Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Stefano Mattioli
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
Aims of the course:
- To present the general concepts of the occupational medicine;
- To present the most common occupational diseases;
- To introduce the diagnostic framework and the management of selected occupational diseases.
Course contents
PREVENTION AT WORK
Introduction
- Occupational Medicine: History of working conditions.
Occupational risk factors
- Occupational risk factors (physical, chemical, biomechanical, psychosocial risk factors)
- Industrial hygiene: exposure limits, environmental and biological monitoring.
- Workplace risk assessment.
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
Musculoskeletal disorders; occupational diseases due to psychosocial and physical risk factors
Low back disorders in workers exposed to biomechanical risk factors.
- Upper limb musculoskeletal disorders in workers exposed to biomechanical risk factors.
- Stress at work and other psychosocial disorders.
- Disorders in workers exposed to hand-arm vibration and whole body vibration.
- Health effects in workers exposed to noise, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation (high and low frequencies electromagnetic fields, microwaves, laser).
Health effects in workers exposed to chemical agents
Occupational toxicology:
- metals
- aromatic solvents, aliphatic solvents
- pesticides: organophosphates insecticides and herbicides, other herbicides, fungicidides.
- Lung diseases due to exposure to dust and other chemical agents: asthma, allergic alveolitis, silicosis, asbestosis, lung diseases due to inert and irritating dust.
- occupational skin disorders.
Occupational cancer and reproductive health hazards
Occupational cancer in workers exposed to physical, chemical and biological agents.
- Reproductive health hazards (physical, chemical, biological and biomechanical agents in the workplace). Laws concerning pregnant workers, new and breast-feeding mothers.
LEGISLATION OF THE PREVENTION OF RISKS AT WORK
Prevention, health and safety in the workplace
Legislation on the prevention of risks at work. The role of the occupational physician.
- Public and private services for health and safety in the workplace.
Readings/Bibliography
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LaDou J and Harrison R. Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine (5th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education, 2014
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures
Assessment methods
Multiple choice test
Teaching tools
Teaching materials available on AMS Campus
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/docenti/s.mattioli
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Mattioli