IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES

Professor: Roberta ZONI
Academic discipline: Igiene generale e applicata (MED/42)
Field: Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari
Type of training activity: Characterising

16 hours
of face-to-face activities

2 credits

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Integrated course unit module: ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE AND OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

Learning objectives

Provide the student with the basic knowledge about the interpretation of epidemiological data, the epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases and prevention measures aimed at their control.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Health definition and health/illness factors.
Hygiene definition and aims.
General epidemiology: principles of epidemiological methods, measures and epidemiological studies
General prevention: different prevention levels
General principles of epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases.
Epidemiology and prevention of specific parenteral, airborne and fecal-oral transmitted infections.
Nosocomial infections.
Epidemiology and prevention of non-infectious diseases.
Principles of environmental hygiene.

Full programme

Health definition and health/illness factors: distal and proximal factors.
Hygiene definition and aims.
General epidemiology: definition and sources of epidemiological data: descriptive epidemiological measures (crude, specific and standardized rates); Epidemiologic measures of risk; Observational epidemiological studies (case-control, ecological, transversal and cohort studies) and experimental studies.
General prevention: different prevention levels
General principles of infectious diseases epidemiology: host-parasite relationship, sources and reservoirs of infection, transmission mode, occurrence of infectious diseases in populations
Principles of infectious diseases prevention: diagnosis, notification, isolation; disinfection and sterilization; Active immunoprophylaxis, different types of vaccines and vaccination strategies. Passive immunoprophylaxis. Chemoprophylaxis.
Principles of epidemiology and prevention of nosocomial infections.
General non-infectious disease epidemiology and prevention: risk factors and their removal. Protective factors. Screening.
Principles of environmental hygiene with particular reference to water: supply sources, main contaminants and their origin, quality standard for drinking water, water treatment techniques.

Bibliography

Carlo Signorelli
Igiene Epidemiologia Sanità pubblica
Secrets
Società editrice Universo

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