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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF PHARMACY
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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION – ECOLOGY
Institute of Public Health
“... One of the fundamental human rights is to live in a healthy environment appropriate to the
dignity of man ... But the man is responsible for this environment not only to the contemporary
society but to the rising generations too...”
(Proclamation of the UNO conference on Environmental Protection, Stockholm, 16. June, 1972.)
Aim of the training:
Teaching of general and profession-orientated subjects of environment protection based on the
studies of human ecology and environmental hygiene/epidemiology, which are obligatory for all
students in the course of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the first semester of the fourth study-year.
PROGRAMME
A) General relations
I Environmental conditions of living. Biosphere. Adaptation to the
environment.
Self regulating systems in (global and local) ecosystems. “Nourishment chains”
(systems) – ability for maintaining.
The “environment” as a unified system.
II Regenerating and non-regenerating resources for the humans
(thesis of the “Roman Club”).
Influences of human activities on biogeochemical circulation.
Anthropogenic pollution of the environment – indirect and direct dangers.
Possibilities of protection: environment – spare technological procedures;
biodegradability; technical development; waste materials: reduction of its
quantity, reutilization, neutralization of toxic and radioactive materials.
III Primary prevention of actual environmental damages,
hygienic standardization.
B) Professional knowledge
I Environmental pollution due to sanitary activities – prophylaxis, protection.
II Environmental pollution due to pharmaceutical activities-prophylaxis,
protection:
a) production and preparation of drugs
biotechnology,
medical plants\drugs,
basic and subsidiary materials of drugs,
packaging materials,
chemical medicaments,
biological, immunological and microbiological products,
plant protecting materials, insecticides, pesticides;
b) distribution and utilization of drugs;
c) scientific and laboratory activities.