Psychoneuroendocrineimmunology and Science of Integrated Care

Psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology (PNEI) offers the most complete interdisciplinary approach for explaining health and disease in human beings. PNEI is the study of how neurological, endocrinological and immune systems interact with the psyche and how all of these together relate with the physical and social environment. PNEI leans on epigenetics to explore the positive and negative clinical outcomes of these relationships over an extended period of time. In this vein, it studies human beings in their entirety and in their underlying relationships with the environment around them, by adopting an integrated and scientifically robust overview of medicine and psychology while also taking full account of each person?s social and relational history. This vocational master?s programme aims to introduce health practitioners to this scientific paradigm, providing them with a theoretical and evidence-based framework to expand the clinical assessment tools and treatment choices at their disposal. The vocational master?s programme will give learners the resources to develop preventive and promotional healthcare interventions (including for chronic diseases), which can, in turn, have public health benefits. It will provide the necessary skills and knowledge to professionals who work in community health centres (in line with regional healthcare policies) and will foster an integrated-care approach that takes into account individuals and their environment. Graduates of the vocational master?s programme will be able to design treatment and health promotion plans tailored to healthy and sick individuals, thus contributing to building a healthcare environment that is characterised by continuity of care, early intervention in critical cases, inter-professional cooperation, reduction of adverse events and an increase in life expectancy and quality of life.