501692 - HYGIENE E COMMUNITY MEDICINE (M-Z)

courses

ID:

501692

Duration (hours):

24

CFU:

SSD:

IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/09/2025 - 16/01/2026)

Course Objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the core concepts on the topics of public and collective health, hygiene, preventive medicine, and community medicine, with particular reference to their application in medicine and surgery, as well as to enable students to understand the professional and social relevance of the discipline.

Course Prerequisites

General understanding of health and its determinants

Teaching Methods

Lectures delivered through PowerPoint presentations; quizzes and discussion sessions about complementary readings on the topics covered during the course.

Assessment Methods

The written exam consists of multiple-choice questions, with a maximum score of 26/30. Those who pass the written test with a satisfactory grade may voluntarily take an oral exam, allowing them to achieve a maximum score of 30/30.

Texts

Signorelli C, Odone A et al. Igiene e sanità pubblica – Secrets, domande e risposte. Società Editrice Universo, Roma, 2025 ISBN: 9788865152317

Other recent public health textbooks
Additional readings

TO UNDERSTAND:
DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CONCEPTS
• Definitions and general concepts of public health, collective health and community medicine applied to the fields of medicine and surgery
• Determinants of health: impact and models
• Definitions and general concepts of prevention, health promotion and health education

TO KNOW:
PREVENTION
• Levels of prevention: definition and examples
• Natural history of infectious and chronic degenerative diseases
• Health policies on prevention

TO KNOW:
PROPHYLAXIS, PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
• Fundamental concepts of infectious diseases, modes of transmission
• General prophylaxis of infectious diseases
• Epidemiology and surveillance of infectious diseases
• Passive immunoprophylaxis and chemoprophylaxis
• Vaccinology, vaccination plans and campaigns
• Standard precautions, hospital hygiene, care-related infections
• Antimicrobial resistance: epidemiology, prevention and control
• Food hygiene and food safety

TO KNOW:
HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
• Environmental matrices and health effects
• The relationship between environment and health, one health
• Environmental Hygiene
• Environmental policies and sustainability

TO KNOW:
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CHRONIC-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
• Epidemiology and prevention of chronic-degenerative diseases
• Epidemiology of lifestyles and behavioural risk factors
• Screening and secondary prevention models

Course Language

Italian

More information

Students who do not meet the attendance requirements established by the Faculty Regulations:
• will only be allowed to take the exam starting from the summer session (June 2026 exam date).
• will need to supplement the program with additional bibliography provided by the teaching staff, which will be included in the evaluation