PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTION SCIENCES
| HYGIENE AND HEALTH EDUCATION (1 credits) | ORGANIZATION OF REHABILITATIVE SERVICES (1 credits) |
| OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE (1 credits) |
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The student will have to acquire the essential slight knowledge on the prevention of the infectious diseases and not; to acquire acquaintances of environment hygiene, of hospital worker hygiene, of hygiene to the health; to know the main risk factors tied to the job and daily life. Know the main diseases tied to the professional activity of the physiotherapist and the re-education of gestures in the corrected movement; organization of the rehabilitation services
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Course contents summary
General epidemiology of the infectious disease
- transmission of the infections
- relation between host and parasite
- factors supporting the infections
- tipology of appearance of the infectious illnesses in the population
Preventive medicine
- prevention aims and method
- levels of the preventive intervention: tertiary, secondary, primary prevention
General prevention of non-infectious disease
Infection prevention
- discovery and inactivation of the infection sources
- interruption of the transmission chains
- immune active and passive prevention
- farmacologic prevention
Prevention of the transmissible infections with the blood
- HBV, HDV, HCV, HIV
Hospital infection
Education to the health
- health promotion
- strategies of the sanitary education
- ambient education
Hygiene of the environment
- the drinkable water: gestures on the supplying sources, possibilities of pollution; drinkable criterions, purification methods
- atmospherical pollution
Recommended readings
Igiene – Barbuti S. - Bellelli E.-Fara GM.-Gianmanco G.Ed. Monduzzi ( II edizione)
. Igiene Medicina Preventiva e Sanità Pubblica –
Teaching methods
Oral lesson
Oral exam
