• Introduction to Public Health: public health evolution and current epidemiological background; Epidemiology, statistics and healthcare management; prevention, application fields [2h]
• Methods in Epidemiology: measures; observational and experimental studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses; bias and confounding [2h]
• Epidemiology and prevention of communicable diseases: (i) risk factors, natural history of infectious diseases; (ii) interventions in the whole population: vaccination (planning, effectiveness, misinformation and perceptions, coverage), passive immunoprophylaxis, chemoprophylaxis, disinfection and sterilization, surveillance and notification; (iii) interventions in healthcare settings: organizational settings; prevention of healthcare-associated infections (hand washing, gloves, instruments management, environmental controls, water); (iv) healthcare waste management; basic concepts of environmental public health; basic concepts of food safety) [6h]
• Epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases: (i) risk factors, priority setting (effect, impact, expected efficacy of interventions) ; (ii) Primary and tertiary prevention (health promotion, health education): main risk factors and related interventions (smoking, alcohol, diet - nutrition, physical activity, social factors), health education methodology; (iii) secondary prevention (Screening): criteria, methodology, examples, current and new fields; (iv) Risk assessment: risk scores in clinical practice, new risk biomarkers and ethical issues. [6h]
• Healthcare management: (i) evolution of health systems, sourcing systems, principles of health economics; (ii) healthcare programming and organization models in primary and secondary healthcare (focusing on evidence based practice, risk management, case management, quality of healthcare); (iii) Exercises, Evidence Based Practice: use of bibliographic databases - pubmed [4h]