Learning outcomes:
The course aims to provide the student with the knowledge to promote and maintain health and well-being. To this aim, epidemiological, demographic and health knowledge will be provided to understand the issue. The principles on which health promotion and their evolution are based will be defined, the reference contexts will be identified, the main determinants of health (proximal and distal) will be analyzed and the various lifestyles will be focused.
At the end of the course, the student will have to:
• know the institutions of reference (WHO, UN, IARC, Ministry of Health, ISS, etc.), the concepts of disease prevention and health promotion, the main indicators (socio-health, demographic, health), the major transitions (demographic , epidemiological, of care), the "Burden of Diseases" and the "big Killers" at national and international level, the Sustainable Development Goals, the main causes of Italian morbidity and mortality, the "vulnerable" populations (elderly, maternal and child health, evolutionary age, migrants, people affected by chronic diseases and social relief, disabled, etc.), risk factors and the Framingham Heart Study, lifestyles and addictions, the “Tobacco Epidemic” and “Big Tobacco”, the relationship between environment and health, the concepts of Advocacy, Empowerment, Health Literacy, the health education campaigns, the prevention strategies based on the individual person and on the population;
• know how to use the reference sources evaluate and interpret the documents and data in a scientifically correct manner;
• develop skills to recognize and countering threats to health, prevent "ill-health" and premature deaths, promote the spread of healthy behaviors, direct policy makers to consider the health of people and of the environment as key elements of politics and give priority to all those decisions that can improve the quality of life.
Evaluation method:
The final evaluation of the Health Promotion Module will be based on the results of a written test structured as follows:
1) 15 multiple-choice questions (2 points each)
2) an open question concerning the activities conducted during the training sessions (maximum 3 points)
Suggested textbooks:
- Reading material available on the Sapienza e-learning platform and provided by the teacher
- Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Guest C; Ricciardi W; Kawachi I; Lang I. Oxford University Press, 2013
ISBN 978-0-19-958630-1
• Chapters:
• 1.1 and 1.3
• 3.2 and 3.8
• All chapter 4 (from 4.1 to 4.8)
• 6.1, 6.2, 6.5 and 6.9
• 7.6 and 7.8
• Chronology of Publich Health Practice
Evaluation method:
The final evaluation of the Health Promotion Module will be based on the results of a written test structured as follows:
1) 15 multiple-choice questions (2 points each)
2) an open question concerning the activities conducted during the training sessions (maximum 3 points).