Prevention and Health Sciences

The course aims to provide students with the scientific and cultural tools to learn about: 1. the methodology for the study of the distribution of the events and factors related to the health and the onset of diseases in the population; 2. The data sources and surveillance systems; 3. the principles and methods of health promotion and the of primary and secondary prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases; 4. . the epidemiological characteristics and prevention methods of infectious diseases of greatest interest to public health; 5. The physical basis and principles of radiobiology, the radioprotection of operators and patients, the indications and contraindications to diagnostic therapeutic procedures in Radiodiagnostics, Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy.

At the end of the course the student must: 1. be able to understand the design and to analyze the results of studies of descriptive, analytical and experimental epidemiology; 2. know and know how to use the main sources of mortality and natality and morbidity data; 3. know the main instruments of prevention of infectious diseases with particular attention to disinfection and sterilization techniques and to the use of vaccines and non-infectious diseases, in particular will have to know the main issues related to screening; 4. know the epidemiology and the preventive tools as well as the legislation that regulates their use in relation to the infections of greatest interest for public health; 5. Know the effect of ionizing radiation on biological organisms, the principles and norms related to the radioprotection of Operators and Patients, the indications and contraindications of diagnostic imaging exams and the use of contrast means, the types of adverse events that can occur in the departments of Radiodiagnostics, Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy