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.

At the end of the course the student must be able:
· To know the health needs of the population
· To promote the health of the population
· To know the healthcare related infections and the ways to reduce them in hospital setting and community
· To know the health organization at national and regional level and the organization of general practice
· To describe challenges and scenarios of the italian health care sector and the implications in health trusts management
· To know the concept of global health