Preventive and Public Health Medicine

The course aims to provide students with the cultural tools to able:
· To recognise the individual and general population health needs
· To evaluate data and to use them to promote and maintain health at individual and population level
· To promote health for all population against infectious and chronic diseases
· To know how to manage hospital hygiene to prevent healthcare infection control in hospital and community
· To recognise health problems in community and workplaces to manage them correctly
· To know the most important laws which rule the health organization
· To be able to read the organizational and economic variables which distinguish the national and regional health services
· To know the management of the health services in the community
· To know the most important elements of health economics with particular attention on cost/benefits ratio of diagnostic therapeutic and preventive procedures and the ways to apply them on medical decisions
· To know the concept of global health in order to facilitate the learning of the great phenomena that affect health and access to prevention and treatment at a global level.

Al termine dell'insegnamento lo studente dovrà essere in grado di:
· Identificare i bisogni di salute della popolazione
· Promuovere la salute del singolo e della collettività nei confronti delle malattie infettive e cronico degenerative
· Prevenire le infezioni correlate all'assistenza in ospedale e comunità
· Identificare correttamente i livelli di organizzazione del servizio sanitario nazionale e regionale
· conoscere sfide e "futuri" del settore della salute Italiano: le implicazioni per la gestione delle aziende sanitarie e per i professionisti
· Comprendere i concetti-chiave di Global Health, il Global burden of Disease e gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'ONU (SDG).