Unit SOCIAL MEDICINE
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- 10999606
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Massimo Moretti
- Teachers
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- Massimo Moretti
- Milena Villarini (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 14 ore - Massimo Moretti
- 28 ore (Codocenza) - Milena Villarini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- 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
- 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. - 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.
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.
Disease prevention and health promotion: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; health promotion; Ottawa charter; theory and practice of health promotion. Behaviors and health; health education as a strategy of health promotion; theories and practice for behavior change.
Epidemiology and prevention of principal chronic diseases (cardio-vascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases and diabetes). Epidemiology and prevention of accidents and intoxications: prevention of car and home accidents. Epidemiology and prevention of legal (alcohol, tobacco, psychoactive medicines) and illegal drug abuse.
The epidemiologic triad (environment, agent and person). Epidemiology and prevention of the principal infectious diseases: basic immunology and vaccination.