Abstract

Significance for public healthThe aim of all radiological methods as well as the public health is to lower the mortality and morbidity of individual diseases and thus elongate a patient’s life. The public health and the Radiation Protection share many of the same aims. The main aim is patient-oriented, and it is about minimizing negative biological effects of the ionizing radiation in medical examinations. The second aim is workers-oriented, who work with the source of the ionizing radiation. This means, that it is a cooperation between radiation protection, public health and occupational health. Public health can help to minimize the exposure of risk factor – ionizing radiation or to deal with quality in health care – in radiology. The can to cooperate in obtaining the necessary information for evidence-based medicine that is an integral part of all medical disciplines, including radiology and radiobiology.

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