SCIENZE DELLA PREVENZIONE DEI SERVIZI SANITARIModule IGIENE DELL'AMBIENTE E DEGLI ALIMENTI
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: ANTONIO CRISTALDIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course allows you to acquire essential knowledge relating to the protection of health in living environments (outdoor and indoor environments), in particular: the relationships between exposure to environmental contaminants and the onset of the main infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases; main strategies implemented to prevent negative effects on human health caused by environmental factors; understand the principles and issues relating to food hygiene and nutrition.
Course Structure
Frontal teaching in the classroom with the help of electronic material made available by the teacher.
Required Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of chemistry, biology, physics.
Attendance of Lessons
Mandatory
Detailed Course Content
- Environmental policies and health protection. Environmental epidemiology and risk assessment.
- Air pollution and public health. Main indicators of air quality. General information on the regulatory framework relating to air quality. Particulate matter as an indicator of air quality. Indoor pollution.
- Water pollution and public health. Physico-chemical and microbiological characteristics of water intended for human consumption. Water pollution. Potabilization processes. Epidemiology of hydrodiffused diseases. Viruses in water resources.
- Soil pollution. Main indicators of soil quality. Legislative decree 152/06.
- Waste management and public health. Solid waste disposal and human health. Health effects resulting from the presence of a landfill. The activity of waste-to-energy plants and potential health effects.
- Noise pollution. Definition and characteristics of noise. Noise in living and working environments. Effects on health.
- Ionizing radiation. Definition and main effects on human health.
- Hygiene and safety in the workplace.
- Food and nutrition hygiene. Food safety. Food preservation. The HACCP system. The risk associated with the consumption of food.
Textbook Information
- Maria Triassi, Igiene Medicina Preventiva e del Territorio, III edizione, Sorbona, Idelson Gnocchi, Napoli 2015.
- Giorgio Gilli, Professione igienista, manuale dell’igiene ambientale e territoriale, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2009.
- Buffoli M, Capolongo S., Odone A, Signorelli C. Salute e Ambiente, igiene edilizia, urbanistica e ambientale, EDISES, Napoli 2016.
- Further material can be provided by the teacher.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Environmental policies and health protection. Notes on environmental epidemiology and risk assessment. Air pollution and public health. Main indicators of air quality (carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls). | Text 1, 2 and 3; slides |
| 2 | Notes on the current regulatory framework regarding air quality. Particulate matter as an indicator of air quality. Indoor pollution, chemical, physical and biological contaminants, microclimate, effects on health and environmental comfort. | Text 1, 2 and 3; slides |
| 3 | Water and public health. Chemical-physical and microbiological characteristics of water intended for human consumption. Legislative Decree 18/23 and purification processes. | Text 1 and 2; slides |
| 4 | Main chemical, physical and biological contaminants of water. Epidemiology of waterborne diseases. Viruses in water resources. Wastewater treatment | Text 1 and 2; slides |
| 5 | Soil pollution. Main indicators of soil quality (pesticides, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). Legislative decree 152/06. Waste management and public health. Solid waste disposal and human health. Health effects resulting from the presence of a landfill. The activity of waste-to-energy plants and potential health effects. | Text 1 and 2; slides |
| 6 | Noise pollution. Definition and characteristics of noise. Noise in living and working environments. Harmful effects of noise pollution on health and protection against noise. Electromagnetic pollution and effects on human health. Hygiene and safety in the workplace. Prevention in the workplace. | Text 1; slides |
| 7 | Food hygiene and nutrition. Food safety. Food storage. The HACCP system. The risk linked to food consumption. | Text 1; slides |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral exam in presence on the topics of the program treated during the lectures.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
- Main indicators of air quality
- Potabilization of water
- The HACCP system