Pre-Professional Interdisciplinary Course I with Elements of Environmental and Human Sociology
A.Y. 2021/2022
Learning objectives
- Know the main models of economic, social and health development and environmental protection in industrialized countries
- Know and identify the processes that support or determine events, phenomena and behaviors of the individual or group, assessing their characteristics and their impact in a bio-cultural perspective, or in relation to the system or social structure in which they occur (family, group, ethnicity, organization, community)
- Develop a capacity for analysis and solution of preventive and welfare problems in a cross-cultural perspective, starting from the knowledge of the problems of the multi-ethnic society.
- Know and identify the processes that support or determine events, phenomena and behaviors of the individual or group, assessing their characteristics and their impact in a bio-cultural perspective, or in relation to the system or social structure in which they occur (family, group, ethnicity, organization, community)
- Develop a capacity for analysis and solution of preventive and welfare problems in a cross-cultural perspective, starting from the knowledge of the problems of the multi-ethnic society.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding of the functioning of prevention services in the field of health systems and useful elements for dealing with complex professional problems. Specific topics will include:
· Knowledge related to the organization of health services at national and international level and ability to understand the dynamics of their development
· Knowledge of some basic aspects related to vaccination in a preventive perspective, useful for future applications in the field of health services;
· knowledge on chemical and ergonomic risk factors and some tools for risk assessment in the field of occupational health and public health;
· Knowledge of some basic aspects of medical parasitology in a preventive perspective useful for future applications in the field of health services.
· Knowledge related to the organization of health services at national and international level and ability to understand the dynamics of their development
· Knowledge of some basic aspects related to vaccination in a preventive perspective, useful for future applications in the field of health services;
· knowledge on chemical and ergonomic risk factors and some tools for risk assessment in the field of occupational health and public health;
· Knowledge of some basic aspects of medical parasitology in a preventive perspective useful for future applications in the field of health services.
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
More specific information on the delivery modes of training activities for academic year 2021/22 will be provided over the coming months, based on the evolution of the public health situation.
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge is required
Assessment methods and Criteria
L'esame di profitto sarà scritto e orale. Per alcuni insegnamenti sarà proposta una prova scritta composta da alcune domande a scelta multipla e aperte; in aggiunta per alcuni moduli, sarà effettuata una prova orale.
Hygiene and public health
Course syllabus
Measles and rubella prevention strategies. Vaccinations of travelers
- Prevention strategies for polio and meningitis
- Calendar of vaccinations. The successes of vaccinations
- Coverage and vaccination strategies
- Vaccination strategies
- Vaccines and vaccinations
- Prevention strategies for polio and meningitis
- Calendar of vaccinations. The successes of vaccinations
- Coverage and vaccination strategies
- Vaccination strategies
- Vaccines and vaccinations
Teaching methods
The courses will include lectures with discussion of case studies.
Teaching Resources
Educational material provided by the teacher.
Occupational medicine
Course syllabus
- History of occupational and environmental toxicology
- Elements of toxicodynamics
- The REACH and CLP regulations; hazard classification and safety data sheets
- Toxicokinetics
- Chemical risk assessment
- The classification of carcinogenicity
- The definition of exposure limit values
- Search for information on dangerous substances in databases
- Urban air pollution as a public health problem
- Exposure to active and passive smoke
- Urban Health Strategies: prevention and health promotion in urban planning
- The multi-criteria tool for the evaluation of urban plans
- Illustration of some concrete cases and application examples
The NIOSH method for assessing the risk of manual handling of loads
- the Snook and Ciriello method for risk assessment in towing and pushing operations
- The European and national framework of occupational diseases
Ergonomic risk assessment for the musculoskeletal system in the movement of hospital patients using the MAPI method:
- Hospital and RSA: epidemiology of WMSDs in assistance operators
- Evolution of the type of assistance in Europe and analysis of the organization of work
- Exercise to compile a protocol for organizational analysis
- The different determinants of risk from patient handling
- Methods for carrying out an inspection and analyzing environmental inadequacies
- The criteria for attributing values to risk determinants
- Exercise to calculate the risk index using the MAPI method
- Preventive strategies to reduce specific ris
- Elements of toxicodynamics
- The REACH and CLP regulations; hazard classification and safety data sheets
- Toxicokinetics
- Chemical risk assessment
- The classification of carcinogenicity
- The definition of exposure limit values
- Search for information on dangerous substances in databases
- Urban air pollution as a public health problem
- Exposure to active and passive smoke
- Urban Health Strategies: prevention and health promotion in urban planning
- The multi-criteria tool for the evaluation of urban plans
- Illustration of some concrete cases and application examples
The NIOSH method for assessing the risk of manual handling of loads
- the Snook and Ciriello method for risk assessment in towing and pushing operations
- The European and national framework of occupational diseases
Ergonomic risk assessment for the musculoskeletal system in the movement of hospital patients using the MAPI method:
- Hospital and RSA: epidemiology of WMSDs in assistance operators
- Evolution of the type of assistance in Europe and analysis of the organization of work
- Exercise to compile a protocol for organizational analysis
- The different determinants of risk from patient handling
- Methods for carrying out an inspection and analyzing environmental inadequacies
- The criteria for attributing values to risk determinants
- Exercise to calculate the risk index using the MAPI method
- Preventive strategies to reduce specific ris
Teaching methods
The courses will include lectures with discussion of case studies.
