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B014496 - GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGENE
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Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2018 - 6-years Single Cycle Degree in SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Experimantal and Clinical Medicine
Modulo di sola Frequenza of
Scientific Area
MED/42 - HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Credits
8
Teaching Hours
96
Teaching Term
02/03/2020 ⇒ 12/06/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Giudizio Finale
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
The teaching will be in Italian
Course Content
Definition of health, wellness, illness and disease illness
Health Promotion
Demography and epidemiology: basic concepts
Methodology of primary and secondary prevention
Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases at considerable professional importance.
Cancers of the mouth and the most frequent in the women and in the men.
Food lifestyle, obesity and chronic degenerative diseases
Health Promotion
Demography and epidemiology: basic concepts
Methodology of primary and secondary prevention
Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases at considerable professional importance.
Cancers of the mouth and the most frequent in the women and in the men.
Food lifestyle, obesity and chronic degenerative diseases
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Sildes fo the lessons will be provided.
Suggested texts:
• Comodo, Maciocco. Igiene e Sanita' Pubblica – Manuale per le professioni sanitarie. Carocci Faber, Roma.
• Lanciotti E. Igiene per le professioni sanitarie. Mc Graw Hill, Milano.
• Barbuti, Bellelli, Fara, Giammanco. Igiene e Medicina Preventiva. Vol.1: Igiene, Metodologia Epidemiologica ed Epidemiologia Clinica. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna.
• Manzoli, Villari, Boccia. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità.
• Elementi di metodologia. Edi-Ermes, Milano
• Lopalco, Tozzi. Epidemiologia facile. Il pensiero scientifico editore, Roma.
• Signorelli. Elementi di metodologia epidemiologica. Società Editrice Universo, Roma
• Ricciardi. Igiene, Medicina preventiva, Sanità Pubblica. IDELSON-GNOCCHI, Napoli
• Jekel, Elmore, Katz. Epidemiologia, Biostatistica e Medicina preventiva. EDISES, Napoli
Suggested texts:
• Comodo, Maciocco. Igiene e Sanita' Pubblica – Manuale per le professioni sanitarie. Carocci Faber, Roma.
• Lanciotti E. Igiene per le professioni sanitarie. Mc Graw Hill, Milano.
• Barbuti, Bellelli, Fara, Giammanco. Igiene e Medicina Preventiva. Vol.1: Igiene, Metodologia Epidemiologica ed Epidemiologia Clinica. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna.
• Manzoli, Villari, Boccia. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità.
• Elementi di metodologia. Edi-Ermes, Milano
• Lopalco, Tozzi. Epidemiologia facile. Il pensiero scientifico editore, Roma.
• Signorelli. Elementi di metodologia epidemiologica. Società Editrice Universo, Roma
• Ricciardi. Igiene, Medicina preventiva, Sanità Pubblica. IDELSON-GNOCCHI, Napoli
• Jekel, Elmore, Katz. Epidemiologia, Biostatistica e Medicina preventiva. EDISES, Napoli
Learning Objectives
During the course the student will acquire all updated knowledge to professionally develop interventions of prevention. Epidemiology and prevention of infectious and chronic diseases of odontoiatric interest.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons and classrooms exercises
Further information
Oral examination
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
The concept of health and disease. Health promotion: definition and aims. Epidemiologic methodology: definition, aims. Raw, specific and standardized rates. Prevalence and incidence: two way to express morbidity rates. Mortality and case-fatality rates. Descriptive, analytical epidemiology. Clinical trials. Notions of Demography. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Epidemiology of infectious diseases:
Sources of infection, reservoirs, routes of entry and elimination, concept of carrier. Transmission of infectious diseases: direct, indirect, orizzontal vertical transmission and mediated by vehicles and vectors. Endemic and epidemic concepts. Communicable agents in the dental office and routes of transmission. Primary prevention: definition, implementation methods, limits. Secondary prevention: definition, limits, methods of implementation.
Passive immunoprophylaxis, vaccine prophylaxis strategies, mandatory and recommended vaccinations; the vaccination calendar for children, the elderly and professional categories. Epidemiology and prevention of bacterial and viral meningitis, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, influenza, AIDS. Epidemiology and prevention of caries and paradontopathies. Epidemiology and prevention of lip, oral cavity and most frequent sites in male and female sex. Food lifestyle, obesity and chronic degenerative diseases.
Sources of infection, reservoirs, routes of entry and elimination, concept of carrier. Transmission of infectious diseases: direct, indirect, orizzontal vertical transmission and mediated by vehicles and vectors. Endemic and epidemic concepts. Communicable agents in the dental office and routes of transmission. Primary prevention: definition, implementation methods, limits. Secondary prevention: definition, limits, methods of implementation.
Passive immunoprophylaxis, vaccine prophylaxis strategies, mandatory and recommended vaccinations; the vaccination calendar for children, the elderly and professional categories. Epidemiology and prevention of bacterial and viral meningitis, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, influenza, AIDS. Epidemiology and prevention of caries and paradontopathies. Epidemiology and prevention of lip, oral cavity and most frequent sites in male and female sex. Food lifestyle, obesity and chronic degenerative diseases.