SCIENZE DELLA PREVENZIONE

Learning Objectives

• Hygene

  Concept of health, determinants of health, health promotion. Disease and its causes. Prevention and control of diseases, levels of prevention. Health demography. Health indicators. Principles of epidemiological methodology. Observational and experimental epidemiological studies. Nursing assistance based on evidence of efficacy. Principles of epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases. Hygiene applied to welfare facilities. Transmission models and measures to prevent major infectious diseases.
  
  Epidemiology and prevention of chronic degenerative diseases.
  
  Management of clinical risk and safety of patients and operators. Risk management in the hospital. Hospital hygiene. Hospital waste management.
  
  Community medicine. Damage to health from wrong lifestyle. Promotion and protection of maternal and child health.
  
  Environmental hygiene: primary prevention and physical environment: atmospheric air and water

• Occupational Medicine

  The aim of the course is to provide information and knowledge about workplace-related pathologies (accidents and illnesses) as well as to become familiar with prevention principles, with particular reference to risk assessment and preventive measure adoption.

  Students will have to learn methods and techniques to collect work history, identify environmental and occupational risks and possible relationships with genetic, demographic, socio-economic, psychological and cultural factors, related to health or illness statuses, as well as to look into the possible non-specific effects of occupational risk factors, especially for degenerative chronic diseases.

  The main etiologically diagnostic aspects of occupational medicine will be dealt with, and so will the epidemiology of con-causally work-related diseases. Also, the most frequent professional diseases and work accidents will be classified. The main analysis method and work risk assessment instruments will be provided, that is limit exposure levels, environmental/biological monitoring and healthcare surveillance. Also, occupational risk in/formation, safety and health law guidelines in work places, primary and secondary prevention of occupational diseases, role and duties of the competent physician will be discussed.

• Information Processing System

  The objectives of this module are focused on learning and the conception of the logic that regulates basic computing, elaboration data, structure, classification and typology of networks.

Detailed Course Content

• Hygene

  Definition, characteristics, contents of hygiene.
  
  Demographic indicators.
  
  Measures of frequency of health events.
  
  Epidemiological studies. Risk assessment.
  
  Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention.
  
  Infectious risk: main measures to eliminate or contain the infectious risk.
  
  Epidemiology and prevention of the most frequent infectious diseases.
  
  Principles of epidemiology and prevention of the main chronic degenerative diseases.
  
  Environmental hygiene: atmospheric air, atmospheric pollution and effects
  
  on human health.
  
  Water: general characteristics, water intended for human consumption.
  
  Health Promotion. Health Organization Names.
  
  Risk management principles
  
  The hospital environment: microclimate, physical, chemical and infectious risk.
  
  Hand hygiene.
  
  Hospital waste management.
  
  Epidemiology and prevention of assistance-related infections.

• Occupational Medicine

  History and evolution of Occupational Medicine: prevention service legislation and organization; work accidents and professional diseases insurance practices. Risk assessment procedure; exposure times and limit levels/values.

  Primary and secondary prevention principles. Healthcare surveillance and duties of competent physician. Biological monitoring procedures. General and individual preventive practices and first aid action organization. Biological risk and vaccinations. Physical risks: noise, vibrations, ionizing-non-ionizing radiations, microclimate and compressed atmosphere. Ergonomy principles: postures and work. Workstation, shift and night work risks. Assessment of risks in manual loads handling and in repetitive movements of upper limbs with associated pathologies. Organizational wellness and its associated work stress. Health promotion in working places.

  Main dust/fibre and professional allergene exposure–related pathologies; indoor and outdoor pollutants. Exposure risks to chemical, mutagen and carcenogenic agents.

  Principles of Industrial Hygiene and hints of Statistics. Risks in the main working cycles. Guidelines on safety and health in working places.

• Information Processing System

  • Information processing systems;
  • Hardware, software and their stratification;
  • Operating Systems: fundamental functions and their evolutions;
  • Bits, Bytes and numbers connected to them;
  • Database;
  • Classification, Type and Network Levels;
  • E-mail & Protocol;

Textbook Information

• Hygene

  "Igiene per le professioni sanitarie" - Autore: E.Lanciotti - Ed. Mc Graw Hill

• Occupational Medicine
  1. David Koh, Ken Takahashi. Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice. 3rd Edition ISBN: 978-981-4329-57-6
  2. Antonio Mutti, Massimo Corradi: "Lezioni di Medicina del Lavoro". Nuova Editrice Berti, 2014 (ISBN 978-88-7364-627-3)
  3. Per Alberto Bertazzi: "Medicina del lavoro". Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2013 (ISBN 978-88-6030-633-3)
  4. Enrico Pira, Canzio Romano, Paolo Carrer: "Manuale di medicina del lavoro". Minerva Medica, 2016 (9788877118431)
• Information Processing System

  Teaching Handouts