Integrated course: Prevention and Health ServicesModule General and applied health
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: GEA MARZIA OLIVERI CONTIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course will allow students to learn concepts on clinical risk assessment and epidemiology acquiring skills about conduction of the literature revisions, meta-analyzes and systematic revisions. Evidence-based medicine will also be deepened and the student will be instructed in the drafting and organization of research projects, training interventions, educational interventions and support for the individual and the community for self-management and control of risk factors and of health problems.
Course Structure
The course includes lectures with the help of powerpoint.
Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Detailed Course Content
- Hygiene goals - Health determinants - Primary, secondary and tertiary disease prevention - Pathogenic, opportunistic and non-pathogenic microorganisms - Infectious diseases transmission mode - Prevention of the main infectious diseases of interest in speech therapy (measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, diphtheria, bacterial meningitis, poliomyelitis, tetanus, HIV infection) - Sterilization, Disinfection and antisepsis, Principles of communication in health care. Congenital malformation of interest in speech therapy (Palatosis, craniofacial malformations, encephalic malformations). Prevention through correct nutrition during pregnancy. Epidemiology of vascular, muscular and genetic disorders and speech disorders in children and adults. Neonatal auditory screening as a linguistic disorder prevention.
Textbook Information
Reference book. Igiene. Triassi, Aggazzotti, Ferrante. II edizione, Ildeson-gnocchi editore
Slides of teacher (Studium)
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Epidemiologia, demografia e statistica sanitaria. Determinanti di salute. Malattie infettive e croniche degenerative. Interventi di prevenzione. Causa. Fattore di rischio | Testo 1 |
| 2 | * Prevenzione per la tutela e la promozione della salute della collettività. Prevenzione primaria, secondaria e terziaria. | Testo 1 |
| 3 | * Salute e ambiente. Catena alimentare e igiene degli alimenti. Potabilità dell'acqua destinata al consumo umano. Rifiuti: rischi sanitari, sociali e ambientali. | Testo 1 |
| 4 | * Epidemiologia e profilassi delle malattie cronico degenerative: aterosclerosi, diabete, tumori, tabagismo, alcolismo. | Testo 1 |
| 5 | * Principi di fecondità, natalità, gravidanza salubre, teratogenesi, mortalità fetale precoce, mortalità perinatale, mortalità infantile. | Testo 1 |
| 6 | Alimentazione e nutrizione | Testo 1 |
| 7 | Screening uditivo neonatale | Slides docente |
| 8 | Malformazioni cranio-facciali | Slides docente |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Written test. Elements to be evaluated: relevance of the answers, quality of their contents, ability to connect with other topics within the program, ability to report examples, quality of technical language, and overall expressive ability.
Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it