Ateneo - UPO

General and applied public health, epidemiology and prevention of main diseases, both non-communicable and communicable, organization of the National Health System, Evidence-based Medicine mainly referred to public health, but not limited to.

General and applied hygiene, epidemiology and prevention of the main diseases, both non-communicable and communicable, organization of the Health System, Evidence-based Medicine mainly referred to public health, but not only

To assess and manage health needs and risks of the population being treated

To recognize one's role within the organization in which one operates

To make making decisions based on scientific evidence

Basic statistics and epidemiology

Lessons, class discussion, exercises, analysis of cases, reading scientific papers

The course is associated with the internship of "Field Medicine"

Multiple choice questions based on the presentation of short cases, reading and interpretation of scientific paperes

CONTEXT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- influence of demographic and economic evolution on health and public health;
- role of ethics, industry and citizens;
- influence of the evolution of technology.
ANALYSIS OF HEALTH NEEDS
- epidemiological indicators of health: incidence, prevalence, YPLL, YLD, DALY;
- research methodologies for the assessment of needs: the prevalence study;
- The Global Burden of Diseases;
- priorities and health trends in Italy.
RISK ANALYSIS
- association indicators in etiological epidemiology: RR, OR etc;
- attributable risk indicators: RA, QA and NNT;
- the main FdR for noncommunicable diseases and trends;
- the distal and proximal determinants of health;
- social inequalities in health;
- the definition of the health priorities of a population;
THE PREVENTION INTERVENTIONS
- natural history of a health problem and possible interventions;
- primary and secondary prevention; universal, selective and indicated prevention;
- determinants of human behavior and supporting theories;
- the complexity of interventions on human behavior;
- the evaluation of prevention interventions;
- main effective primary prevention interventions;
- secondary prevention;
- indicators of validity of a diagnostic and screening test;
- length bias, lead-time bias, overdiagnosis;
- characteristics and indication of guidelines of the main cancer screenings;
- hygiene and prophylaxis of infectious diseases;
- epidemiology of infectious diseases;
- Hospital infections;
- vaccinations and vaccination plan.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
- definitions and purpose
- the primary efficacy evaluation studies
- systematic reviews
guidelines and other evidence transfer tools

-Analysis of the state of health of a population
- discuss the main characteristics of the Italian Health System;
- identify the main risks of the Italian population;
- carry out simple calculations of health status measures;
- read a report on the state of health of the population;
- identify effective prevention interventions in the main databases;
- apply effective primary prevention interventions within the competence of the doctor;
-direct towards effective screening;
- direct towards mandatory and recommended vaccinations;
- apply the main rules for the prevention of infectious diseases.
- make decisions on the basis of scientific literature