Unit SOCIAL MEDICINE
- Course
- Social work
- 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 2020
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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.
Main types of epidemiological studies - 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. - 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; 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.
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, 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.