OVERVIEW

The main objective of the course is to help future teachers understand the importance of health education as a primary educational need. It aims to convey the significance of prevention from the perspective of protecting the health of both the individual and the community. The course promotes the integration of health education into the educational activities of preschool and primary school.

Students with certification of Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) and/or disabilities are advised to contact the professor at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and exam methods that, according to objectives of the course, take into account individual learning needs and provide appropriate compensatory tools.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Acquisition of the basic concepts of health education and health advancement. Understanding of the importance of prevention in relation both to infectious diseases and to chronic-degenerative pathologies. Acquisition of the basic concepts of environmental hygiene and school hygiene.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students must possess the main knowledge of health promotion and disease prevention. They must also demonstrate that they understand that prevention is essential to protecting the health of the individual and the community.

Students must be able to apply the knowledge acquired and must have sufficient skills to design and carry out an educational intervention of health promotion or disease prevention aimed at children in the infant school and primary school.

PREREQUISITES

No

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons and group activities to develop the subjects dealt with during the class lessons.

Planning examples of educational programs of health promotion or disease prevention for application in the infant and primary school.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Health definition and health factors. Health promotion. Health education as "transverse" teaching in school curricula. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Epidemiology and prevention of the principal infectious diseases, with particular reference to those of childhood and adolescence. National Prevention Plan and National Immunization Plan. Notions of the epidemiology and prevention of chronic-degenerative diseases. Promotion of healthy lifestyles in childhood and adolescence in order to safeguard health in adulthood. Planning of programs for health promotion and disease prevention in the infant school and primary school (according to age). First aid.

The teaching contributes to reaching the following goals of Sustainable Development ONU 2030: goal 3, goal 4 and goal 16.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Study material will be provided by the teacher and published on aulaweb.

Recommended book for in- depth study:

Igiene, Medicina Preventiva, Sanità Pubblica – Ricciardi Walter, Stefania Boccia et al. Terza edizione Editore Idelson Gnocchi.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Lessons start: first week of March 2026.

Class schedule

HIGIENICS AND HEALTH EDUCATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Obligatory written examination consisting of 30 “closed-answer” questions with only one correct answer (one point for each correct answer) and of one “open” question. The open question will evaluate the student's level of detailed knowledge and use of appropriate language. The “open” question will be evaluated in a range between 0 (insufficient) and 3 (excellent).

Oral examination on request by the student, in order to improve the score obtained in the written examination.

For students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD).

Students with disabilities or SLD are reminded that, in order to request exam accommodations, they must first upload their certification on the University website at servizionline.unige.it under the “Students” section. The documentation will be reviewed by the University’s Inclusion Services Sector for students with disabilities and SLD (https://rubrica.unige.it/strutture/struttura/100111).

Subsequently, well in advance (at least 10 days) before the exam date, an email must be sent to the professor, copying both the coordinator for students with disabilities and SLD (laura.traverso@unige.it) and the Inclusion Services Sector using one of the following addresses: disabili@unige.it; dsa@unige.it; inclusione.studenti@info.unige.it. The email should specify:

The course name

The exam date

The student’s last name, first name, and student ID number

The compensatory tools and dispensatory measures deemed functional and requested.

The coordinator (Prof. Laura Traverso) will confirm to the instructor that the applicant is entitled to request exam accommodations and that such accommodations must be agreed upon with the professor. The professor will respond to communicate whether the requested accommodations can be granted.

Requests must be sent at least 10 days before the exam date to allow the professor to evaluate them. In particular, if conceptual maps are to be used during the exam (which must be much more concise than those used for study), failure to submit them within the required timeframe will not allow sufficient technical time to make any modifications that the professor might request.

For further information regarding the request for services and accommodations, please consult the document: Guidelines for the request of services, compensatory tools and/or dispensatory measures, and specific aids.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written format has been adopted in order to ensure that the knowledge acquired during the entire course is assessed in an objective manner. This modality is deemed to be able to correctly evaluate the achievement of both the general and specific training objectives. In the oral examination, the student's level of knowledge, quality of exposition and ability to use appropriate vocabulary will be assessed.

FURTHER INFORMATION

A page dedicated to the teaching program will be activated on aulaweb. The study material presented during the lessons will be uploaded to this page, as will other material required for further in-depth study.

The teacher will publish all information regarding the teaching program on this page.