The course includes all aspects relating to epidemiology and general and special prevention, environmental hygiene and health organization and planning. At the end of the course the student will have to know the meaning of health indicators, the general health situation of our country, possess the notions of epidemiological methodology to read and interpret scientific works, know the fundamental concepts of prophylaxis of infectious and non-infectious diseases, have general notions of organisation, planning and health economics, food hygiene and hospital hygiene.
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures and student contributions
Assessment Methods
Written exam combined with the other subjects of the Preventive Medicine integrated course. The part referring to Sociology includes 10 questions with 1 correct answer
Texts
M.Bucchi, F.Neresini (a cura), Sociologia della salute, Carocci,2005
Giarelli G, Venneri E., Sociologia della salute e della medicina, F.Angeli,2009
M. Tognetti Bordogna, Nuovi Scenari di Salute, F.Angeli, 2017
Contents
0 The basic analytical tools of sociology. 1 Social condition and health 1.1 The healthy body and the sick body: the social perception of health 1.2 Social characteristics that interact with health status 1.2.1 Social class and health 1.2.2 Gender and health 1.2.3 Immigration and health
2 Social organization for health management 2.1 Welfare systems 2.2 Organizational models for disease management 2.2.1. The hospital 2.2.2 Territorial services
3 Cultural and social models of the health-illness relationship 3.1 The medicalisation of health 3.2 Biomedical model 3.3 Behavioral model 3.4 Holistic model
4 The nurse-patient relationship in health management 4.1 The concept of role 4.2 The role of the nurse and the role of the patient 4.3 The meaning of rituals in managing the relationship with the patient 4.4 Rituals in the organization of work
5 Nurse patient communication 5.1 Communication as a process of selecting and organizing information 5.2 The characteristics of the communicative relationship 5.3 Communication skills 5.4 Communication and a sense of modesty and shame
6 New tools in the relationship with patients 6.1 The patient's resources, 6.2 Coping 6.3 Counselling 6.4 Partnership
7. Collaborations in health management 7.1 The functions of the family 7.2 The functions of social networks
