GENERAL HYGIENE AND COMMUNITY PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Scientific knowledge of courses attended during the previous years is considered useful, in particular basic knowledge of statistics
The course aims to provide the students with:
- -The knowledge in terminology, methods and instruments in the fields of hygiene, epidemiology and public health
- -The capacity to develop a scientific methodological approach, using the learned concepts, to participate in planning and doing prevention programs
- the criteria of cause-effect in medicine
- the principal types of epidemiological studies and their validity
- The epidemiological measures and principles of statistical analysis related to the measures.
1. General concepts of public health, hygiene and epidemiology: the concept of health; current epidemiological scenario and classification of diseases; concept of risk; indicators, exposure-effect, cause, health and disease determinants; primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
2. Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases: risk factors; host-parasite relations, sources and reservoirs of infection, pathways of penetration and release of pathogens, mode of transmission; disinfection and sterilization
3. Hospital hygiene: infections in health facilities; management of antibiotic therapy; medical waste management
4. Epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases: cardiovascular diseases and periodontal diseases.
5. Health education: planning of an intervention; methodology
6. Health planning and organization: quality and risk management, errors in healthcare,
7. Epidemiological methodology: The main epidemiological studies: Frequency measurements and association measures. Bias and confoundings. Control methods for confounding.
8. Concepts of nutritional epidemiology: food questionnaires, the EPIC and Moli-sani study
9. Use of bibliographic databases
IGIENE - Medicina Preventiva Sanità Pubblica – II edizione. W. Ricciardi, ed. Idelson Casa Editrice, 2013.
Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità – Elementi di metodologia, II edizione 2015. Manzoli L, Villari P, Boccia A. Edi-ermes
IGIENE - Medicina Preventiva Sanità Pubblica – II edizione. W. Ricciardi, ed. Idelson Casa Editrice, 2013.
Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità – Elementi di metodologia, II edizione 2015. Manzoli L, Villari P, Boccia A. Edi-ermes