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HYGIENE DEPARTMENT

  • NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

  • NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS SURVEY

  • Identification and quantification of environmental contaminants;

  • Studies on the relationship between health and environment quality

  • Environment toxicology - experimental studies

  • Evaluation of health status and the adaptative capacity of children and adolescents to environment factors and scholar activity

  • Survey of nutrition habits in relation with health status of human collectivities 

  • Methodological support

  • Training in preventive medicine

  • Risk communication

  • Training of medical college students

 ENVIRONMENTAL, NUTRITION AND SCHOOL HYGIENE UNIT

  • Experimental studies

  • Exposure biomarkers and effect of contaminants

  • Evaluation of hygienic and sanitary conditions of human habitat

  • Risk communication

  • Complex evaluation of food products’ quality

  • Evaluation of nutrition quality in human collectivities;  nutritional risk in chronic diseases

  • Expertise of food products and equipments used in food industry

  • Health evaluation in children and adolescent by means of positive index: physical and psychological development

  • Health evaluation in children and adolescents by periodical examination

  • Investigation of children’s health status versus air and water pollution

  • Health and adaptative capacity evaluation of children in relation with scholar activity

  • Investigation of hygienic and sanitary conditions in children and adolescent collectivities

  • Investigation of behavioral risk of children and adolescents

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

  • Quantitative of chemical pollutants in atmospheric and indoor air

  • Evaluation of organoleptic, physical and chemical quality of drinking water

  • Quantitative of soil chemical pollutants

  • Waste management risk

  • Quality evaluation of water used in entertainment activities

  • Evaluation of the chemical contamination in food products

  • Monitoring of iodine content in cooking salt

 ENVIRONMENTAL BACTERIOLOGY LABORATORY

  • Microbiological burden of air, water and soil

  • Studies of ecotoxicology

  • Evaluation of microbiological contamination of food products

  • Monitoring of foodborne diseases

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY & PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT

  • COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM

  • Public health surveillance of eastern territory of Romania

  • Identification of priorities in health

  • Elaboration and implementation of the regional and national strategies in diseases prevention and control

  • Operation research

  • Elaboration of recommendations and guidelines for public health intervention

  • Training in epidemiology, microbiology and applied public health

  • Advise and support to district Public Health Authorities

 EPIDEMIOLOGY

  • Coordinating communicable diseases surveillance and control in eastern Romania

  • Supervising implementation of the national programs at the regional level

  • Provide technical assistance including epidemic aid during outbreaks of communicable diseases

  • Conduct and manages operational research to evaluate develop and promote prevention and control strategies for infectious diseases

  • Assess population receptivity and monitor efficiency of vaccines, identifying the regional priorities and the opportunity for changes in vaccination schedule

  • Elaborated projects of standards and methodologies for epidemiological surveillance

  • Run training courses in the actual epidemiological problems

MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY

  • Enterobacteriaceae diagnosis, serotyping and preparation of specific enterobacteria antiserum;

  • Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Corynebacterium diphteriae and Neisseria infections diagnosis;

  • Antibiotic resistance surveillance;

  • Serological markers identification for A,B,C, D and E hepatitis, measles, rubella, influenzae;

  • Antigenic detection in influenza and rotavirus infections;

  • Non-polio enteroviruses isolation;

  • Toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis, trichinosis, hydatidosis, malaria laboratory diagnosis;

  • Anopheles entomological surveillance;

  • Antigen preparation for different test; in vivo and in vitro pathogenicity tests for different bacterial, viral and parasitic agents.

PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT

  • Health status assessment

  • Perception assessment of health status

  • Assessment of the trends of the main aspects of health status

  • Assessment of behavioral and metabolic risk in the evolution of some chronic diseases

  • Identification of health problems

  • Relationship between health and the quality of life

 

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT

  • Occupational epidemiology

  • Monitoring of occupational exposure and early health effects

  • Monitor the health status of employed population

  • Applied researches

  • Medical assistance

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH UNIT

  • Occupational microclimate

  • Non-ionising radiation

  • Ergonomy

  • Occupational psychology

  • Occupational and occupational related diseases

  • Health studies in industrial environment

  • Spirometry, EKG, EEG, EMG, audiometry

  • Noise evaluation

  • Haematology

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE AND TOXICOLOGY UNIT

  • Exposure risk assessment

  • Indoor air quality

  • Aerosols and particulates; fibers

  • Heavy metals

  • Volatile organic compounds

  • Clinical chemistry

  • Cytogenesis, mutagenesis, teratology and morphocitology evaluations

  • Toxicological evaluation in animal experiments

IONIZING RADIATION HYGIENE LABORATORY

 
  1. Occupational exposure to ionizing radiation:

  •  assessment of staff occupationally exposed in medical and non-medical ionizing radiation uses;

  •  aptitude evaluation for work in ionizing radiation environment;

  •  medical expertise for personnel in special condition workplaces – ionizing radiation.

  1. Population exposure to natural and artificial ionizing radiation sources:

  •  natural and artificial radioactivity expertise using gamma multi-channel spectrometry analyses;

  • assessment of the radioprotection level of patients in diagnostic in diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology and nuclear medicine practices;

  • samples of water, food and building materials radioactivity assessment;

  •  radioactivity  analyses in population natural exposure;

  •  assessment of natural radioactivity changes as result of human activities;

  •  gross alpha and beta activity determination;

  •  assessment of the natural and artificial radioactive element concentration (U, Th, K-40, Po-210, Pb-210)  in environmental and biological samples by radiochemical separation;

  • assessment of  artificial radioactive element concentration (Cs-134, Cs-137, Sr-90);

  • assessment of internal contamination with natural and artificial radionuclides;

  •  radon concentrations level in indoor air from buildings and workplaces;

  •  recommendations for radiological protection optimization of patient and staff in nuclear diagnostic and interventional radiology.

     3.   Studies:

  • somatic and stochastic effects assessment in occupational ionizing radiation exposure;

  • surveillance of biological effects in population due to a nuclear accident;

  •  risk estimation from natural radioactivity in Moldavia population;

  • surveillance of population radio-induced health effects by food and water radioactivity monitoring;

  • population biological effects assessment due to natural radioactivity;

  •  ionising radiation risk for health estimation for patient and staff in interventional radiology;

  • radio-induced effects monitoring in pediatric patient from CT practices;

  • evaluation of glandular dose and associated risk evaluation in mammography;

  • evaluation of the ionising radiation risk for patients and staff health in diagnostic and therapeutic practices from nuclear medicine.