At the end of the course the student will have learned what are the general principles of the epidemiology of infectious diseases, their transmission and what are the tools, operators, activities and objectives of Public Health (with particular attention to the national one) for prevention of the same.
You will know the methods of interrupting the chain of transmission from diagnostic assessment, disease reporting and patient isolation measures.
They will know the methods of preventing the spread of infections through sterilization and disinfection, the operator's good practices to prevent contagion.
He will know the strengthening of immunity through the analysis of vaccines, their mechanisms of action and passive immunoprophylaxis.
At the end of the course the student must be able to evaluate which actions to take to achieve the objectives of prevention of infectious diseases according to the context in which he will be professionally inserted

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Organization of the prevention of infectious diseases in public health, surveillance systems and national, European and international organization.
Indirect prophylaxis: health education
Generic direct prophylaxis (man):
source of infection, notification, isolation, contumacy and health surveillance, epidemiological investigation, diagnostic verification
Specific direct prophylaxis: immunoprophylaxis (vaccines and seroprophylaxis)
chemoprophylaxis

“Hygiene, preventive medicine, public health”
2nd edition
S.Barbuti, G.M. Fara, G. Giammanco et a.
Ed EdiSES
“Hygiene and Public Health: fundamentals of prevention”
Amendola, F. Auxilia, G. Cesana, M. Pontello, E. Tanzi
Ed. Piccin

General principles of epidemiology of infectious diseases, transmission of infectious diseases, routes of contagion
Prevention of infectious diseases in public health, public health activities, operators, tools and objectives for the prevention of infectious diseases
Primary prevention: interruption of the chain of transmission by notification, classes of infectious diseases, associated information systems (SIMI)
Diagnostic assessment: preanalytical phase, analytical and laboratory methodologies
Epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases for vaccine prevention and updating: biomolecular methodologies, genomic sequencing, bacterial and viral variants
The epidemiological investigation
Isolation and contumacy: typologies and strategies of health surveillance
Prevention of the spread of infections: methodologies, products and historical notes regarding sterilization (physical and chemical methods) and disinfection (physical and chemical methods)
EU regulation on biocidal products n. 528/2012
Disinfection and antisepsis: organic and inorganic products, Spaulding and Rutala classification.
Disinfection in practice, hand hygiene: transmission of infections, cross-infections, hygiene in hospitals.
Immune system and specific and nonspecific response: introduction to active and passive immunoprophylaxis
Active immunoprophylaxis: types of vaccines and mechanisms of action (live attenuated, inactivated, DNA and viral vector, mRNA vaccines, produced with recombinant DNA technology, toxoids)
Active immunoprophylaxis: method of administration, reactogenicity, immunogenicity, adverse reactions, active vaccinations on the national territory
Passive immunoprophylaxis: serums and immunoglobulins, type and method of use.
Basics of chemoprophylaxis: mode of action of antibiotics, antifungals, antiprotozoals and antivirals
Elements of education for the prevention of infectious diseases (European project E-Bug)

frontal lessons

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Written exam in the form of a test of 15 multiple choice questions and one open-ended question. Each question has three choices including a correct one worth a fifteenth. The open-ended question worth 18 fifteenth. Vote in thirtieths with possible honours.

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