THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING

Course objectives

General objectives - Know strategies to promote the health and prevent illness in individuals, communities, and workplace - Know how to analyze problems related to health protection - Know how to use basic knowledge to identify preventive medicine and occupational health interventions Specific goals - Acquire the basics of epidemiology and prevention of the main infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases and environmental hygiene - Acquire knowledge on the legislative principles and methods of application of the current “safety and health protection in the workplace” and in particular on the prevention and protection of residual risk as well as on the main occupational diseases

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Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Definitions of health, disease, risk Determinants of health and disease Risk factors and causal relationships Natural history of diseases Levels of prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary Primary prevention of infectious and non-communicable diseases Vaccines (history, active and passive prophylaxis, vaccination calendars, vaccine hesitancy) Sanitization, disinfection sterilization Secondary prevention: oncological screening programmes, reliability of screening tests and accuracy of tests in general, ROC curves Epidemiology and prevention of some infections diseases: • airborne diseases (TB, Legionellosis, Influenza, Measles, COVID-19) • bloodborne diseases (Hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS) • fecal-oral and foodborne diseases • tetanus and TORCH complex diseases Epidemiology and prevention of the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases (smoking, dietary habits, physical activity, alchol use) Epidemiology and prevention of the main non-communicable diseaaes (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer) Epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of biology, physiopatology and microbiology
Books
Suggested textbooks: Course notes Walter Ricciardi. Igiene Medicina Preventiva Sanità Pubblica (IDELSON-GNOCCHI Editore) CHECCACCI L., MELONI C., PELISSERO G.: IGIENE (Casa Editrice Ambrosiana Milano)
Frequency
Mandatory. Lectures and training sessions
Exam mode
Written exam with multiple choice answers
Lesson mode
Lectures and classroom exercises
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseMedicine and Surgery
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year5th year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDMED/42
  • CFU2