Ateneo - UPO

-Concept of health and changing during centuries - The natural history of the disease and the role of prevention and health promotion - Different types of prevention and health promotion - Concepts of disease determinants and risk factors - Concepts and measures of the impact of a prevention intervention - The Global Burden of Disease project - Role and need for evidence of effectiveness - Sources of evidence: Medline and the Cochrane library - The path from evidence production to practice -Study designs - Systematic reviews and public health guidelines - Nutrition and physical activity - Mediterranean diet -Plant Based Diet - Planetary Diet - Ketogenic Diet

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Understand the different concepts of prevention and their role within healthcare interventions - understand and discuss the concept of health promotion and the main interventions that promote health -extract data from the tools provided by the Global Burden of Disease to estimate the need for prevention in a specific population - identify effective health promotion interventions for a healthy diet using scientific research databases - describe the main guidelines related to a healthy diet and physical activity.

Basic epidemiology and medical statistics Human nutrition

Lectures, discussion of cases, research in literature databases and reading of articles and interactive games to verify learning

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The exam of the module "Promotion of healthy diet and disease prevention" consists of 10 multiple choice questions relating to the topics covered and the material used during the course.The exam of the integrated course "Impact of diet on human health" consists of 34 questions (10 multiple choice questions for the modules: Promotion of healthy diet and disease prevention, Introduction to statistical and epidemiological methods and endocrine and metabolic disease and 4 (3 open and 1 multiple choice) for the nutrition in internal medicine: implication for health and disease module. The pass mark will be achieved if the student correctly answers 60% of the exam questions of the entire integrated course

- The origins of scientific research on health and the causes of diseases - The main objectives of scientific research - The natural history of disease - Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention - Health promotion - Concepts of disease determinants and risk factor - Integration of gender dimension: Gender differences in health - Measures of association - Concepts and measures of the impact of a prevention intervention - The Global Burden of Disease project - Role and need for evidence of effectiveness - Sources of evidence: Medline and the Cochrane library - Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: How to conduct a review and formulate a PICO question - The path from evidence production to practice - Public health guidelines - Choices that promote health - Nutrition and physical activity: WHO guidelines - Mediterranean diet -Plant Based Diet - Planetary Diet - Ketogenic Diet Gender mainstreaming: approaches to grant equal benefits in actions and activities for women and mens and for eliminating gender inequalities.

Development of the ability to identify health and prevention needs in a population. Literature search to identify effective health promotion interventions. Skill of understand the role of nutrition and physical activity as preventive strategies