ID:
501344
Duration (hours):
48
CFU:
6
SSD:
IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 23/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The Hygiene course provides notions on epidemiology, key features and applications of epidemiological investigations (observational and experimental studies), and concepts on health promotion, surveillance and illness prevention.
The course focuses also on principles and problems related to environmental Hygiene and fundamental characteristics, control and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases.
The course focuses also on principles and problems related to environmental Hygiene and fundamental characteristics, control and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basic principles of general biology and the basic concepts of immunology and microbiology
Teaching Methods
Lectures and case studies
Assessment Methods
Written exam with the possibility of a final paper for the part of Prof. Gaeta
Texts
Signorelli C, Odone A et al. Igiene e sanità pubblica – Secrets, domande e risposte. Società Editrice Universo, Roma, 2021 ISBN: 9788865151839
Contents
Hygiene.
Hygiene, health, risk and illness. Health organization.Epidemiology.Epidemiological sources, data and measures. Observational epidemiological studies: descriptive and analytical. Experimental studies. Errors in epidemiological studies and epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.
Prevention.
Promotion, health education and prevention. Objectives and methods of prevention. Primary prevention, secondary prevention, tertiary prevention.
Influential environmental factors on humans.
Polluting components of environmental matrices. Biological action of pollutants.
Chronic-degenerative diseases. Characteristics, causes, prevention. WHO objectives for non-communicable diseases; national prevention plan. NCD (COPD, cerebral and cardiovascular diseases, T1DM, T2DM, gestational diabetes): epidemiology, characteristics, prevention.
Infectious diseases.
Host-microorganism interaction. Resident microbiota. Microbial pathogenicity. Pathogenesis of infectious diseases. General epidemiology. Characteristics of infectious diseases. Origin of infectious agents: reservoirs and sources of infection. Routes of entry and elimination of infectious agents. Evolutionary process of the transition from the state of health to the disease for infectious pathology. Mode of transmission, direct and indirect, of infectious diseases. Ways of appearance of diseases in the population (sporadic, endemic, epidemic and pandemic).
Prevention of infectious diseases (ID): primary, secondary, tertiary prevention.
Prophylaxis of infectious diseases: direct and indirect methods. Health education (individuals and communities). Epidemiological surveillance (ID notification, SIMI, special surveillance), diagnostic assessment, measures against the diffusion (contact trace, isolate, quarantine..), epidemiological investigation. Disinfection and sterilization. Chemoprophylaxis. Specific immunoprophylaxis: active and passive.
Vaccine prophylaxis: characteristics, objectives, types of vaccines (characteristics, specificity, targets, examples), vaccination schedule.
SARS- CoV2 immunoprophylaxis.
Hygiene, health, risk and illness. Health organization.Epidemiology.Epidemiological sources, data and measures. Observational epidemiological studies: descriptive and analytical. Experimental studies. Errors in epidemiological studies and epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.
Prevention.
Promotion, health education and prevention. Objectives and methods of prevention. Primary prevention, secondary prevention, tertiary prevention.
Influential environmental factors on humans.
Polluting components of environmental matrices. Biological action of pollutants.
Chronic-degenerative diseases. Characteristics, causes, prevention. WHO objectives for non-communicable diseases; national prevention plan. NCD (COPD, cerebral and cardiovascular diseases, T1DM, T2DM, gestational diabetes): epidemiology, characteristics, prevention.
Infectious diseases.
Host-microorganism interaction. Resident microbiota. Microbial pathogenicity. Pathogenesis of infectious diseases. General epidemiology. Characteristics of infectious diseases. Origin of infectious agents: reservoirs and sources of infection. Routes of entry and elimination of infectious agents. Evolutionary process of the transition from the state of health to the disease for infectious pathology. Mode of transmission, direct and indirect, of infectious diseases. Ways of appearance of diseases in the population (sporadic, endemic, epidemic and pandemic).
Prevention of infectious diseases (ID): primary, secondary, tertiary prevention.
Prophylaxis of infectious diseases: direct and indirect methods. Health education (individuals and communities). Epidemiological surveillance (ID notification, SIMI, special surveillance), diagnostic assessment, measures against the diffusion (contact trace, isolate, quarantine..), epidemiological investigation. Disinfection and sterilization. Chemoprophylaxis. Specific immunoprophylaxis: active and passive.
Vaccine prophylaxis: characteristics, objectives, types of vaccines (characteristics, specificity, targets, examples), vaccination schedule.
SARS- CoV2 immunoprophylaxis.
Course Language
Italian
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PHARMACY
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