- Docente: Angelo Stefanini
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/42
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8473)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is able to show evidence of the knowledge acquired, within the field of its competence, in the field of general hygiene and public health as applied the social and physical environment, the workplace, education, food and nutrition, community medicine, preventive medicine and rehabilitation.
Course contents
1. Introduction to the Course - Health , Hygiene and Public Health.
2. Population health and its determinants.
3. The ' measures of health '.
4. Individual and collective health. Prevention I, II , III, IV (methodologies and tools).
5. Prevention of diseases ( infectious and chronic ) and models of health care.
6. Inequalities in health and health care
7. Primary Health Care (philosophy, strategy, organization ).
8. Prevention and prophylaxis of infectious diseases ( surveillance systems and modes of transmission of infection).
9. Prevention and prophylaxis of infectious diseases. Case study: reflections on public health strategies such as water law.
10. Infectious diseases and socio-economic complexity: an interdisciplinary approach. Case study: Chagas disease.
11. Summary and discussion of the key themes of the course. Exam preparation.
Readings/Bibliography
Suggested (not compulsory) textbook: Igiene e sanità pubblica. Manuale per le professioni sanitarie (Comodo, Maciocco; Carocci, 2011).
Teaching methods
Frontal, interactive lectures, case-studies.
Assessment methods
Learning will be assessed through a written test. Further details about student evaluation modalities will be provided at the inception of the course.
Teaching tools
Teaching will take place through lectures, with the help of power point presentations (which will be made available to students). Priority will be given to interaction and active participation of students. Where possible and appropriate, use will be made of case studies taken from local, national and international contexts.
Links to further information
http://www.medicina.unibo.it/it/corsi/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2013/360285
Office hours
See the website of Angelo Stefanini