MMSL, 2021 (vol. 90), issue 2
ANTIOXIDANTS IN PATIENTS LIVING WITH HIV ON ANTIRETROVIRALSOriginal article
Katerina Havlickova, Svatava Snopkova, Miroslav Pohanka, Radek Svacinka, Petr Husa j., Filip Zlamal, Lenka Fabianova, Petr Husa
MMSL 2021, 90(2):54-60 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.005 
Oxidative stress is considered predictors of diseases associated with aging (cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease, malignancies, and others) in HIV-negative general population. Antioxidants were investigated in people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment to determine whether they had an immunosenescent phenotype that might predispose to the development of premature age-related diseases. Clinical studies in this population are controversial.Methods: The study was conducted among 213 subjects with HIV, including 172 subjects on antiretro-virals and 41 subjects before the initiation of treatment. The control group consisted of healthy...
IMPLEMENTATION OF DISTANCE LEARNING INTO EDUCATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY MEDICAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE UNDER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONDITIONSOriginal article
Milan Růžička, Pavel Blažek, Jaroslav Žďára, Tomáš Kučera, Vojtěch Humlíček, Hynek Schvach, Zbyněk Suchánek, Petr Smola, Dana Knajflová
MMSL 2021, 90(2):61-71 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.009
As in everyday life, it was necessary to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the campus of the Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence, as well. The management of the faculty took a number of measures, but for the academic sphere, the most important of these was the restriction of contact teaching. The way, in which teaching and training would proceed in the limited conditions, has been delegated to the heads of departments and guarantors of individual subjects. The Department of Military Medical Service Organization tested a teaching model which brought new knowledge that can be worked with in the future.
SENIOR AT RISK OF MENTAL DISORDEROriginal article
Lukáš Stárek
MMSL 2021, 90(2):72-76 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.014
The aim of this paper is to highlight the problematic of significant growth of mental health issues in retire people category, and the care of retire people with mental health issues, primarily the perspective of this paper is social. The main focus of this article is on characteristic and approach to mental health issues with addition of arise of mental health issues in the population. Also, it reflects the pandemic of COVID-19. Furthermore, the article is presenting the aspect of social influence. Besides, it focuses on the possibilities of healing the mental health diseases with regards to chosen age category.
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES AND JOB CATHEGORIZATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN YEARS 2010-2019Review article
Blanka Kupsová, Vladimír Pavlík, Jan M. Horáček, Petr Lašák, Václav Šafka, Jana Fajfrová, Karin Boušová
MMSL 2021, 90(2):77-82 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.006
This article focuses on health protection at work and investigates the potential health risk in the workplace. It describes the system of job cathegorization in the Czech Republic regarding professional diseases focusing on occupational diseases. Information about the employer’s responsibility for harm caused by occupational diseases and subsequent compensation is provided in this article. This review summarises incidences of occupational diseases in hierarchical risk level of jobs within the years 2010-2019. These jobs are categorised by the employer and regional hygienic station.
EMERGENCY BURIAL IN THE EVENT OF A MASS FATALITY IN THE CZECH REPUBLICReview article
Tomáš Zeman, Leopold Skoruša, František Paulus, Alena Oulehlová, Eva Drozdová
MMSL 2021, 90(2):83-92 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.008
Emergency burial of the dead is one of the tools for dealing with mass fatalities in cases where the capacity of funeral services is insufficient to ensure the proper burial of dead bodies. The aim of the article is to assess current possibilities and requirements for emergency burial of the dead in the Czech Republic based on the analysis of applicable legal regulations. It was found that some essential requirements for emergency burial of the dead is not regulated in the current legislation: 1) responsibilities for the performance of emergency funeral services are not clearly defined; 2) there are no mandatory requirement for the method of inhumation...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTHReview article
Anna Valentová, Vanda Bostik
MMSL 2021, 90(2):93-99 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.010
This paper’s aim is to provide clear basic explanation of the relationship between human health and climate change. It focuses on global warming, connecting it with the greenhouse effect and describing various effects the global warming has already had on human health. After the disclosure of other threats connected to climate change, the paper studies the history of it according to the Anthropocene concept theory. It also uses the perspective of weather extremes to explain climate change in the past and its connection to human health. Furthermore, this article focuses on the air pollution and its impact on the health of human population. Lastly,...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY - THE PROLIFERATION OF VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGEReview article
Martina Benito Olmos, Vanda Bostik
MMSL 2021, 90(2):100-106 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.011
Human activity has had severe effects on the changes in climate over the last decades affecting, as a consequence, human security overall. The importance of changes in climate and their consequent effects have been long overlooked to the point that nowadays human health is being threatened by sea rise, extreme weather events, lack of adequate basic resources, and the spread of numerous diseases, to name some. This article aims to demonstrate how these variations have promoted the spread of vector-borne diseases (VBD). More specifically, it follows the developments of Dengue fever (DENV) as a result of higher temperatures and abundant precipitations,...
IN MEMORIAM: JÁN CAPKO, MDLetter to the editor
Leo Klein
MMSL 2021, 90(2):107-108