00699 - Occupational Medicine

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)

Learning outcomes

The students are expected to have a good kowledge of the normative and basic principles of work safety and health, workers' health surveillance, fitness for work and risk assessment.

Course contents

The course is divided into three parts (4 hours each).

Part A: introductory lectures that will focus on the general concepts and on the methods applied in the field of Occupational Medicine

  • Introduction to occupational medicine (history, statistics, scientific framework, aims)
  • Reference legislative frame. The role of the occupational physician.
  • Classification of occupational risk factors (physical, chemical, biological agents, biomechanical and relational factors).
  • Introduction to occupational toxicology and hygiene

Part B: Occupational diseases

  • Work-related muscoloskeletal disorders
  • Occupational cancer
  • Stress-related diseases (bullying, mobbing, and burnout)
  • Work, fertility and pregnancy

Part C: Occupational risk factors in the healthcare setting

  • Biomechanical overload
  • Chemical risk
  • Biological risk
  • Skin diseases and asthma

Specific risks in a chemical laboratory.

Readings/Bibliography

Readings/Bibliography

Pira, Romano, Carrer. Manuale di Medicina del Lavoro. Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2017.

Alessio and Apostoli. Manuale di Medicina del Lavoro e Igiene Industriale per Tecnici della Prevenzione. Piccin-Nuova Libraria, 2014.

Aw TC et al. Poket Consultant: Occupational Health. Fifth Edition, Blckwell Publishing, 2007

Agius RM et al. Practical Occupational Medicine. Second edition. Hodder Arnold Publication, 2006

Teaching methods

Lectures will involve Power Point presentations, videos and images of jobs.

Scientific papers analysis.


Assessment methods

The final exam will consist of a written test (2 questions).


Teaching tools

Lectures will involve Power Point presentations.

Videos and images will be presented.

Office hours

See the website of Roberta Bonfiglioli