Learning objectives
<br />Elements of Public and Corporate Law.<br />Knowledge of the basic concepts relative to epidemiology and the prevention of infectious and chronic degenerative diseases<br />Legislative references and the fundamentals of public health.
Course unit content
<br />Characteristics of the various categories of companies.<br />Economic environment.<br />Corporate Structure:<br />Organisational structure.<br />Principle of cost effectiveness.<br />The management of publicly-owned territorial organisations<br />- Bioethics, ethics and law.<br />- The health care professions: the audiometrist.<br />< P>-The Ethical Code of the Audiometrist. <br /><br />- Overview of Criminal Law.<br />- Overview of Civil Law with specific reference to legal capacity and the capacity to act.<br />- The medical record and certification.<br />- Consent to treatment.<br />- The duty to refer to the Court: report and charge.<br />- Overview of professional responsibility.<br />- The National Health Service.<br />- The Social Security system (Social Benefits and Insurance) with particular emphasis on hypoacusis and deaf-mutism.<br />Definition of hygiene, Public Health:<br />Concept of health.<br />Elements of epidemiological methodology.<br />Epidemiological measures, types of epidemiological study.<br />Epidemiology of deafness.<br />The Risk Factor Concept and the Concept of Cause in disease.<br />General Epidemiology of infectious diseases.<br />Types and levels of preventive intervention.<br />Main prevention principles for non infectious diseases.
Bibliography
<br />Economia Aziendale- G.Airoldi,G.Brunetti,V.Coda,edizione II Mulino,Bologna<br />IGIENE-S.Barbuti,E.Bellelli,G.M.Fara,G.Giammanco Ed.Moruzzi<br />'Le professioni sanitarie (non mediche) - aspetti giuridici, deontologici e medico-legali', Luca Benci, McGraw-Hill, 2002<br />Istituzioni di Medicina Legale, Clemente Puccini, Casa Edetrice Ambrosiana, ultima edizione
