Unit HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- 65003512
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Massimo Moretti
- Teachers
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- Massimo Moretti
- Milena Villarini
- Hours
- 77 ore - Massimo Moretti
- 4 ore - Milena Villarini
- CFU
- 11
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline mediche
- Academic discipline
- MED/42
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- Epidemiologic methods. 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. Health and disease. Determinants of health. Natural history of disease.
Epidemiology: definition and scope. Rates of morbidity and mortality. Mortality tables. Population pyramids.
Epidemiology: principles and methods. Study design: Observational and experimental epidemiology.
Ecological studies. Cross-sectional studies. Measures of disease frequency: prevalence and incidence. Causal and/or noncausal association.
Analytical epidemiology: cohort studies and case-control studies. Evaluation of relative risk (RR) and odds-ratio (OR); attributable risk.
Experimental epidemiology: randomized controlled trials and megatrials. Pharmacoepidemiology.
Evidence-based medicine: systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Principles of health economics. Health management: National Health Service (NHS), Local Health Units and Hospitals.
Disease prevention: health promotion/protection. Levels of disease prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Health education: methods for health promotion (relationship between health and human behavior).
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.
Epidemiology and control of high priority sexually transmitted infections; epidemiology and control of selected vaccine-prevented diseases; epidemiology and control of air-borne infectious diseases; epidemiology and control of water-borne infectious diseases; epidemiology and control of food-borne infectious diseases; zoonotic diseases.
Oral health; epidemiology and prevention of caries, parodontopathy and oral cancer; principles of oral hygiene.
Prevention of infectious diseases; principles of immunology;. classification of vaccines; inactivated or engineered vaccines and toxoids; whole-cell and fractional vaccines; live attenuated vaccines; new vaccines.
Immunization schedule for children; immunization of adults and travellers; immunoglobulins.
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.
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; epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD); principal risk factors; the Framingham cohort; prevention and control of infarction and ictus; role of pharmacist in the prevention and control of CVD.
Epidemiology and prevention of cancer; the carcinogenesis and mutagenesis processes; principal cancer risk factors; tobacco smoking and health; prevention of smoking-related diseases; methods of giving up smoking and nicotine replacement therapy; role of pharmacist in anti-smoking efforts.
New horizons of epidemiology; molecular epidemiology and application in cancer detection and prevention.
Epidemiology and prevention of respiratory diseases; prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and asthma; role of pharmacist.
Epidemiology and prevention of road and home accidents: role of pharmacist.
Environmental health; drinking water and health; methods of treatment of drinking water; mineral water and health; drinking water hardness and health.
Relationship between health and human behavior; the role of health education as a strategy in health promotion and disease prevention; health promotion.
Environmental health; drinking water and health; methods of treatment of drinking water; mineral water and health; drinking water hardness and health.
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).
Methods for community assessment, evaluation and research; measuring health and disease; principles of demography; demographic transition and health.