Learning objectives
Provide the student with the basic tools and methodology to enable him/her to understand the concepts and contexts for the application of the prevention of infectious and chronic degenerative diseases as well as the fundamentals of the epidemiology applied (concept of risk factor, causality relationship, epidemiological studies)
Course unit content
<br /><br />GENERAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOURCES OF INFECTION, ROUTES OF PENETRATION AND ELIMINATION, CHAINS OF CONTAGION, GENERAL PROPHYLAXIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, REPORTING, ISOLATION, DISINFECTION AND STERILISATION, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS, CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS.<br />OVERVIEW OF GENERAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NON INFECTIOUS DISEASES PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NON INFECTIOUS DISEASES, SCREENING, DEFINITION, CHARACTERISTICS OF A SCREENING TEST, SENSITIVITY, SPECIFICITY AND PREDICTIVE VALUES, SCREENING CAMPAIGNS AND EFFICACY EVALUATIONS<br />EPIDEMIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY OVERVIEW OF HEALTHCARE DEMOGRAPHY. SOURCES OF DATA, MEASURES IN EPIDEMIOLOGY, HEALTHCARE AND HEALTH INDICATORS, RATES AND PROPORTIONS (INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE), RISK MEASURES AND CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP (RELATIVE RISK, ATTRIBUTABLE RISK, ODDS RATIO), EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES: CLASSIFICATION, OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES (DESCRIPTIVE, ANALYTICAL), EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES WITH ETHICAL AND PRIVACY ASPECTS. SPECIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SOME INFECTIOUS DISEASES: RESPIRATORY VIROSIS, VIRAL HEPATITIS, HIV.
Bibliography
<br /><br />Barbuti, Bellelli, Fara, Gianmanco. Igiene Monduzzi Editore 2002<br /><br />Signorelli. Igiene Epidemiologia Sanità Pubblica. Società Editrice Universo. 2006 (III edition)<br /><br />Signorelli. Elementi di Metodologia Epidemiologica. Societa Editrice Universo. 2005 (VI Edition)
