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Employers' role in Chronic Diseases Prevention
Kollerová, Martina ; Lipšová, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Kožená, Ludmila (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to define the role of employers in the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases, more precisely to explore the existing effective opportunities for the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases that employers can provide at workplace. Consequently, find out the attitudes of employers in the Czech Republic to these prevention interventions possibilities in comparison with the attitudes of employees. Finally, demonstrate the effectiveness of the selected prevention tool in a case study of one employer. The theoretical part of the thesis defines the main non-communicable diseases, their prevalence and incidence on a global scale and in the Czech Republic. The main risk factors of these diseases are described with an emphasis on modifiable behavioural risk factors. The review of the latest studies summarizes the evidence-based information on the impact of key behavioural lifestyle factors in the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases. The possibilities to reduce risk factors of non-communicable diseases by employers are discussed in the analysis of available up-to-date scientific literature. The aim of the analysis was to identify and clearly define the key areas of employers' interventions and find out to what extent the employers in the Czech...
Patients' knowledge and experience with nutritional counselling in relation to the occurrence of certain comorbidities of obesity.
Kollerová, Martina ; Svačina, Štěpán (advisor) ; Slabá, Šárka (referee)
The objective of this bachelor thesis was to obtain a comprehensive view on nutrition counselling and confirm or disprove the need to regulate the profession of nutrition consultants. The theoretical part of the thesis explains the relationship of obesity and its comorbidities, confirms the high prevalence of comorbidities as documented by several major studies conducted on large populations, and analyses the relevant legal norms dealing with the conditions on performing a nutrition counselling. As part of this thesis a primary research was conducted, carried out as anonymous survey with patients of Obesity Centre, 3rd Medical Department, 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General Faculty Hospital in Prague, with clients of Recondition Centre VŠTJ Medicina Prague and clients of commercial providers of nutrition counselling. This survey confirmed that knowledge of general nutrition recommendations is satisfactory among respondents, but they tend not to follow the recommendations. The research pointed out clients' high confidence in nutrition consultants. More than three quarters of respondents in both groups labelled weight reduction as the most distinctive service of nutritional consultants. Over ⅓ of respondents said helping patients with chronic diseases as one of the typical services...

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