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Hygiene, Public Health, Forensic and Occupational Medicine - Module of Hygiene and Public Health
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Hygiene and Public Health
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SCB0228A
- Teachers
- Elisabetta Versino (Lecturer)
Chiara Di Girolamo (Lecturer) - Year
- 6th year
- Teaching period
- To be defined
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/42 - hygiene and public health
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Hygiene, Public Health, Forensic and Occupational Medicine (SCB0228)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
- to analyse epidemiological data on the health of the population suggesting possible causes of geographical variations and temporal trends in the distribution of diseases and risk factors
- to identify the mechanisms responsible for inequalities in health in order to tackle them with effective policies
- to measure how much health could be gained through appropriate primary and seondary prevention strategies
- to value advantages and critical points of different health systems and to know the organization of the Italian Health National System
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Program
- health needs evaluation
- italian health status
- inequalities in health: epidemiology, mechanisms, interventions for reducing the amount
- prevention strategies: health promotion, vaccines, screening, care and diagnostic paths
- Evidence Based Prevention
- Health in all policies
- environmental risk factors
- frail populations
- health systems organization
- the National Health care system organization
- principles of economy applied to health systems
Suggested readings and bibliography
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Notes
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