The course GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE is structured in 15 lessons for a total of 30 hours concerning preventive medicine. The course will focus on the following issues:
1. Basic concepts of public health: concept of health; historical data and current epidemiological background; concept of risk; indicators, exposure-effect, determinants of health and illness; prevention
2. Methods in epidemiology: measures and studies; bias and confounding
3. Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases: risk factors; host-parasite relationships, source and reservoir of infection, portal of entry and exit, mode of transmission; disinfection and sterilization. Hospital hygiene: Healthcare-associated infections; healthcare waste management; focus on SARS-CoV-2 infection
4. Environmental public health and food safety: physical and chemical pollutants and environmental compartments; food contamination with biological factors
5. Epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases: risk factors, health education, methodology; risk assessment; screening
6. Quality and risk management: healthcare management; risk management and errors in healthcare practice; evidence-based practice and bibliographic databases