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B029616 - ENVIRONMENTAL PREVENTION
Main information
Teaching Language
Learning Objectives
Course Content
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Type of Assessment
Course program
Suggested readings
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Further information
Academic Year 2021-22
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Biology (BIO)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
MED/42 - HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
21/02/2022 ⇒ 17/06/2022
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Learning Objectives
Enabling students to know and update themselves on the main human health problems related to pollutants and contaminants present in the natural and built environment as well as related to climate change
Course Content (Search our library's catalogue)
To increase the knowledge on environmental determinants of health and their prevention
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons and visits to research laboratory
Type of Assessment
Verification of the acquired knowledge and skills through a written test: critical examination of a scientific paper on a topic of the course program, with open-ended answer to specific questions
Course program
1. Introduction: environment-human interaction and human health effects. Barton and Grant diagram. Public Health tracking. Planetary Boundaries. Concept of causality.
2. Concept of risk. The Life Course Approach for a healthy life. Concept of Evidence Based.
3. Primary and secondary prevention, and health promotion.
4. Epidemiologic methods, particularly applied to environmental problems: descriptive and analitical (case referent and cohort) studies, cross-sectional studies and other methods as cluster analyses; assessment of environmental exposures through diffusional models and measures obtained through biomonitoring.
5. Risk assessment and management: Decree no.152/2006; VAS, VIA, AIA, AUA, VIS; ISO standards; Ecolabel; REACH regulation; CLP regulation; reference values.
6. Pollutants and contaminants: how to deal with the available specific knowledge (public health relevance, available evidences, prevention activities at individual and population level). The precautionary principle.
7. Pollution by xenobiotic chemicals (POPs, Solvents, Heavy metals, Pesticides, Endocrine disruptors, Dioxins and other xenobiotic chemicals, PHAs).
8. Outdoor and indoor air pollution (CO2, SO2, O3, NOx, C6H6, PHAs, Metals, Particulate matter).
9. Water pollution, with particular attention to water for human consumption.
10. Physical pollutants (ionazing and non-ionizing radiation, radon, noise).
11. Waste (urban and special waste, dangerous and non-dangerous waste, incinerators and landfills).
12. Infectious and xenobiotic risks in food.
13. The built environment.
14. The climate change.
15. The Citizen Science and the risk communication.
2. Concept of risk. The Life Course Approach for a healthy life. Concept of Evidence Based.
3. Primary and secondary prevention, and health promotion.
4. Epidemiologic methods, particularly applied to environmental problems: descriptive and analitical (case referent and cohort) studies, cross-sectional studies and other methods as cluster analyses; assessment of environmental exposures through diffusional models and measures obtained through biomonitoring.
5. Risk assessment and management: Decree no.152/2006; VAS, VIA, AIA, AUA, VIS; ISO standards; Ecolabel; REACH regulation; CLP regulation; reference values.
6. Pollutants and contaminants: how to deal with the available specific knowledge (public health relevance, available evidences, prevention activities at individual and population level). The precautionary principle.
7. Pollution by xenobiotic chemicals (POPs, Solvents, Heavy metals, Pesticides, Endocrine disruptors, Dioxins and other xenobiotic chemicals, PHAs).
8. Outdoor and indoor air pollution (CO2, SO2, O3, NOx, C6H6, PHAs, Metals, Particulate matter).
9. Water pollution, with particular attention to water for human consumption.
10. Physical pollutants (ionazing and non-ionizing radiation, radon, noise).
11. Waste (urban and special waste, dangerous and non-dangerous waste, incinerators and landfills).
12. Infectious and xenobiotic risks in food.
13. The built environment.
14. The climate change.
15. The Citizen Science and the risk communication.
Suggested readings
Documents given by the teacher.
Triassi M et al. Igiene Medicina preventiva e del territorio. Edizioni Idelson-Gnocchi Napoli 2021
Triassi M et al. Igiene Medicina preventiva e del territorio. Edizioni Idelson-Gnocchi Napoli 2021
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
This course contributes to the realization of the UN objectives of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development
Agenda for Sustainable Development
Further information
None