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Learning outcomes

The general educational goals of the course are planned to cover principles, methods, tools and functions of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
In this vision, all the major subjects of Community Medicine are discussed, including public health, occupational health, ethics, deontology and legal and forensic medicine.
The course aims at offering to the students adequate knowledge of management, organization, and practice in different medical activities, such as health care, prevention, individual and environmental risk assessment and management, measurement of assistance quality, health service organisation, cost evaluation of health service, diagnosis of occupational diseases, occupational injuries, environmental and biological monitoring of occupational risks, psychological and ergonomic assessment of work conditions, industrial toxicology.

Program

Occupational history collection, risk assessment and etiological diagnosis
Hygiene and safety at work (lung diseases related to quality and amount of dusts: occupational lung diseases - silicosis - asbestosis - from hard metals)
Occupational allergic diseases (bronchial asthma - allergic alveolitis - dermatitis and dermatosis)
Ergonomics - Manual handling of loads and related conditions
Threshold limit values for chemical substances and biological exposure indices
Noise and related disorders
General aspects of industrial toxicology
Solvent and metal toxicology
Occupational cancer and carcinogenesis
Occupational psychology - stress - mobbing
Occupational injuries
Occupational health for health care workers

Examination Methods

Written tests in the form of questions with multiple answers and oral integration. All questions are related to the topics discussed during the lectures in order to understand if the students have learnt the main aspects of occupational safety and studied the main occupational disorders.