Health Psychology for clinical and medical contexts

Activity type

Psicologia dinamica e clinica

SSD

M-PSI/08

Year

1st year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

3

Hours distribution

36 laboratory hours

Lecturers

CRISTIANO VIOLANI

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

MED/42

Year

1st year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

2

Hours distribution

16 classroom hours

Lecturers

MARIA SOFIA CATTARUZZA

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

MED/42

Year

1st year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

2

Hours distribution

16 classroom hours

Lecturers

PAOLO VILLARI

Activity type

Psicologia dinamica e clinica

SSD

M-PSI/08

Year

1st year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

3

Hours distribution

36 laboratory hours

Lecturers

FEDERICA GALLI

The course aims at promoting the development of an advanced knowledge of the models that in the framework of health psychology and clinicla health psychology explain why people adopt healthy behaviors and how to promote wellbeing in specific contexts like non communicable diseases and chronic diseases. The course also aims at promoting the acquisition of the knowledge and understanding about the Health System and the main issues of public health that may give students the ability to apply that knowledge in all the contexts in which he/she will operate, in order to promote health and safety of the individual and the community.

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
Main teaching objectives:
The course is focused on the interdisciplinary competencies needed by physicians, ranging from economic and managerial skills to epidemiological methods to assess scientific evidence about the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions with an international global health perspective.
By the end of the course, the student must:
● know the basic types of study design and their implications; the basic types of healthcare systems in the world, with their main strengths and weaknesses; the financing, organizational and functional mechanisms of healthcare both at macro-level (healthcare systems) and micro-level (hospital and other healthcare organizations); the main tools of management control in the healthcare organizations; the methods used to evaluate the efficacy, the effectiveness and the efficiency of healthcare interventions;
● interpret correctly the available evidence; be able to read critically and use published epidemiological studies, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, as well as economic evaluations of healthcare interventions; know how to use basics of management control in the healthcare organizations;
● develop a professional attitude to adopt professional behaviors in accordance with the principles of equity, effectiveness and efficiency and objectives to international policies and healthcare organization planning; adopt an epidemiological perspective and approach in a public health context; develop a critical thinking in terms of global health, taking into account that many health problems spill over national boundaries.


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
Elements of basic mathematics; aspects of basic biology


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
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Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
Models and basic types of healthcare systems in the world. The evolutiont of the health care system in Italy. Principles of health care organization referred to the Italian context.The Essential Levels of Care (basic health care benefit package) and the devolution in Italy. The Healthcare planning and determining priorities in health care. Natural history of diseases. Notion of health and disease. Evaluation of the effectiveness of diagnostic tests: sensitivity, specificity and predictive values. Levels of prevention. Main risk factors. Screening programs. Definition and objectives of epidemiology. Classification of epidemiological studies. Methods and tools of descriptive epidemiology. Disease frequency measures. Methods and tools of analytical epidemiology. The association measures. Bias in epidemiological studies. Elements of descriptive and inferential statistics. Experimental epidemiology. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: concepts.


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
Available material:
Students will have the availability of the PDFs of lessons, exercises and additional reference material through e-learning platform of the course. Manzoli, Villari, Boccia. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità. Edi-Ermes, Milano, 2015. For electronic edition:
http://www.ediermes.it/index.php/libri/1171-epidemiologia-e-management-in-sanita-edizione-digitale.html?keyword=epidemiologia+e+man



Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
N.A.


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
Lectures and training sessions.


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
In person lecture.


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
Final evaluation of the learning will consist of a written test. The final evaluation will consist of 4 multiple-choice questions (1pt for each correct answer) and three exercises relating to the evaluation of the efficacy of diagnostic tests, frequency and association measures and the analysis and interpretation of data from analytical and experimental studies (max 4 points per exercise). The total score of the test will be 16 points, which will be added to the test of the module PREVENTION IN HEALTHCARE by Prof. Cattaruzza.


Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
not available



Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D

Module: Health psychology
N/D
Module: Health psychology lab
N/D
Module: Psychology of prevention in health care
N/D
Module: Health psychology and prevention in health care lab
N/D