Expert worker in public health protection

The subsequent Master study takes two years and continues the Bachelor study in the discipline of Public health protection.

The study should offer the students highly qualified education focused on the issue of protection and support of public health. The protection and support of public health is defined by Act No. 258/2000 Coll. on public health protection, as amended. The graduates from this study discipline are authorized to perform the health care job of professional worker in public health protection.

After completing this study program, the graduates will perform activities related to execution of state supervision and other activities related to public health protection and support. They will perform complex investigation in field and other activities needed to ensure protection and support of public health and to avoid emergence, spreading and to restrict incidence of infectious diseases, massively occurring diseases, work related diseases and other significant health disorders in compliance with special legal regulations. They will perform complex measurement, taking of samples and biological material for laboratory examinations in the area of public health protection and support, collection of the necessary data, their further analysis, processing and proposing of suitable measures.

The graduates will participate in monitoring the health condition of the population in relation to life and work conditions, in preparing complex programs of health protection and support, as well as in their implementation and provision of healthy life and work conditions. Further they can cooperate in control of all disinfection, disinsection and rodent control interventions and control their efficiency. Within their activity, they can provide for control of measures in prevention of hospital infections in health care facilities and social care institutions, including control of sterilization, check the fulfilment of the imposed measures, make records and prepare basic data for further measures of the relevant body of public health protection, educate the citizens to healthy life style and perform consulting activity in areas of support of health and healthy life style. They can perform the above stated activities in the department of the Czech Ministry of Health at the State health institute and at regional sanitary stations where they will participate in activities of protection and support of public health within public administration (public health protection body). Further they 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.