Unit GENERAL HYGIENE
- Course
- Mobility and sports science
- Study-unit Code
- 50350805
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Chiara De Waure
- Teachers
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- Chiara De Waure
- Hours
- 40 ore - Chiara De Waure
- CFU
- 5
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Biomedico
- Academic discipline
- MED/42
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Definition of health and public health, definition and classification of health determinants and preventive interventions. The role of epidemiology in public health. Epidemiology and prevention of communicable and non communicable diseases. Health systems and organization.
- Reference texts
- Ricciardi W et al. [Editor]. Igiene per le lauree triennali e magistrali. Idelson Gnocchi 2019
- Educational objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to analyse population health and needs and to properly use preventive interventions.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of secondary school biology
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Other information
- Learning verification modality
- Written test
- Extended program
- Definition of health and public health, definition and classification of health determinants. Natural history of disease. Prevention: definition, aims, levels (primary, secondary and tertiary) and methods. The role of the epidemiology in the health planning: epidemiological measures and approaches to the study of health. Epidemiology and prevention of communicable diseases: direct (disinfection, sterilization, notification, contingency measures, diagnostic assessment, vaccines) and indirect methods. Epidemiology and prevention of foodborne diseases: food hygiene. Epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases: health education and promotion and screening. Environmental hygiene: air pollution, waste disposal, water hygiene, indoor hygiene). History and development of the Italian national health service. Organization of the Italian health system.