Unit SOCIAL MEDICINE
- Course
- Social service
- Study-unit Code
- 10A00032
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Milena Villarini
- Teachers
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- Milena Villarini
- Hours
- 42 ore - Milena Villarini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline mediche
- Sector
- MED/42
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Introduction to Public Health: concepts of health and disease; health as a human right; factors influencing health; health determinants; social determinants and health. Health promotion and health education.
- Reference texts
- Eudes Lanciotti, Igiene – Medicina sociale e di comunità, McGraw Hill, 2011
- Educational objectives
- To know principles and methods for disease prevention and health promotion in the context of social and health integration.
To know and apply principles of communication and health education.
To know and apply the epidemiologic methods for assessing the health states of a community.
To know the principles for health management, organization and legislation. - Prerequisites
- None.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures on all subjets of the course.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral test (about 20 minutes long), aiming to ascertain the student's knowledge level and communication skills.
- Extended program
- Introduction to Public Health: concepts of health and disease; health as a human right; factors influencing health; health determinants; social determinants and health.
Introduction to Social Medicine: the role of social medicine in public health; social diseases.
Health differences: inequity in health; social differences and health; gender disparities and health; gender medicine and prevention; globalization and health.
Disease prevention and health promotion: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; health promotion.
Behaviors and health; health education as a strategy of health promotion; theories and practice for behavior change.
Models for health systems: the Bismarck model; the Beveridge model; the Italian National Health Service
Basic epidemiology: demography and demographic transition; methods for the assessment of health level of a community. Descriptive, analytical and experimental epidemiology; mortality and morbidity rates; incidence and prevalence; epidemiological transition and health. Epidemiology applied to Social Medicine.
Epidemiology and prevention of principal chronic diseases (cardio-vascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases and diabetes).
Epidemiology and prevention of legal (alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug abuse). T
Epidemiology and prevention of the principal infectious diseases: basic immunology and vaccination.