INTEGRATED COURSE OF HYGIENE AND HEALTH EDUCATION
(Prof. Marisa Arpesella)
PROGRAM:
Definition of health, indicators of health and disease, risk factors
Health India: data sources, demographic indicators, definition of epidemiology, its uses, measures used in epidemiology; definition of prevalence and incidence, epidemiology of infectious diseases; chain epidemiological; epidemiology of chronic diseases.
Definition and general characteristics of the prevention, prevention of articulation in its various stages or levels of activity (levels of prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary).
Deepening of the main preventative measures, eg screening.
Health education: definition, historical development, purpose and type of operation.
Health Promotion.
Active and passive immune protection, the food-borne diseases, prevention of risk of infection: sterilization, disinfection, disinfestations.
Behavioral risk factors: tobacco smoking, alcohol, physical activity, nutrition and sports (energy metabolism, anthropometric measurements).
Biohazard: bacteria, viruses, fungi (general characteristics).
Hygiene of swimming pools and aquatic environments similar safety management pools (type of hazards and risks); drowning and injury; requirements - physical, chemical and microbiological water pools (microbiological risk, water disinfection, risk chemical evaluation of faecal
contamination of water: current legislation).
Management of water and air quality; healthiness of indoor sporting circles; syndromes related to buildings, dissemination of biological agents in the air in confined environments, prevention of legionellosis: current guidelines, mycosis contracted in racing circles.
ADVICE ON EXAM PREPARATION
TEXT BOOK: Igiene - C. Meloni, G. Pelissero – Casa Editrice Ambrosiana 2007
- Chapter 2: Health, risk and disease (content and stages of transition)
- Chapter 3: Epidemiology- Chapter 5.3.1: The Health Education
- Chapter 5.3.2: Protective immunity
- Chapter 6: Prevention of diseases, disabilities, disability
- Chapter 7: Primary prevention
- Chapter 7.1.4: Factors related to biological environment
- Chapter 8.1: Epidemiology and prevention of major infectious diseases
- Chapter 8.2: Epidemiology and prevention of major chronic diseases
- Chapter 12.2.4: Secondary prevention of degenerative disease and neoplastic
implemented by performing mass screening
- Chapter 13.3: The health of sport and sporting activities
Web Sites to visit:
- http://www.epicentro.iss.it/
- http://www.asl.pavia.it/webasl/Cendes.nsf/CendesHP?OpenFrameSet
The Lessons of Nutrition and Food can be downloaded from the Web reference:
http://www.dssap.org/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=49
The Lessons of Hygiene and Health Education can be downloaded from the site of Sports Science at the reference site:
http://www-1.unipv.it/scienzemotorie/insegnamenti/corso.php?id=126