At the end of the course students should be able to:
• Knowledge the main principles of Hygiene and Health Education.
• Identify and analyse factors related to health.
• Knowledge the main principles of prevention of the diseases.
• Contribute to carry out health promotion programmes.
1. Objectives of Hygiene and Health Education (Cap. 1 – from page 1 to page 5).
2. Introduction to epidemiology and demography (Cap. 3 – from page 17 to page 41).
3. Health promotion and prevention of the diseases (Cap. 4 – from page 43 to page 52)
4. Health Education (Cap. 5 – from page 53 to page 73).
5. Infectious diseases: epidemiology (Cap. 6 – from page 75 to page 92).
6. Infectious diseases: prevention (Cap. 7 – from page 93 to page 123).
7. Non infectious diseases: epidemiology (Cap. 8 – from page 125 to page 133).
5. Non infectious diseases: prevention (Cap. 9 – from page 134 to page 147).
6. Epidemiology and prevention of the main infectious diseases. Infectious diseases preventable by vaccination: flue; diphtheria; tetanus; pertussis; poliomyelitis; viral hepatitis B; bacterial meningitides; mumps; parotitis; rubella; varicella. Infectious diseases preventable by correct behaviours: viral gastroenteritis; viral hepatitis A; typhoid fever; tuberculosis. Sexual and parenteral-transmitted infectious diseases: AIDS; viral hepatitis C; HPV (Cap. 10 – from page 149 to page 228).
7. Food hygiene (Cap. 12 – from page 261 to page 282).
8. Nutritional hygiene and alimentary education (Cap. 13 – from page 283 to page 305).
9. Life-styles and health (Cap. 14 – from page 307 to page 321).
10. Hygiene and environmental education: environmental pollution (Cap. 20 – from page 393 to page 401); hygiene of water (Cap. 20 – from page 401 to page 413; from page 419 to page 421); hygiene of air and air pollution (Cap. 20 – from page 426 to page 434).
Barbuti S., Fara G.M., Giammanco G., Carducci A., Coniglio M.A., D’Alessandro D., Montagna M.T., Tanzi M.L., Zotti C.M. Igiene. III ediz., Monduzzi, Bologna, 2011.