Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy (to qualify as a physiotherapist) (Verona)

GENERAL METHODOLOGY AND PHYSIOTHERAPY SAFETY - PROMOZIONE DELLA SALUTE E PREVENZIONE IN FISIOTERAPIA

Course code

4S007240

Name of lecturer

Silvia Majori

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1

Academic sector

MED/42 - HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Language of instruction

Italian

Site

VERONA

Period

FISIO VR 1^ anno - 1^semestre dal Oct 5, 2020 al Dec 22, 2020.

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Learning outcomes

Objectives of the course:
Knowledge: The course of Hygiene is oriented to provide a knowledge of the student with particular regard to topics useful for their profession.
In particular, this course must provide the student with the knowledge of:
- the behavior patterns related to the correct lifestyle,
- the assessment of socio-economic conditions and social and health conditions that are related to the state of health and / or illness of the population
-the basis of health education thanks to the knowledge of epidemiology and the prevention of infectious diseases and chronic degenerative diseases related to the various territorial realities.


Skills: The course aims to enable students, with regard to their profession, to:
- having acquired a correct behavior protocol to prevent infectious diseases, both for the patient and in relation to his working environment.
- be able to advise the patient in relation to what has been learned, proposing information (health education) according to the knowledge acquired on epidemiology and prevention of the main infectious and chronic degenerative diseases.

Syllabus

- General Epidemiology and Methodology
- General patterns of transmission of infectious diseases
- Models of prevention of infectious diseases.
- Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases
- Epidemiology and prevention of chronic degenerative diseases. Primary prevention and health education. Secondary prevention.

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