AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is focused on the figure of the tourist to provide operators in training with an exhaustive picture of the characteristics, expectations and needs of the tourist as well as the possible risks to his/her health depending on the areas visited and the eating, hygiene and health behaviours, assumed.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Aims

The main objective is to provide basic concepts and information on travel medicine for all those who work in the field of tourism and territorial promotion.

The aim of the course is to develop the knowledge and skills needed in order to avoid the most common risks and diseases that may be encountered during national and international travel, according to the travel destination and the individual characteristics of the traveler.

Objectives in detail

Raising awareness of the evolution of international and national travel and associated factors (health emergencies and sociopolitical emergencies).

Infectious diseases and travel: understanding that the potential risk of contracting infectious diseases is associated both with personal behaviors and with the geographical area visited.

Non-communicable diseases and travel: providing knowledge of non-infectious diseases that may occur during travel and of their associated risk factors.

Acquisition of the basic knowledge of the main diseases that afflict travelers.

Raising awareness of the importance of knowing and implementing the various strategies for the prevention of both infectious and non-infectious diseases.

Acquisition of the basic norms of safety for travelers.

TEACHING METHODS

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

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Hygiene and travel medicine. The concept of health and associated factors. Elements of epidemiology. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Evolution of international and national travel.  Epidemiology and prevention of the principal infectious diseases, with particular reference to the various risk areas. Knowledge of non-infectious diseases that may occur during travel and of their associated risk factors. Basic norms of safety for travelers. Travel Medicine Centers.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

A page dedicated to the teaching program will be activated on aulaweb. The study material presented during the lessons will be regularly uploaded to this page.

Students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) certification and/or with disabilities will agree with the teacher any compensatory tools.

Bibliography

Atlante della salute in viaggio. Come viaggiare sicuri verso ogni destinazione. Alberto Tomasi. Editore: Edra SpA.

Introduzione all’arte di viaggiare in salute. 101 perché ai quali saper rispondere (prima di partire). Alberto Tomasi. Editore Cultura e Salute Editore Perugia, 2021.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GUIDO FRANCO AMORETTI (President)

DONATELLA PANATTO (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester. Lessons start: first week of March 2024.

Class schedule

TRAVEL MEDICINE

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination in order to evaluate the students' level of knowledge, the quality of their explanations and their ability to use appropriate vocabulary.

Students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) and/or disability are recommended to contact the professor at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and exam methods which, according to the course’s objectives, take into account the modalities individual learning and provide suitable compensatory tools.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The oral examination will assess the level of knowledge, the quality of the exposure and the ability to use a appropriate vocabulary.

FURTHER INFORMATION

A page dedicated to the teaching program will be activated on aulaweb.

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