Public health protection

The Bachelor study takes three years and upon graduating from it, the graduates get the authorization to perform health-care job with the consent of the Czech Ministry of Health.

The study should offer the students education focused on the issue of protection and support of public health. The protection and support of public health is, according to Act No. 258/2000 Coll., on protection of public health and on change of some related acts, the sum of activities and measures to create and protect healthy living and working conditions and to avoid spreading of infectious and massively occurring illnesses, danger to health related with performed work, emergence of illnesses related to work and other significant health disorders and supervision of their maintenance.

The graduates from this study discipline are authorized to perform the health care job of assistant of public health protection. After graduating from the above stated study program, the students can perform their profession in state administration in protection and support of public health in regional hygienic stations (public health protection body) in the relevant disciplines, e.g. work hygiene, children and youth hygiene, nutrition hygiene, general and communal hygiene, epidemiology and health support, performing state health supervision, assessing the risks and educating the population to healthy life style etc. They will perform partial measurement, taking of samples and biological material for laboratory examinations in the area of public health protection and support, collection of the necessary data, participating in processing and analysis of data and proposing of suitable measures. Further they will participate in getting the basic data for monitoring of the health condition of the population in relation to life and work conditions, in preparing programs of health protection and support, as well as in their implementation and provision of healthy life and work conditions. Within their activity, they will cooperate in control of all disinfection, disinsection and rodent control interventions and control their efficiency. The sum of activities of the assistant of public health protection includes also activities to control the measures for prevention of hospital infections.

The graduates will find employment also in the departments of the Czech Ministry of Defence, Ministry of the Interior, fulfilling the tasks given by Act No. 258/2000 Coll., as well as of the Czech Ministry of Health, e.g. in the State health institute, within their activities including consulting activity, activities aimed at examination and measurement of components of life and work environment etc.