HYGIENE AND HEALTH EDUCATION
cod. 14480

Academic year 2010/11
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Igiene generale e applicata (MED/42)
Field
Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari
Type of training activity
Characterising
18 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
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Course unit divided into the following partitions:

Integrated course unit module: PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTION SCIENCES

Learning objectives

The student will have to acquire the essential knowledge on the prevention of the infectious diseases and not, to acquire knowledge of environment hygiene, of hygiene hospital worker, of education to the health,and the national and international sanitary organization.

Prerequisites

The student must have completed Microbiology's exam

Course unit content

General prevention of non infectious diseases of social interest
Screening
Health Education
Italian and international health organization
Hospital Infections

Full programme

Epidemiological Methodology. The main measures in epidemiology, type of epidemiological studies. Concept of risk factor and cause of disease. General epidemiology of the infectious diseases
The sources of infection, transmission modality. Favoring factors the appearance of infections. Ways of appearance of the infections in the population. Preventive medicine. The purposes and the methods of the prevention. Levels of preventive participation.The prevention of the infections Discovered and inactivation of infection sources, interruption of the transmission chains; increase of resistance to the infections. General principles of prevention of not infectious disease Tertiary, secondary, primary prevention.
Prevention of the transmissible infections with the blood (HBV, HDV, HCV, HIV)
Prevention of the infections in pregnancy
Hospital infections
Hygiene of the environment
The drinkable water: gestures on the supplying sources, possibilities of pollution; drinkable criterions, purification methods

Bibliography

Barbuti S. - Bellelli E.-Fara GM.-Gianmanco G. Ed. Monduzzi ( II edizione) . Igiene Medicina Preventiva e Sanità Pubblica . Marinelli-Liguori- Montemarano- D¿Amora.- Ed.Piccin (2002)

Teaching methods

Oral lesson
Oral Exam

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

Other information

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