Environmental Change and Public Health
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The main purposes of this course are:
1. To provide notions of the pathologies linked to the effect of changes of the environment, technology and society
2. To provide predictive instruments using computational tools to quantify the impact of environment, technology and society on changes in physiological processes related to pathologies
3. To provide the new instruments to integrate different knowledge to understand the impact of environmental changes on public health and the communicative strategies to inform policy and society.
1. To provide notions of the pathologies linked to the effect of changes of the environment, technology and society
2. To provide predictive instruments using computational tools to quantify the impact of environment, technology and society on changes in physiological processes related to pathologies
3. To provide the new instruments to integrate different knowledge to understand the impact of environmental changes on public health and the communicative strategies to inform policy and society.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of teaching the student should be able to deal critically with problems related to changes in the environment and their impact on human health. He will need to demonstrate that he can read the scientific literature adequately and critically by understanding statistical analysis and to be able to understand the impact of these changes on the biological mechanisms of the cell. The student will also need to have acquired the necessary communication mechanisms and techniques to manage these issues.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The course consists of lectures followed by exercises on the subject matter to be done individually or in groups. The topics covered will be:
1.Concept of human health as it has changed over time
2. Basic concepts in Global Health: why global health is important; what is the Current Global Burden of Disease? ; what Causes Global Health Disease Burden?; cultural Competence and Determinants of Health; causes of disease: Air, water and soil pollution.
3. Sustainable food: general overview; what are the Roles of Environment and Nutrition?; Direct and Indirect Effects of Food on World Health
4. Food insecurity and malnutrition: concepts
5. Food insecurity and malnutrition and climate change
6. Impact of pathologies and social behaviors due to changes in the environment
7. Sustainable city and public health
8.How to communicate the risk
1.Concept of human health as it has changed over time
2. Basic concepts in Global Health: why global health is important; what is the Current Global Burden of Disease? ; what Causes Global Health Disease Burden?; cultural Competence and Determinants of Health; causes of disease: Air, water and soil pollution.
3. Sustainable food: general overview; what are the Roles of Environment and Nutrition?; Direct and Indirect Effects of Food on World Health
4. Food insecurity and malnutrition: concepts
5. Food insecurity and malnutrition and climate change
6. Impact of pathologies and social behaviors due to changes in the environment
7. Sustainable city and public health
8.How to communicate the risk
Prerequisites for admission
No specific skills required
Teaching methods
Lectures will be alternated with videos and debates to deepen the topics covered. Each lecture will require the intervention and participation of students, who are therefore invited to follow the course. Various teaching tools will be used from power points to videos to podcasts to class questions and open discussion.
Teaching Resources
In addition to the slides, video etc discussed in class, reference scientific articles and books on the subject will be provided.
A book is suggested here for general reference only
Essential Public Health: Theory and Practice
A book is suggested here for general reference only
Essential Public Health: Theory and Practice
Assessment methods and Criteria
At the end of each topic, the students individually or in groups will have to carry out a learning activity on the notions acquired, such as a discussion in front of the class of an article and presentation using a power point, the creation of a video, a critical discussion in class. each student will receive a partial mark for each activity at the end of each subject based on the effort made and the results obtained. There will then be an oral examination that will assess the complete assimilation of the concepts discussed during the course, which will be weighed with the practice activities carried out during the course (50% each).
A prerequisite for the oral is to have done all the exercises and received a grade for them. The final grades will take into account both the comprehensive preparation for the topics covered and the commitment shown throughout the course and during the expositions of the exercises.
A prerequisite for the oral is to have done all the exercises and received a grade for them. The final grades will take into account both the comprehensive preparation for the topics covered and the commitment shown throughout the course and during the expositions of the exercises.
MED/04 - EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY - University credits: 5
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 1
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 1
Practicals: 32 hours
Lessons: 32 hours
Lessons: 32 hours
Professor:
La Porta Caterina Anna Maria
Professor(s)
Reception:
Every Monday, hours to be agreed by email
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