SCIENZE DELLA PREVENZIONE DEI SERVIZI SANITARI

7 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

STEFANO PALMUCCI - Module Radiodiagnostic - MED/36 - 2 CFU
MARGHERITA FERRANTE - Module Health service prevention sciences: General and applied hygiene module. - MED/42 - 3 CFU
ANTONIO CRISTALDI - Module ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE - MED/42 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

Radiodiagnostic
The student should know main methods and machines used in diagnostic imaging; to understande the diagnostic process of main diseases; to learn how to prepare patients before radiodiagnostic procedures, namely when contrast administration is required
Health service prevention sciences: General and applied hygiene module.
The course develops skills in health promotion and prevention of infectious and chronic degenerative diseases, health and the environment with particular reference to the effects of environmental pollutants on health; knowledge of monitoring protocols.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE
The course allows you to acquire essential knowledge relating to the protection of health in living environments (outdoor and indoor environments), in particular: the relationships between exposure to environmental contaminants and the onset of the main infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases; main strategies implemented to prevent negative effects on human health caused by environmental factors; understand the principles and issues relating to food hygiene and nutrition.

Course Structure

Radiodiagnostic
Lessons (generally for 2 hours) as scheduled in the calendar – available in the following link:

http://www.medicina.unict.it/Pagina/It/Didattica_1/Corsi_di_Laurea_1/Corsi_di_Laurea_di_I_livello.aspx

Possibility of having on-line lessons.
Health service prevention sciences: General and applied hygiene module.
Interactive didactics with case-study presentation.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE
Frontal teaching in the classroom with the help of electronic material made available by the teacher.
If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

Detailed Course Content

Radiodiagnostic
- Radiodiagnostic (radiobiology, radioprotection, principles of justification and optimization)
- Imaging procedures
- X-rays production (definition and application of X-ray tube); properties of ionizing radiations (photoelectric effect, Compton effect, ionizations mechanism);
- Computed Tomography (CT) scanner; (background, evolution, models, components of CT room scanner);
- Contrast media (classification: radiographic, sonographic, MRI); use of contrast media; adverse reactions;
- Principles and machines used in Ultrasonography (clinical applications in maternal-fetal contest, etc); clinilcal applications of ultrasonography in adults (liver, spleen, abdominal, thyroid US, etc);
- Principles of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging); MRI scanner; absolute and relative controindications for patients before MRI;
- Diagnostic process for respiratory disease (pneumothorax, trauma, hemoptysis, pneumonitis, neoplasia, enphysema, pulmonary nodule, pleural effusion); anatomy of chest radiography;
- Diagnostic process for main gastrointestinal diseases (jaundice, cholecystitis, appendicitis, Crohn);
- Abdominal X-ray in Emergency Room; imaging of gastrointestinal diseases;
- Imaging of main uro-genital diseases (renal lithiasis; non-neoplastic and neoplastic bladder diseases; prostate disease; ovarian diseases, scrotal diseases);
- Imaigng of SNC disease;
- Radiotherapt and Nuclear Medicine: principles and applications
Health service prevention sciences: General and applied hygiene module.
Definition of Hygiene. Demography. Epidemiology. Prevention. Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases with particular regard to the most common diseases. Epidemiology and prevention of chronic degenerative diseases, prevention of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, COPD, cancer. Epidemiology applied to the environment. Environmental prevention: study and remediation of the environment with reference to relations with health.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE
Environmental policies and health protection. Environmental epidemiology and risk assessment.
Air pollution and public health. Main indicators of air quality. Notes on the current regulatory framework regarding air quality. Particulate matter as an indicator of air quality. Indoor pollution.
Water pollution and public health. Physico-chemical and microbiological characteristics of water intended for human consumption. Water pollution. Potabilization processes. Epidemiology of hydrodiffused diseases. Viruses in water resources.
Soil pollution. Main indicators of soil quality. Legislative decree 152/06.
Waste management and public health. Solid waste disposal and human health. Health effects deriving from the presence of a landfill. The activity of waste-to-energy plants and potential health effects.
Noise pollution. Definition and characteristics of noise. Noise in living and working environments. Effects on health.
Ionizing radiation. Definition and main effects on human health.
Hygiene and safety in the workplace.
Food and nutrition hygiene. Food safety. Food preservation. The HACCP system. The risk associated with the consumption of food.

Textbook Information

Radiodiagnostic
1) Compendio di Radiologia” di Roberto Passariello e Giovanni Simonetti Editore Idelson – Gnocchi.

2) Fernando Mazzuccato – Anatomia Radiologica Tecniche e Metodologie in Radiodiagnostica (Piccin)

3) MRI made easy -Schering ed.

4) Dall'anatomia all'immagine (Silvia Magnaldi, Luciana Travan). Ed. Poletto ISBN: 8886786948
Health service prevention sciences: General and applied hygiene module.
1) Maria Triassi, Gabriella Aggazzotti, Margherita Ferrante, Igiene Medicina Preventiva e del Territorio, II edizione, Sorbona, Idelson Gnocchi, Napoli 2015.

2) Buffoli M, Capolongo S., Odone A, Signorelli C. Salute e Ambienter, EDISES, Napoli 2016.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE
1) Maria Triassi, Igiene Medicina Preventiva e del Territorio, III edizione, Sorbona, Idelson Gnocchi, Napoli 2015.

2) Giorgio Gilli, Professione igienista, manuale dell’igiene ambientale e territoriale, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2009.

3) Buffoli M, Capolongo S., Odone A, Signorelli C. Salute e Ambiente, igiene edilizia, urbanistica e ambientale, EDISES, Napoli 2016.

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