Preventive and Public Health Medicine

1. General and applied hygiene. Health/disease determinants; causes and risk factors; epidemiology and epidemiological methodology; health promotion and disease prevention; principles of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; prevention of communicable diseases (notification and surveillance, isolation, diagnostic assessment, disinfection and sterilization, vaccines and vaccinations, etc.); prevention of chronic degenerative diseases (screening); epidemiology and prevention of the main vaccine preventable diseases; food-borne diseases; emerging infections; health-care associated infections.
2.Health services organization: Health Service in Transition, Analysis of general principles and values in health care systems and their performance using different data set. The Italian National health service. The principal challenges a health service faces discussed with respect to hospital and primary care. Risk Management: definitions and case study. The quality of all the elements of the process of care. The methods to assess quality.
3.Global Health: Key concepts and definition of global health (GH); Evolution of GH from tropical medicine to public health and international health; Global burden of disease, epidemiological transition and progress in health indicators; Recent phenomena and future of global health; Social and economic determinants of health; Era of the sustainable development goals (SDGs); Tuberculosis as a model in global health burden and response; the World Health Organization and other major actors in GH; International Cooperation; the great challenges: migrations and climate change.
4.Health education and education for Health: community interventions and patient health education; hot to promote protective behaviors and to reduce at risk behaviors through educational interventions; the contribute of neurosciences to Health educationd and promotion; educational interventions with pre-teens adn teens; theoretical models to develop and implement education programs in the public health arena.

In-depth analysis of economic implications of medical decisions and behaviors; setting priorities in health care; understanding why healthcare sector is the most complex and its specificities that have governance and managerial implications; professionalism and its consequences; organizational behavior and personnel management in health care organizations; new and emerging scenarios, trends and developments in health management and business-healthcare sector relations and partnerships.

1. General and applied hygiene. Health/disease determinants; causes and risk factors; epidemiology and epidemiological methodology; health promotion and disease prevention; principles of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; prevention of communicable diseases (notification and surveillance, isolation, diagnostic assessment, disinfection and sterilization, vaccines and vaccinations, etc.); prevention of chronic degenerative diseases (screening); epidemiology and prevention of the main vaccine preventable diseases; food-borne diseases; emerging infections; health-care associated infections.
2.Health services organization: Health Service in Transition, Analysis of general principles and values in health care systems and their performance using different data set. The Italian National health service. The principal challenges a health service faces discussed with respect to hospital and primary care. Risk Management: definitions and case study. The quality of all the elements of the process of care. The methods to assess quality.
3.Global Health: Key concepts and definition of global health (GH); Evolution of GH from tropical medicine to public health and international health; Global burden of disease, epidemiological transition and progress in health indicators; Recent phenomena and future of global health; Social and economic determinants of health; Era of the sustainable development goals (SDGs); Tuberculosis as a model in global health burden and response; the World Health Organization and other major actors in GH; International Cooperation; the great challenges: migrations and climate change.
4.Health education and education for Health: community interventions and patient health education; hot to promote protective behaviors and to reduce at risk behaviors through educational interventions; the contribute of neurosciences to Health educationd and promotion; educational interventions with pre-teens adn teens; theoretical models to develop and implement education programs in the public health arena.

In-depth analysis of economic implications of medical decisions and behaviors; setting priorities in health care; understanding why healthcare sector is the most complex and its specificities that have governance and managerial implications; professionalism and its consequences; organizational behavior and personnel management in health care organizations; new and emerging scenarios, trends and developments in health management and business-healthcare sector relations and partnerships.

1. General and applied hygiene. Health/disease determinants; causes and risk factors; epidemiology and epidemiological methodology; health promotion and disease prevention; principles of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; prevention of communicable diseases (notification and surveillance, isolation, diagnostic assessment, disinfection and sterilization, vaccines and vaccinations, etc.); prevention of chronic degenerative diseases (screening); epidemiology and prevention of the main vaccine preventable diseases; food-borne diseases; emerging infections; health-care associated infections.
2.Health services organization: Health Service in Transition, Analysis of general principles and values in health care systems and their performance using different data set. The Italian National health service. The principal challenges a health service faces discussed with respect to hospital and primary care. Risk Management: definitions and case study. The quality of all the elements of the process of care. The methods to assess quality.
3.Global Health: Key concepts and definition of global health (GH); Evolution of GH from tropical medicine to public health and international health; Global burden of disease, epidemiological transition and progress in health indicators; Recent phenomena and future of global health; Social and economic determinants of health; Era of the sustainable development goals (SDGs); Tuberculosis as a model in global health burden and response; the World Health Organization and other major actors in GH; International Cooperation; the great challenges: migrations and climate change.
4.Health education and education for Health: community interventions and patient health education; hot to promote protective behaviors and to reduce at risk behaviors through educational interventions; the contribute of neurosciences to Health educationd and promotion; educational interventions with pre-teens adn teens; theoretical models to develop and implement education programs in the public health

In-depth analysis of economic implications of medical decisions and behaviors; setting priorities in health care; understanding why healthcare sector is the most complex and its specificities that have governance and managerial implications; professionalism and its consequences; organizational behavior and personnel management in health care organizations; new and emerging scenarios, trends and developments in health management and business-healthcare sector relations and partnerships.