ID:
503486
Duration (hours):
30
CFU:
2
SSD:
IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 30/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
Aim of the course is to provide key basic concepts on hygiene, preventive medicine and public health, with particular reference to their application in nursing.
The course aims to provide the student with the tools necessary to:
- know and understand the causal relationship between exposure and outcome
- identify the study design useful to answer questions in the field of Prevention and apply it
- calculate, understand and interpret the most important epidemiological measures of disease and association between exposure and disease.
At the end of the course the student will be able to autonomously carry out the planning of basic epidemiological research and communicate in a pertinent way as well as emerged, as well as understand the published evidence and be able to critically evaluate what exists in relation to their work context.
The course aims to provide the student with the tools necessary to:
- know and understand the causal relationship between exposure and outcome
- identify the study design useful to answer questions in the field of Prevention and apply it
- calculate, understand and interpret the most important epidemiological measures of disease and association between exposure and disease.
At the end of the course the student will be able to autonomously carry out the planning of basic epidemiological research and communicate in a pertinent way as well as emerged, as well as understand the published evidence and be able to critically evaluate what exists in relation to their work context.
Course Prerequisites
General understanding of health and its determinants
Teaching Methods
Lectures and case studies.
The course is organized in lectures and additional practical activities. Interactive presentation platforms (e.g. Wooclap) will be used.
The course is organized in lectures and additional practical activities. Interactive presentation platforms (e.g. Wooclap) will be used.
Assessment Methods
Written exam with multiple choices questions.
Texts
Textbook: Carlo Signorelli, Igiene e sanità pubblica. Per scienze infermieristiche e altre professioni, Edizione 2021, SEU.
Contents
Understand:
- Definitions and general concepts of public health, collective health, and community medicine as applied to areas of interest in medicine and surgery
- Determinants of health: impact and patterns
- Definitions and general concepts of prevention, health promotion and health education
Remember:
- Levels of prevention: definition and examples
- Natural history of infectious diseases and chronic degenerative diseases
Programme:
Introduction to Hygiene
Determinants of health and levels of prevention
Chronic diseases and lifestyles
Screening
Health promotion
Nursing research and review
- Introduction to epidemiology: definition of epidemiology, historical outline.
- The causation in epidemiology.
- Types of studies: observational and experimental studies.
- The main experimental studies design: randomized control trials, fields trials, community trials.
- Observational studies: descriptive studies,
Ecological studies, cross-sectional studies, , case-control studies, cohort studies: characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
- Confounding and effect modifier.
- Main epidemiological measures of disease frequency: prevalence, cumulative risk or incidence, incidence rate, crude and standardized mortality rate, lethality rate. Odds of exposure and disease.
- Association measures: absolute and relative measures. Absolute measures: Absolute risk, Risk attributable to exposure and Risk attributable to the population. Relative Measures: Prevalence Ratio, Relative Risk or Risk Ratio, Incidence Ratio Rates, Odds Ratio. Standardized Mortality Ratio or SMR.
- Outlines on available information (health flows: death and birth records, notification of infectious diseases, hospital sources, pathology registries) as sources of data for epidemiological studies.
- Definitions and general concepts of public health, collective health, and community medicine as applied to areas of interest in medicine and surgery
- Determinants of health: impact and patterns
- Definitions and general concepts of prevention, health promotion and health education
Remember:
- Levels of prevention: definition and examples
- Natural history of infectious diseases and chronic degenerative diseases
Programme:
Introduction to Hygiene
Determinants of health and levels of prevention
Chronic diseases and lifestyles
Screening
Health promotion
Nursing research and review
- Introduction to epidemiology: definition of epidemiology, historical outline.
- The causation in epidemiology.
- Types of studies: observational and experimental studies.
- The main experimental studies design: randomized control trials, fields trials, community trials.
- Observational studies: descriptive studies,
Ecological studies, cross-sectional studies, , case-control studies, cohort studies: characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.
- Confounding and effect modifier.
- Main epidemiological measures of disease frequency: prevalence, cumulative risk or incidence, incidence rate, crude and standardized mortality rate, lethality rate. Odds of exposure and disease.
- Association measures: absolute and relative measures. Absolute measures: Absolute risk, Risk attributable to exposure and Risk attributable to the population. Relative Measures: Prevalence Ratio, Relative Risk or Risk Ratio, Incidence Ratio Rates, Odds Ratio. Standardized Mortality Ratio or SMR.
- Outlines on available information (health flows: death and birth records, notification of infectious diseases, hospital sources, pathology registries) as sources of data for epidemiological studies.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Lecture attendance is mandatory and will be recorded in class using the MyUniPv app. To be eligible to take the final exam, students must have attended at least 75% of the scheduled instructional activities for each course (see Academic Regulations).
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