- Docente: Erica Leoni
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/42
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8485)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course the student: has acquired knowledge of the determinant factors of health and disease; knows the fundamental means to prevent the main infectious and non-infectious diseases, knows the appropriate elements for conducting health educational campaigns.
Course contents
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Measuring the frequency of health events: birth rate, death rate,
incidence and prevalence of diseases, lethality rate.
GENERAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC
DISEASES.
General epidemiology: general aspects. Reservoirs and sources of
infection. Routes of entry and elimination of infective agents.
Direct and indirect transmission (through inanimate vehicles and
vectors) of infectious diseases. Ways in which diseases may appear
in the population (sporadic, endemic, epidemic and pandemic).
BASIC GENERAL PREVENTION.
Aims and methods of prevention. Primary prevention, secondary
prevention, tertiary prevention.
GENERAL PROPHYLAXIS FOR INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES:
Notification of infectious diseases, making diagnosis (direct and
indirect); quarantine measures (isolation in hospital or at home,
health surveillance).
Disinfection and sterilisation using physical methods. Disinfection
using chemical methods. Disinfection with chemical media in gaseous
state.
Vaccine prophylaxis. Constitution, requisites, ways of
administering vaccines; precautions and contraindications.
Seroprophylaxis. Immune sera of animals, human
immunoglobulins.
HOSPITAL HYGIENE: Hospital infections. Hospital waste
HEALTH EDUCATION: Methods of transmitting the message. Planning a health educational campaign targeting individuals, groups, schools
Readings/Bibliography
COMODO N., MACIOCCO G. - Igiene e Sanità Pubblica. Manuale per le professioni sanitarie. Carocci Faber Editore, 2011.
Ricciardi W. - Igiene per le professioni sanitarie. IDELSON GNOCCHI Sorbona, 2015
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination to assess the learning of the various aspects of the subject and evaluate the critical capacity of students
Teaching tools
Video projector, PC
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Erica Leoni