- Docente: Carlotta Zunarelli
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/44
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)
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
- Introduction to occupational medicine (history, statistics, scientific framework, aims)
- Reference legislative frame. The role of the occupational physician.
- Classification of occupational risk factors. Introduction to occupational toxicology and hygiene.
- Work-related muscoloskeletal disorders
- Occupational cancer
- Respiratory diseases
- Work, fertility and pregnancy
- Biomechanical overload
- Biological risk and immunoprophylaxis
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching material
https://osha.europa.eu/it/themes
Pira, Romano, Carrer. Manuale di Medicina del Lavoro. Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2017.
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 assignment.
The exam will focus on the issues indicated in the "Course contents" section.
Students are asked to answer at n.16 multiple choice questions.
To get the maximum final score (30/30 cum laude) students should answer correctly to 16 questions.
Time for completing the test: 30 minutes.
Teaching tools
Lectures will involve Power Point presentations.
Videos and images will be presented.
Office hours
See the website of Carlotta Zunarelli