Hygiene protects and promote health by removing disease causes and risk factors and strengthening protective factors in individuals, populations and environment.
Prospects and problems raised by the continuous development of biomedical sciences require a careful reflection of the ethical aspects involved. The course provides the skills needed to carry out adequate critical evaluation on the values and ethical principles involved in interventions on bios available by the “era of the technique".
Module “Environmental Hygiene, Health Protection”
To provide the essential knowledge about:
- health concept, health protection and promotion, health education;
- identification and control of the main causes of disease and environmental risk factors;
- epidemiology and prevention of the main infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases.
Module “Bioethics”
The course intends to provide a general insight into bioethics issues that researchers and healthcare professionals face daily. The researcher, together with the whole community, is involved in taking responsibility for the activity being carried out.
- health concept and its evolution;
- health protection and promotion through different prevention and education strategies;
- identification, control and removal of the main causes of disease and risk factors in the environment and workplaces;
- epidemiology and prevention of the main infectious and transmissible diseases;
- epidemiology and prevention of the main chronic-degenerative diseases (cardiovascular diseases, neoplastic diseases, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases).
Module "Bioethics"
Provide cognitive, methodological and behavioral tools to critically address the ethical issues raised by advancing scientific and technological research.
Lectures, exercises
Module Bioethics
Bioethics: general principles. Definition and content of bioethics. Historical aspects: the rise of bioethics. Bioethics: from modern ethics to bioethics. The principles of benefit, autonomy and justice.
Ethics in biomedical research, clinical ethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics.
The responsible consensus.
The status of the embryo
Genetic tests
Lecture notes and didactic resources provided by Teachers
Ricevimento: Every day (by phone or e-mail appointment)
ROSAGEMMA CILIBERTI (President)
FRANCESCO D'AGOSTINI (President)
March 2017
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE, HEALTH AND BIOETHICS
Oral examination
The assessment is achieved by thorough oral examination on at least two different subjects.
Interview aimed at ensuring the possession of the basics of bioethics and the ability of critical analysis
