Public, global health, occupational medicine and forensic sciences

The course integrates two modules, General and Applied Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, with the contribution of MED/01 (Medical Statistics) and SECS-P/06 (Applied Economics). Its aim is to provide students with a multidisciplinary background to address major issues in public health and occupational medicine, combining epidemiological, statistical, and economic perspectives. Overall, the course promotes an integrated approach that combines epidemiology, medical statistics, and applied economics to support decision-making in public health, occupational safety, and healthcare system management.

At the endo of the course students are expected to have knowledge on: - the basic epidemiology principles, concepts, and procedures useful in the surveillance and investigation of health-related states or events. - the objectives, strategies and actions to control and prevent diseases and to promote health at the individual and community levels. - the educational strategies to support behaviors' change among patients and communities. - the essential concepts of global health and trans-national determinants and solutions in health. - the general principles and values of healthcare systems and their performance. - the risk management and the quality of the process of care. - how to address suspected occupational diseases: diagnostic and exposure criteria, diagnosis and prevention. - how to classify occupational diseases according to the existing national lists and the ICD codes. - how to report an occupational disease. - how to address chemical risks, to identify priorities, to decide prevention strategies. - how the environment affects health through impact on genome and gene expression. - how to manage big records of patients, from the general practice to specific specializations and to do basic statistical elaboration.