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Lecturer(s)
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Palarčík Jiří, Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Introduction to environmental issues, their significance for the person's health. Environmental sectors - air, water, soil, energy conservation, and renewable sources of energy. The effects of toxic substances at the organ level. Toxic effects of selected groups of substances - heavy metals. Toxic effects of other selected groups of substances- genotoxic, organic compounds, etc. Waste from health care workplaces. Methods of health care waste treatment- nonincineration processes. Methods of health care workplace waste treatment- incineration processes.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is become acquainted with basic principles of environmental protection, a description of outputs of anthropogenic activities in individual sectors of the environment, basic terms and methods in toxicology, and principles of environmental protection.
The student understands the fundamentals of assessing the quality and quantity of these outputs, the options for and methods of their de termination and elimination, and is able to evaluate health risks stemming from environmental contamination. He/she applies the principles of waste economy and waste treatment, knows energy conservation and renewable sources of energy.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Didactic test
Completion of compulsory 50% attendance at the lectures. Successful completion of a written test or an oral examination according to the course guarantor's decision.
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Recommended literature
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Materiály na webových stránkách Ústavu ochrany životního prostředí FCHT UPa.
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KURAŠ M. Odpady, jejich využití a zneškodňování. Praha, ČSU 1994 s. 241.
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