Unit HYGIENE AND HEALTH EDUCATION
- Course
- Sciences of education
- Study-unit Code
- 40700076
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Rossana Pasquini
- Teachers
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- Rossana Pasquini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Rossana Pasquini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline didattiche e per l'integrazione dei disabili
- Academic discipline
- MED/42
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Provide conceptual and methodological knowledge of the factors of health and disease of human population and actions on disease prevention and health promotion, with particular reference to educational aspects
- Reference texts
- GOLDSTEEN RAYMOND L., GOLDSTEEN KAREN., DWELLE TERRY. Introduction to Public Health, Second Edition: Promises and Practice. Editore: Springer Publishing Company, 2014
or
GILLAM STEPHEN, YATES JAN, BADRINATH PADMANABHAN. Essential Public Health - Theory and Practice. Editore: Cambridge University Press , Edizione: II 6/2012 , Volume: Unico
or
WALLACE ROBERT. Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Editore: Mcgraw-hill Inglese , Edizione: XV 10/2007 ,Volume: Unico
2. MATERIAL PROVIDE BY THE TEACHER - Educational objectives
- Acquire adequate knowledge of the factors of health and disease and actions for prevention and health promotion, with particular reference to the educational aspects in public and private structures which provide social and health services
Learn the basic principles and methods in order to program interventions of education / promotion of health to be able to develop, realize, manage and evaluate educational processes - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know to tackle the course, students must have the basic notions of the human body and the relationships between man and environment, notions that the student should have already acquired in his school curriculum.
This precondition is valid both for attending and non-attending students - Teaching methods
- Classroom lessons on all topics discussed
- Other information
- The attendance at lectures is not compulsory, but is highly recommended
Receiving students for explanations and clarifications, Tuesday 15:30 to 17:30. Dipartimento di Filosofia, Scienze Sociali, Umane e della Formazione - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral and/or a written test.
Oral test consists on an interview of about 15-30 minutes long aiming to ascertain the knowledge level and the understanding capability acquired by the student on theoretical and methodological contents as indicated on the program. The oral exam will also test student communication skills and his autonomy in the organization and exposure of the theoretical topics.
The written test consists of the solution of 30 multiple choice test. The test has a duration of no more than 45 minutes and is designed to evaluate the ability to correctly apply the theoretical knowledge, the understanding of the issues proposed and the ability to communicate in written form - Extended program
- Introduction to the discipline. The concepts of health and disease, evolution of the concept of health, the natural history of the disease. The determinants of health, social inequalities
Definition and objective Epidemiology. Epidemiological methods for the evaluation of the health / disease.
Definition and objectives of disease prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary.
Principles of Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases. Host-parasite relationship: contagion, infection, disease. Ways of transmission of infectious diseases: sexual/ parenteral, aerial, fecal-oral; zoonoses. Interruption of transmission, immune prophylaxis
Principles of Epidemiology and Prevention of Chronic degenerative diseases. Risk factors: genetic, behavioral, environmental.
Health Promotion. Definition, concepts, principles. Application methods. Target areas. The functions of the various actors. Intersectorality. Integration. The operational setting
Health Education. From to healthcare education to health education: general concepts, definitions and operational areas
Design of interventions health education