SCIENZE DELLA PREVENZIONE

Learning Objectives

• Hygene

  Concept of health, determinants of health, health promotion. Disease and its causes. Prevention and control of diseases, levels of prevention. Health demography. Health indicators. Principles of epidemiological methodology. Observational and experimental epidemiological studies. Nursing assistance based on evidence of efficacy. Principles of epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases. Hygiene applied to welfare facilities. Transmission models and measures to prevent major infectious diseases.
  
  Epidemiology and prevention of chronic degenerative diseases.
  
  Management of clinical risk and safety of patients and operators. Risk management in the hospital. Hospital hygiene. Hospital waste management.
  
  Community medicine. Damage to health from wrong lifestyle. Promotion and protection of maternal and child health.
  
  Environmental hygiene: primary prevention and physical environment: atmospheric air and water

• Information Processing System

  The objectives of this module are focused on learning and the conception of the logic that regulates basic computing, elaboration data, structure, classification and typology of networks.

Course Structure

• Hygene

  Lectures

• Information Processing System

  Lectures

Detailed Course Content

• Hygene

  Definition, characteristics, contents of hygiene.
  
  Demographic indicators.
  
  Measures of frequency of health events.
  
  Epidemiological studies. Risk assessment.
  
  Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention.
  
  Infectious risk: main measures to eliminate or contain the infectious risk.
  
  Epidemiology and prevention of the most frequent infectious diseases.
  
  Principles of epidemiology and prevention of the main chronic degenerative diseases.
  
  Environmental hygiene: atmospheric air, atmospheric pollution and effects
  
  on human health.
  
  Water: general characteristics, water intended for human consumption.
  
  Health Promotion. Health Organization Names.
  
  Risk management principles
  
  The hospital environment: microclimate, physical, chemical and infectious risk.
  
  Hand hygiene.
  
  Hospital waste management.
  
  Epidemiology and prevention of assistance-related infections.

• Information Processing System

  • Information processing systems;
  • Hardware, software and their stratification;
  • Operating Systems: fundamental functions and their evolutions;
  • Bits, Bytes and numbers connected to them;
  • Database;
  • Classification, Type and Network Levels;
  • E-mail & Protocol;

Textbook Information

• Hygene

  "Igiene per le professioni sanitarie" - Autore: E.Lanciotti - Ed. Mc Graw Hill

• Information Processing System

  Teaching Handouts