Ateneo - UPO

- Concept of health and disease
- Health education
- principles of health education
- lines of approach to health education
- bodies and operators involved in health education;
- analysis of needs and priorities in the field of health education
- planning in health education
- hand washing
- Oral hygiene
- Aids for dental hygienists
- the treatment of health facilities
- the sanitation of environments

Slide of the lesson

- define the concepts of health and health education;
- identify the fundamental stages of planning educational interventions;
- identify the strategies and techniques to be adopted in the health education of the individual and the community;
- choose and use relevant and effective written communication techniques;
- describe uses, advantages/disadvantages of the materials that the health worker can use and produce for a health education intervention;
- plan and implement an information intervention on health issues.

The student must have the essential knowledge of hygiene and preventive medicine.

Slides and video

Students with disabilities or with Specific Learning Disorders (DSA) or with
Special Educational Needs (SEN) may request specific services and tools dedicated to them
by contacting the Career Development and Coordination Staff and Services for Students and
by consulting the dedicated page of the University website: https://uniupo.it/it/servizi/servizi-studenti-
disabled-and-dsa
Students with disabilities, DSA, BES, once they have contacted the University Staff,
they can contact the teacher in charge of the course in relation to the declination of
examination methods, regarding the teaching aspects.

The exam consists of a written test with 10 multiple choice questions.
The test is considered passed if the student answers at least 6 questions correctly.

-The concept of health and disease, how it has changed over time until today
-Health education: what it means, what role it plays today within public health. - principles of health education;
- lines of approach to health education;
- bodies and operators involved in health education;
- analysis of needs and priorities in the field of health education;
- planning in health education
- hand hygiene: levels, procedures and scientific evidence from healthcare workers
- Oral hygiene_ Scientific evidence and epidemiological data
- Aids for dental hygienists: new scientific and practical evidence
- the treatment of health facilities
- the sanitation of environments

The student should habe the knowledge regarding health education and its main uses in the healthcare sector. Student should possess the basic skills and competences for planning an health education intervention.