HYGIENE
cod. 1002568

Academic year 2016/17
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Igiene generale e applicata (MED/42)
Field
Scienze della prevenzione dei servizi sanitari
Type of training activity
Characterising
14 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Learning objectives

Provide the student with the basic tools and methodology to enable him/her to understand the concepts and contexts for the application of the prevention of infectious and chronic degenerative diseases as well as the fundamentals of the epidemiology applied (concept of risk factor, causality relationship, epidemiological studies)

Prerequisites

None

Course unit content

Hygiene, Public Health Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Full programme

General epidemiology of communicable diseases: Reservoir and Source of the infection, Modes of transmission. The levels of prevention (Primary, Secondary and Tertiary). General Prevention of communicable diseases: Notification, Diagnostic assessment, Isolation and quarantine, Disinfection/sterilization, Active immunization, Passive immunization.
General Prevention of non-communicable diseases. Determinants of health and disease. The methodology of screening, sensibility, specificity and predictive value. Methods in epidemiology and elements of demography. Health indicators. Risk rate (Incidence and Prevalence), Causal Inference (Relative risk, Attributable risk and odds ratio). Classification of the epidemiological studies and some aspects of experimental studies (randomized controlled studies – RCTs).

Bibliography

Igiene, Medicina Preventiva, Sanita' Pubblica Autore: Barbuti,Fara, Giammanco, Baldo, Borella, AAVV , Editore: Edises , Edizione: 2014.
Signorelli. Elementi di Metodologia Epidemiologica. Società Editrice Universo. years of publication 2011

Teaching methods

The course is organized in lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

The method of evaluation consists of an oral exam

Other information

Classroom attendance is highly recommended