COMMUNITY MEDICINE

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale e di comunità
Teaching Staff: Maria Anna CONIGLIO
Credit Value: 6
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to:

• Knowledge the main principles of Hygiene and Health Education applied to the communities.

• Identify and analyse factors related to health and lifestyles.

• Knowledge the main principles of prevention of the diseases in the communities.


Course Structure

Frontal teaching.


Detailed Course Content

Health: a multidimension reality

Health education and Health promotion

Prevention of the diseases (primary, secondary and tertiary prevention)

Hygiene of school

Hygiene of sport

Lifestyles and health:

  • Physical activity
  • Tobacco dependence
  • Alcoholism
  • Drugs
  • Nutrition

Food Hygiene

Maternal and childhood health promotion and protection

Health promotion and protection in the elderly

Prevention and safety in life environment:

  • Domestic accident
  • Road accident

Textbook Information

Eudes Lanciotti. Igiene. Medicina sociale e di comunità. McGraw Hill