Teaching institute of public health, Rijeka
Krešimirova 52 a, Rijeka
For clients: PON-PET: 7:00 – 19:30
Contact persons:
Head:
Ph.D. Željko Linšak, dipl. san. ing.
ravnatelj@zzjzpgz.hr
Tel: +385 51 334 530
Mob: +385 91 765 93 88
Deputy head:
prim. Nataša Dragaš Zubalj, DM, univ.spec.sanit.publ., spec. school med
zamjenica@zzjzpgz.hr
About us
Teaching Institute of Public Health of Primorsko-Goranska County is a health institution which conducts public health activities in the area of Primorsko-Goranska County. It has a continuous one hundred years of tradition of its existence and work as it is the successor of the State Royal Station for Chemical Tests, established on 8 April 1900. Today it represents an expert, but also teaching preventative public health institution, which is turning into a university scientific regional institute with the goal of providing a higher level of public health care for the wider region, which besides Primorsko-Goranska County includes the neighbouring counties. Teaching Institute of Public Health is managed by the Primorsko-Goranska County, and it represents one of the four leading Institutes of Public Health (besides Zagreb, Split and Osijek) in Croatia. It operates independently on the level of the county, with the professional coordination by the Croatian Institute of Public Health. The Institute has an integrated quality system which includes: HRN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017, HRN EN ISO 9001:2015, HRN EN ISO 14001:2015, HRN EN ISO 15189:2012, HRN EN ISO 45001:2018 i HRN EN ISO 50001:2018.
Activities
Public health activities include epidemiological measures of control and intervention, supervision and analysis of infectious and non-infectious diseases, public health microbiological activities, analysis of scientific indicators and work in the health department, control over the health safety of foodstuffs, water and general use objects, continuous air quality monitoring, preventative and specific measures for health protection of school children and students, and primary prevention and out-patient treatment of addiction illnesses.
Additional information
Teaching Institute of Public Health of PG County consists of the following organizational departments: Department of Public Health, Department of Environmental Protection and Health Ecology, Department of Epidemiology of Infectious and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Mental Health Protection and Addiction Treatment, Department of School and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Joint Affairs.
7 branch offices – Crikvenica, Delnice, Krk, Opatija, Mali Lošinj, Rab and Cres.
According to the model of similar European institutions, today the Institute carries the title teaching, as it represents the centre for preventative public-health education on a scientific and professional level. The education is conducted by the same expert employees, who operatively carry out the preventative activities and handle data for the needs of scientific and professional studies and projects in primary health care or public health.
