Ateneo - UPO

The course provides an overview of the history of hygiene and preventive medicine and their application in healthcare settings. It covers the epidemiological transition of diseases and the interpretation of epidemiological data. Basic epidemiological concepts, prevalence, incidence, and relative risk. The evidence pyramid and how to interpret a scientific article. Prevention and health promotion, with particular focus on healthy lifestyles, especially nutrition and physical activity.

Lecture slides 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 is exposed - Choose prevention interventions based on scientific evidence of effectiveness - Discuss the main health risks resulting from poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and a sedentary lifestyle - Causes and prevention interventions for infections - Understand infectious diseases and their transmission modes - Understand the main screening and vaccination campaigns

Basic knowledge of descriptive statistics

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

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Written exam with 15 questions with multiple choice.

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.

- identify the main health problems of the Italian population; - identify the main risks facing the Italian population; - perform simple calculations of health status measures; - describe the main risk factors of the population; - identify effective prevention interventions in the main databases; - implement effective primary prevention interventions; - discuss the critical issues of primary and secondary prevention interventions; - apply the main rules for preventing infectious diseases.