GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE
cod. 14374

Academic year 2007/08
1° 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
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.5 credits
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Integrated course unit module: OBSTETRICS

Learning objectives

<br />Students must acquire acquaintances of epidemiology and prophylaxis of  infectious diseases.Moreover the student must  acquire knowledge of the possible related risks.infection for partorient woman  and of the possible professional  

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Course unit content

<br />Concept health <br />Epidemiology<br />Definition and within of application<br /> General epidemiology of infectious disease<br />Origin of infections,ways of transmission .<br />Factors favoring  the appearance of infections.<br />Ways of  appearance of infections in the population.<br /> Preventive Medicine<br />Purposes and the methods of the prevention<br />Prevention of infections<br />Discovery and inactivation of infection sources, interruption of  transmission chains; increase of resistance to infections<br /> General principles of prevention of not infectious disease<br />Tertiary, secondary, primary prevention<br /> Prevention  blood transmissible infections (HBV, HDV, HCV, HIV)<br /> Prevention of  infections during pregnancy<br /> Hospital infections<br /> Hygiene of environment<br />Water quality: possible ways of pollution; purification methods<br /> Education to health and sanitary organization<br /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

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

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