78843 - Risk Assessment

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences (cod. 8878)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is able to known principles and methodologies for evaluating cancer risk in whole population and workers.

Course contents

The course will be held during the second semester (between March and April)

Main subjects:

DNA damage

  • Chemical agents
  • Physical agents
  • Biological agents
  • Carcinogens

Genetics and health risk assessment.

  • technological evolution in nucleic acid sequencing platforms and its bio-medical impact
  • impact of the new technologies in health assessment and prevention: risks and opportunities

Risk assessment in alcool abuse disorders

Epidemiology of Obesity and Diabetes

  • mechanisms linking excessive caloric intake and insulin resistance
  • obesity and diabetes health risk assessment

Vaccines in health protection

Readings/Bibliography

At the beginning of the integrated course (I.C.), students will receive indication on updated didactic materials produced in electronic format by other professors teaching General pathology (MED/04) in different graduate courses. These materials are stored on AMS Campus AlmaDL University of Bologna website: http://campus.unibo.it/ . Username and password are those given to each student of the University of Bologna.

Moreover, ad hoc software programs will be made available

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lessons and practices on computers

Assessment methods

Oral final examination aims to evacuate achieving of didactic objectives and therefore in the depth of knowledge as to general pathology:

- Molecular pathology

- Cellular pathology

- tissue pathology

- organ diseases

and risk assessment with particular emphasis on pathological effects like: mutagenesis and carcinogenesis by chemical, physical and biological agents.

Final vote takes into account the synthesis of final evaluations of different subjects belonging to the I.C. of Risk Evaluation. Each single evaluation is integrated in order to obtain the unique final vote (max performance 30 points). Such vote is the average of votes obtained on specific questions on subjects and main objectives of the I.C. examination is passed if votes in each subjects are not lower than 18 points.

Teaching tools

Video (multimedial) and overhead projectors, computers and softwares. For slides, see AMS Campus.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Garagnani