Unit MICROBIOLOGY AND HYGIENE
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- A000522
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Anna Vecchiarelli
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
HYGIENE
| Code | 50212001 |
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| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Massimo Moretti |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Discipline mediche |
| Academic discipline | MED/42 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian. |
| Contents | Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of diseases. Epidemiology and prevention of infectious and chronic diseases. Health education and health promotion. Passive and active immunization: sera and vaccines. Food hygiene and HACCP. |
| Reference texts | Auxilia F. & Pontello M. Igiene e Sanità Pubblica Piccin, Padova. Ricciardi W. Igiene, Medicina Preventiva e Sanità Pubblica Idelson-Gnocchi, Napoli. |
| Educational objectives | The learning experiences should help students in achieving attitudes and practices related to critical health issues: role of Pharmacists in diseases prevention and health education and promotion; Pharmacists as health experts of the National Health Service (NHS). |
| Prerequisites | None. |
| Teaching methods | Face-to-face lessons. |
| Other information | Teaching support (8 h): Practical training on epidemiology (Dr. Milena Villarini). |
| Learning verification modality | Written + oral exam. |
| Extended program | Introduction to Hygiene and Public Health; concepts of health and disease. Determinants of health. Natural history of disease. Principles of health economics. Health management: National Health Service (NHS), Local Health Units and Hospitals. General disease prevention: health promotion/protection. Levels of disease prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases. Etiologic agent: definition. Routes of transmission of infectious disease agents: sexually transmitted diseases; bloodborne, airborne, vehicle(water)borne and vectorborne transmission. Ectoparasites: Pulex spp. (flea), Pediculus spp. (louse), Pthirus spp. (crab louse), Sarcoptes spp. (dust mite). Arthropod-transmitted diseases. Endoparasites: protozoans (Giardia spp.), flatworms (Taenia spp.) e nematodes (Dracunculus spp., Ascaris spp.). Vector-transmitted parasites: Plasmodium spp. (malaria), Leishmania spp. Principles of disinfection; classification of disinfectants; disinfectants in pharmacy. Sterilization; classification of methods of sterilization; controls of sterilization. Disinfestation and pest control; methods of mosquito control; management and control of pediculosis; rodent prevention and control. Immunoprophylaxis: sera/immunoglobulins and vaccines. Classification of vaccines: inactivated or engineered vaccines and toxoids; whole-cell and fractional vaccines; live attenuated vaccines; new vaccines. Epidemiology and control of selected vaccine-prevented diseases. Vaccinal strategies: control (tetanus), elimination (diphteria), eradication (smallpox) of infectious diseases. Immunization schedule for children; immunization of adults and travellers. Emerging infectious diseases (Legionella pneumophila; Escherichia coli O157:H7). Opportunistic infections. Hospital-acquired infections. Food hygiene; prevention of food-borne diseases; food safety legislation; control of food-borne diseases in pharmacy; HACCP method. Epidemiology and prevention of principal chronic diseases: cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancer, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). CVD: the Framingham cohort. Prevention and control of infarction and ictus. Epidemiology and prevention of cancer. Mutagenesis and carcinogenesis processes. Secondary prevention (early diagnosis) of cancer. Cancer screening test: fecal occult blood (FOB), Pap-test, mammography. Epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Epidemiology and prevention of respiratory diseases: COPD and asthma. Tobacco smoking and health; prevention of (active/passive) smoking-related diseases. Methods of giving up smoking and nicotine replacement therapy; role of pharmacists in anti-smoking efforts. Health education: methods for health promotion (relationship between health and human behavior). Role of the pharmacist in health education and promotion; evidence of effectiveness of pharmacy-based health promotion. New health services in the pharmacy (D.L. n. 153, 3 October, 2009). Oral health; epidemiology and prevention of caries, parodontopathy and oral cancer; principles of oral hygiene. Environmental health; drinking water and health; methods of treatment of drinking water; mineral water and health; drinking water hardness and health. |
MICROBIOLOGY
| Code | GP001728 |
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| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Anna Vecchiarelli |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Discipline mediche |
| Academic discipline | MED/07 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |