COMMUNITY MEDICINE, MIGRATION AND TRAVEL DISEASES

[685ME]
a.a. 2025/2026

Full year

Frequency Mandatory

  • 2 CFU
  • 20 hours
  • Italian
  • University campus of Gorizia
  • Obbligatoria
  • Oral Exam
  • SSD MED/42
  • Advanced concepts and skills
Curricula: COMMON
Syllabus

1. Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course, the student will have acquired the main terminologies and tools dedicated to the fragile people healthcare. The course offers to make the students obtain a specific preparation related to the management of the social-health individual situations in the network of services dedicated to the fragile categories.

2. Capability to apply the know-how and comprehension: at the end of the course the student will have obtained the competency to intervene with activities to improve the social-health conditions of the fragile people. On top of this, they will have obtained the capability to apply their knowledge detecting and showing the collective social care possible improvements.

3. Judgement autonomy: at the end of the course the student will be able to analyze the social-health context to locate and assess the single person need.

4. Communication abilities: at the end of the course the student will be able to experiment the capability to analyze and devise ways to reduce the social-health inequalities.

5. Learning capability: at the end of the course the student will be able to deepen autonomously the topics treated and studied, provide the definition of “health need” of the individuals and the communities, and describe the current survey sources along with the possible research models. Provide thorough knowledge of the social-economic phenomenon causing marginalization, migration and poverty, and their consequences on the health. Present specific tools to analyze the situations, the scheduling and the realization of the activities and the evaluation of their effectiveness.

Deepen the accessibility and usability of the services and deal with the migrants healthcare especially speaking about horizontal subsidiarity, through the collaboration and coordination between the public organizations and services and the social private sector.

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Definition and knowledge of the health protection terms of the society’s most fragile categories: migrants, asylum seekers, homeless, irregular people.
Knowledge of how the clinics are structured, along with the outpatient services.
Knowledge of the screening activity compared to the infectious, chronic and metabolic diseases, the completion of the vaccination schedules, coordination with the general practitioners and the refugees/asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking.
Knowledge of the primary assistance clinics for the persons not subscribed to SSN (migrants and authochtonous) with the possibility to release the ENI/STP codes.
Knowledge of the policies for the migrants health inside the “Health Promotion” context; presentation and deep dive of the law principles that regulate the accessibility of the social-health services to those who lack them.
Knowledge of the connection activities with the other health and social services on the field. Awareness of the existence of the MLC (Cultural Linguistic Mediators) activity.

Statistical immigration dossier 2021

The Medicine of the Migration cares about the fragile people, immigrants and ethnical minorities. The main application sectors are related to the epidemiologic study of the fragile part of the society, finalized to devise new actions to modify the life styles and, generally, the social causes of health; the study and the update of the law related mainly, but not only, the accessibility to the National Health System; the study of new strategies that can intervene, in a non-traumatizing way, on the fragile patient, victim of violence or torture. Not last the anthropologic and ethical approach.

Front lesson and discussion of eventual case. Deepening themes though self learning elaboration

The exam will be oral

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)