Ateneo - UPO

The course offers an overview of the history of hygiene and preventive medicine. It also illustrates the fundamentals of proper public health management.

Slide of the lesson and articles 1)Igiene, Educazione alla Salute e Sanità Pubblica. Vincenzo Romano Spica - Giorgio Brandi. 2)Bonanni, Bonaccorsi, Maciocco. Manuale di igiene e sanità pubblica. Carocci, 2021

- Define actions and implications of hygiene and public health - Define the concept of health - Assess the health needs of a population - Identify intervention priorities - Measure the health risks to which the population under care is exposed - Choose prevention interventions based on scientific evidence of effectiveness - List the main environmental risks to health and discuss the characteristics of the interventions - Discuss the main health risks arising from poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and a sedentary lifestyle - Causes and prevention interventions of infections

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Lectures, plenary discussions, critical reading of scientific articles Some course contents will be conveyed through reading of texts and discussions

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Oral exam

PUBLIC HEALTH CONTEXT - influence of demographic and economic trends on health and public health. HEALTH NEEDS ANALYSIS - epidemiological health indicators: incidence, prevalence, YPLL, YLD, DALY; - research methodologies for needs assessment: prevalence studies; - The Global Burden of Diseases; - health priorities and trends in Italy. RISK ANALYSIS - association indicators in etiological epidemiology: RR, OR, etc.; - attributable risk indicators: RA, QA, and NNT; - the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases and trends; - distal determinants and risk factors; - social inequalities in health; - defining a population's health priorities; PREVENTION INTERVENTIONS - natural history of a health problem and possible interventions; - primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, health promotion, and health education; - the complexity of interventions on human behavior. - evaluation of prevention interventions; - main effective prevention interventions - vaccinations and vaccination plan.

- discuss the main characteristics of the Italian Health System; - identify the main health problems of the Italian population; - identify the main risks facing the Italian population; - perform simple calculations of health status measures; - read a report on the health status of the population; - describe the main risk factors of the Italian population; - identify effective prevention interventions in the main databases; - apply effective primary prevention interventions within the physician's remit; - discuss the critical aspects of primary and secondary prevention interventions; - apply the main rules for preventing infectious diseases.