L'INTEGRAZIONE SOCIO-SANITARIA
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Roberto VIGNERAExpected Learning Outcomes
The educational objectives associated with the conduct of the course are outlined as the realization of a learning plan aimed at presenting, according to the peculiarities of the training process offered to the student of the Specialist Degree Course in Organization of Social Service, the theoretical-conceptual and empirical orientation through which to operationally identify the problems that characterize social and health integration in contemporary societies.
Course Structure
The teaching will be carried out through lectures, during which the topics present in the program will be presented and deepened.
Required Prerequisites
Specific prerequisites are not required, except those associated with the possession of a good preparation in the topics concerning the various phases of redefining social welfare policies in Italy.
Attendance of Lessons
Class attendance is not compulsory. However, it is recommended for the insights it can guarantee.
Detailed Course Content
Taking into account the profiling of the Master's Degree Course (LM87) within which this teaching will be given, with particular reference to the role and functions that the sociologist and social worker take on in the context of this integrative process, the topics included in the teaching program will be: the definition, the principles and the regulatory framework of reference for social and health integration; the actors and levels of this integrative process; institutional integration; program agreements, service conference and conventions; the planning of socio-health integration; management integration; the delegation; the socio-health district; the relevance of the information system; team work; the case management; social-health integration in some peculiar intervention areas; social-health integration and chronic-degenerative disease.
Textbook Information
Text 1: Bissolo G. Fazzi L., Costruire l'integrazione sociosanitaria, Carocci, 2012.
Text 2: Bartholini I., Il sistema sanitario siciliano, Rubbettino, 2023.
Text 3: Barbagli M., Alla fine della vita, Mulino, 2018.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The models of orientation to structures and health services; The incidence of cultural components; Technical culture and secular culture. | Lecture notes |
| 2 | The HBM The HRA; The four models of Helping and Coping; The redefinition of welfare models in health care. | Lecture notes |
| 3 | The crisis of sustainability of welfare; Transitions related to this crisis; The demographic transition; The epidemiological transition; The socio-economic transition. | Text 1; Text 2. |
| 4 | The need to integrate health care: beyond the fragmentation and inhomogeneity of welfare; Social and health integration as a new paradigm. | Text 1; Text 2. |
| 5 | The key terms: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation; The key terms: integration, continuity and coordination; New scenarios of assistance in time and space. | Text 1; Text 2. |
| 6 | The redefinition of health care objectives; The organization of new care pathways; From cure to care: from healing to quality of life. | Text 1; Text 2. |
| 7 | Visions of fragmentation; Institutional actors: State, Regions, Local Authorities, Health Authorities; Visions of fragmentation; Sources of funding: Service producers; Pressure groups. | Text 1; Text 2. |
| 8 | Social-health integration and social networks; Social-health integration and chronic-degenerative disease; Palliative care. | Text 1; Text 2;Text 3. |
| 9 | The characteristics of social complex interventions: socio-health integration and systemic complexity; Social and health integration and cultural mediation; The multi-ethnic patient; PAT and PdZ; The role of the Districts. | Text 1; Text 2. |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The examination will consist of a written test, with open questions. To answer the questions the student will have max 120 min available. That is, with N = number of questions asked, a necessary but not sufficient condition to pass the examination will be to answer N-1 questions. Naturally, the maximum score of the evaluation (30/30) will be acquired only by respecting the necessary, but not sufficient, requirement to answer the totality of the questions. The results of the test (student's registration number and grade) will be entered into the Studium platform (Documents section) as soon as possible, and in any case guaranteeing the margin of time of one week from the beginning of the following session. Within 3 (three) days of publication, the student must communicate to the teaching holder, through a certified entry channel (PEC, UNICT Portal, etc.) his/her decision to withdraw from the test. After this deadline, the exam will be recorded in the electronic report.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
The reasons for the crisis of sustainability of the welfare;
The need to integrate health care: beyond the fragmentation and inhomogeneity of welfare;
Social and health integration as a new paradigm;
The key terms: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation;
The key terms: integration, continuity and coordination;
New scenarios of assistance in time and space;
The redefinition of health care objectives;
The organization of new care pathways;
From cure to care: from healing to quality of life;
Visions of fragmentation;
Institutional actors: State, Regions, Local Authorities, Health Authorities;
Visions of fragmentation;
Sources of funding: Service producers;
Pressure groups;
Social-health integration and social networks;
Social-health integration and chronic-degenerative disease: palliative care.