General and applied Hygiene

The course will allow the student to deepen the concepts on health risk management and its prevention, disease epidemiology and risk assessment, acquiring skills about how to prepare a health and hygiene assessment report.

Lectures with the aid of computer tools useful for teaching (power point, network systems).

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Attendance is strongly recommended.

Epidemiology, demography and biostatistics approaches. Health determinants. Infectious and chronic degenerative diseases. Prevention interventions. Cause. Risk factor. Prevention for the protection and promotion of community health. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Air pollution. Thermal well-being and microclimate. Prevention interventions in occupational medicine. Health and the environment. Food chain and food hygiene. Potability of water intended for human consumption. Waste: health, social and environmental risks. Epidemiology and prophylaxis of infectious diseases: typhoid, hepatitis, influenza, exanthematous diseases, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, tetanus, sexually transmitted diseases. Epidemiology and prophylaxis of chronic degenerative diseases: atherosclerosis, diabetes, tumors, smoking, alcoholism. Principles of fertility, birth rate, healthy pregnancy, teratogenesis, early fetal mortality, perinatal mortality, infant mortality. Maternity assistance in the neonatal and developmental age.

Multi-answer quiz test