- Docente: Anna Bergamaschi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/42
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Professional education (cod. 8477)
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from Mar 06, 2025 to Apr 24, 2025
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course the student: has acquired knowledge of the determinant factors of health and disease; knows the fundamental means to prevent the main infectious and non-infectious diseases; knows the appropriate elements for conducting health educational campaigns
Course contents
BASIC HEALTH DEMOGRAPHY: Measuring the frequency of health events: birth rate, death rate, incidence and prevalence of diseases, lethality rate.
EPIDEMIOLOGY: Health, risk, disease. Health/disease dynamics. The state of population health. Mental health problem, disability, addiction.
GENERAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC
DISEASES:General epidemiology: general aspects. Reservoirs
and sources of infection. Routes of entry and elimination of
infective agents. Direct and indirect transmission (through
inanimate vehicles and vectors) of infectious diseases. Ways in
which diseases may appear in the population (sporadic, endemic,
epidemic and pandemic).
BASIC GENERAL PREVENTION:Aims and methods of prevention.
Primary prevention, secondary prevention, tertiary
prevention.
GENERAL PROPHYLAXIS FOR INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES:
Notification of infectious diseases, making diagnosis (direct and
indirect); quarantine measures (isolation in hospital or at home,
health surveillance).
Disinfection and sterilisation using physical methods. Disinfection
using chemical methods. Disinfection with chemical media in gaseous
state. Some applications of disinfectants. Antiseptics.
Vaccine prophylaxis. Constitution, requisites, ways of
administering vaccines; precautions and contraindications. Schedule
for compulsory vaccines in newborns.
Seroprophylaxis. Immune sera of animals, human immunoglobulins
(normal and specific).
FOOD HYGIENE.
Foodborne diseases: Clostridium botulinum, salmonella,
Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium perfringens.
HEALTH EDUCATION: Methods of analyzing needs and selectives
objectives, sharing of objectives. Methods of transmitting the
message. Planning a health educational campaign targeting
individuals, groups, schools.
Readings/Bibliography
Bonanni P., Bonaccorsi G., Maciocco G. Manuale di Igiene e Sanità Pubblica. Roma, Carocci Faber, 2021.
Teaching methods
Lectures, guided group work on the planning and implementation of health education programmes, brainstorming.
Assessment methods
Oral examination to assess the learning of the various aspects of the subject and evaluate the critical capacity of students
Teaching tools
Video projector, PC.
Office hours
See the website of Anna Bergamaschi