MEDICINA PREVENTIVAModule SCIENZE MEDICHE APPLICATE ALLA MEDICINA PREVENTIVA
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: GIUSEPPE LANZAExpected Learning Outcomes
To acquire knowledge on the risk factors of diseases and the levels and types of prevention
To know the strategies and techniques to adopt to promote the public health and the health education at the individual and community level
To implement the role of the occupational therapist as a promoter of the health and prevention within the multidisciplinary rehabilitative team
Course Structure
Frontal interactive lessons, supported by slides, videos, and tutorials
Any seminar
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Preventive medicine and the National Health System. Levels and methodologies of prevention
Risk factors: definition, methods, and identification techniques. The role of healthcare professionals
Prevention, chronicity, and disability. Rehabilitation and reintegration. Planning tools and preventive and rehabilitative assistance
Clinical risk, adverse event, and "sentinel" event: definition, prevention, and management. Guidelines and appropriateness of care
The occupational therapy in the promotion of health and secondary and tertiary prevention across different age groups and types of subject
Textbook Information
R. L. Braddom. Medicina Fisica & Riabilitazione. Italian Edition by M. Laineri Milazzo and C. Bertolini. Antonio Delfino Editor (latest edition)
Textbooks of the Italian Minister of Health
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preventive medicine and the National Health System. Levels and methodologies of prevention | Textbook, slides, any additional material |
| 2 | Risk factors: definition, methods, and identification techniques. The role of healthcare professionals | Textbook, slides, any additional material |
| 3 | Prevention, chronicity, and disability. Rehabilitation and reintegration. Planning tools and preventive and rehabilitative assistance | Textbook, slides, any additional material |
| 4 | Clinical risk, adverse event, and "sentinel" event: definition, prevention, and management. Guidelines and appropriateness of care | Textbook, slides, any additional material |
| 5 | The occupational therapy in the promotion of health and secondary and tertiary prevention across different age groups and types of subject | Textbook, slides, any additional material |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
How many levels of prevention are there, what are their objectives and methodologies?
How are the guidelines for the prevention and management of clinical risk established?
What is the meaning of the bio-psycho-social model and what are the main applications?