system of child immunization). In the general evaluation the authors draw attention to the demand to do away with the scattered character of the system and the necessity of delimitation of the responsibility for the establishment and operation of the information systems. The authors indicate the future desirable development.

Communicable Diseases↗