Teaching Resources
Didactic material provided by the teacher and the multi-criteria tool for the evaluation of urban plans
Economic sociology and sociology of work and organisations
Course syllabus
- Definitions of welfare state, from its origins to today. Marshall's concept of citizenship, in its various components.
- Welfare state and welfare mix. Intervention models in welfare policies.
- The historical evolution of the welfare state in Europe. From the origins to the seventies: birth, consolidation and expansion. The gap between the employment model and the universalistic model.
- The socio-economic transformations of the last thirty years and the crisis of the welfare state: the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, globalization, the aging of the population, changes in the structure of the family, the growth of female employment and consequences on welfare services.
- The reform of the welfare state. The concept of recalibration.
- The welfare regimes of Esping-Andersen and the debate they aroused at an international level and in Italy.
- The welfare state in Italy: birth, development and reform processes of the last twenty years. The Italian welfare state in a comparative perspective.
- The institutional and regulatory structures of social services. The Italian case in a comparative perspective
- Welfare state and welfare mix. Intervention models in welfare policies.
- The historical evolution of the welfare state in Europe. From the origins to the seventies: birth, consolidation and expansion. The gap between the employment model and the universalistic model.
- The socio-economic transformations of the last thirty years and the crisis of the welfare state: the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, globalization, the aging of the population, changes in the structure of the family, the growth of female employment and consequences on welfare services.
- The reform of the welfare state. The concept of recalibration.
- The welfare regimes of Esping-Andersen and the debate they aroused at an international level and in Italy.
- The welfare state in Italy: birth, development and reform processes of the last twenty years. The Italian welfare state in a comparative perspective.
- The institutional and regulatory structures of social services. The Italian case in a comparative perspective
Teaching methods
The courses will include lectures with discussion of case studies.
Teaching Resources
Ferrera M., (2012) Le politiche sociali, Bologna, Il Mulino, limited to the cap. 1.
Further reading instructions and slides will be provided during the course in class.
Further reading instructions and slides will be provided during the course in class.
Parasitology and animal parasitic diseases
Course syllabus
- Basic knowledge of medical parasitology, focusing on epidemiological, diagnostic and prevention aspects
- some models of parasitic and vector-borne diseases (including: Lyme disease; teniasis; echinococcosis; anisakidosis), through which the basic concepts of the discipline will be exemplified.
- some models of parasitic and vector-borne diseases (including: Lyme disease; teniasis; echinococcosis; anisakidosis), through which the basic concepts of the discipline will be exemplified.
Teaching methods
The courses will include lectures with discussion of case studies.
Teaching Resources
De Carneri - Parassitologia medica e diagnostica parassitologia. A cura di Olga Brandonisio, Fabrizio Bruschi, Claudio Genchi, Edoardo Pozio.
Economic sociology and sociology of work and organisations
SPS/09 - ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
Professor:
Cantalini Stefano
Hygiene and public health
MED/42 - HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH - University credits: 2
Lessons: 16 hours
Professor:
Romano' Luisa
Occupational medicine
MED/44 - OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE - University credits: 8
Lessons: 64 hours
Parasitology and animal parasitic diseases
VET/06 - PARASITOLOGY AND ANIMAL PARASITIC DISEASES - University credits: 1
Lessons: 8 hours
Professor:
Epis Sara
Professor(s)
Reception:
Thursday, 9.30-12.30
Microsoft Teams (by appointment)
Reception:
Clinica del Lavoro, Via S. Barnaba, 8