Enrollment year
2019/2020
Academic discipline
MED/42 (GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (27/09/2021 - 14/01/2022)
Lesson hours
32 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic epidemiology and basic statistics
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide the main cognitive and cultural elements of the hygiene, preventive medicine and public health, with particular reference to their application to medical sciences, and their professional and social relevance. At the end of the course the student must have acquired the necessary knowledge to understand health indicators, carry out useful analyzes to identify the health needs of a population and plan implementation and monitoring of health policies and public health activities with a focus on the prevention of communicable diseases. and not.
Course contents
• PREVENTION, SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL OF HEALTH RISKS
- General concepts of prevention and public health
- Epidemiological methodology
- Health indicators and surveillance systems
- Health emergencies
- Health education and health promotion
• VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES (VPD) AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- VPD diseases of childhood, adolescence, adults and the elderly
- Vaccination calendars and strategies
- Non-DVT communicable diseases
- Food poisoning and HACCP
- Healthcare associated infections (HAIs), antibiotic resistance, clinical risk
• HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAMMING
- Legislation and health planning
- The national health system
- Primary care and family medicine
• DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
- Epidemiology and prevention of diseases with high social impact
- Determinants of health and disease
- Accidents, injuries and behavioral pathologies
- Environmental risks, environmental policies and sustainable development
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons with power point presentation. During the lessons, student interaction and classroom debate is highly encouraged.
Reccomended or required readings
Signorelli C, Capolongo, Odone. Igiene, epidemiologia e sanità pubblica (Secrets, VII EDIZIONE). SEU, Roma, 2019
C. Guest; W. Ricciardi Manuale Oxford di sanità pubblica
Assessment methods
Exam with a written and oral component
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
Università di Pavia - Offerta formativa