Educational objectives Knowledge and understanding: Students will know the reference institutions (WHO, UN, IARC, Ministry of Health, ISS, etc.), the concepts of disease prevention and health promotion, the main indicators (socio-health, demographic, health), the major transitions (demographic, epidemiological, of care), the "Burden of Diseases" and the "Big Killers" at national and international level, the Sustainable Development Goals, the main causes of morbidity and mortality, the "vulnerable" populations, risk factors and the Framingham Heart Study, lifestyles and addictions, the "Tobacco Epidemic" and "Big Tobacco", the relationship between environment and health, the concepts of Advocacy, Empowerment, Health Literacy, the health education campaigns, the prevention strategies based on the individual person and on the population.
Applying knowledge and understanding: The course aims at making students able to recognize and tackle health threats, prevent “ill-health” and premature deaths, promote the spread of healthy behaviours, steer policy makers to consider the health of people and of the environment as key elements of politics and give priority to all those decisions that can improve the quality of life; to be able to use the EBM principles for the evaluation of interventions in health organizations; and to be able to adopt professional behaviours based on the principles of Clinical Governance, in line with the principles of equity, effectiveness and efficiency of health care.
Making judgement: Students will develop the ability to judge the principles of Clinical Governance can be applied in the health sector; how the principles of assessment of appropriateness, health care and performance of health activities can be applied and assessed; how to use the tools for the evaluation of health technologies, health-related quality of life, economic evaluations in health, of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Risk Management in health organizations.
Communication skills: Students will develop the ability to communicate specific issues related to healthcare issues to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
Learning Skills: Students will acquire in-depth knowledge of the main issues related to the application of information technologies for health. They will also be able to elaborate autonomously research questions that can be further developed in the final dissertation.
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Educational objectives Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to understand statistical methods and data at local, national and international level, for processing and analysis related to population structure, mortality and health; to fertility and reproductive health; and to population movements.
Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use statistical methods and data at local, national and international level, for processing and analysis related to population structure, mortality and health; to fertility and reproductive health; and to population movements.
Making judgement: students will develop an autonomous judgment capability on a theoretical and practical perspective, on the population dynamics.
Communication skills: students will develop an attitude for demographic reasoning and the capacity for argumentation on the population dynamics.
Learning skills: students will be able to deal with other subjects of the statistic and demographic field thanks to the basic notions of population dynamics.
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