General and applied Hygiene
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher:
GEA MARZIA OLIVERI CONTI
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course will allow the student to deepen the concepts on health risk management and its prevention, disease epidemiology and risk assessment, acquiring skills about how to prepare a health and hygiene assessment report.
Course Structure
Lectures with the aid of computer tools useful for teaching (power point, network systems).
Required Prerequisites
none.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is strongly recommended.
Detailed Course Content
Epidemiology, demography and biostatistics approaches. Health determinants. Infectious and chronic degenerative diseases. Prevention interventions. Cause. Risk factor. Prevention for the protection and promotion of community health. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Air pollution. Thermal well-being and microclimate. Prevention interventions in occupational medicine.
Health and the environment. Food chain and food hygiene. Potability of water intended for human consumption. Waste: health, social and environmental risks.
Epidemiology and prophylaxis of infectious diseases: typhoid, hepatitis, influenza, exanthematous diseases, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, tetanus, sexually transmitted diseases.
Epidemiology and prophylaxis of chronic degenerative diseases: atherosclerosis, diabetes, tumors, smoking, alcoholism.
Principles of fertility, birth rate, healthy pregnancy, teratogenesis, early fetal mortality, perinatal mortality, infant mortality.
Maternity assistance in the neonatal and developmental age.
Textbook Information
"Igiene" - Medicina preventiva e del territorio. di Triassi - Aggazzotti - Ferrante • 2015 editore Idelson-Gnocchi “Igiene Medicina sociale e di comunità” di McGraw-Hill , Eudes Lanciotti
- “Igiene” Cesare Meloni- Gabriele Pellissero, Zanichelli. 2007.
- Ildeson-Gnocchi , “Igiene”, Triassi, Agazzotti, Ferrante II ed. 2015.
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The evaluation of the knowledge acquired by students is
carried out through the written test aimed at verifying the learning of the
various aspects of the topic
Elements to be evaluated: relevance of the
answers, quality of their contents, ability to connect with other topics within
the program, ability to report examples, quality of technical language, and
overall expressive ability.
To guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with
current laws, students can request a meeting in order to plan any compensatory
and/or dispensatory measure, according to the educational goals and specific
needs. In this case, it is advisable to contact the CInAP (Centre for Active
and Participated Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or SLD) professor
of the Department where the Degree Course is included.
Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should
the conditions require it
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
You must define the hygiene concept
