HYGIENE AND HEALTH EDUCATION
cod. 14480

Academic year 2007/08
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

<br />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.<br /> <br /><br />

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />Health concept<br /> <br />Epidemiological Methodology<br />The main measures in epidemiology, type of epidemiological studies. Concept of risk factor and cause of disease. <br /> <br />General epidemiology of the infectious disease<br />The sources of infection, transmission modality.<br />Favoring factors the appearance of infections.<br />Ways of appearance of the infections in the population.<br /> <br />Preventive Medicine<br />The purposes and the methods of the prevention. Levels of preventive participation.<br />The prevention of the infections<br />Discovered and inactivation of infection sources, interruption of the transmission chains; increase of resistance to the infections<br /> <br />General principles of prevention of not infectious disease<br />Tertiary, secondary, primary prevention<br /> <br />Prevention of the transmissible infections with the blood<br />(HBV, HDV, HCV, HIV)<br /> <br />Prevention of the infections in pregnancy<br /> <br />Hospital infections<br /> <br />Hygiene of the environment<br />The drinkable water: gestures on the supplying sources, possibilities of pollution; drinkable criterions, purification methods<br /> <br />Education to the 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 – <br />. Marinelli-Liguori- Montemarano- D’Amora.- <br />Ed.Piccin (2002)<br />

Teaching methods

<br />Oral lesson<br /> <br /> <br />Oral Exam

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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