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HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY – PUBLIC HEALTH

Course Code:

4241

Semester:

4th Semester - Division - Sector “Radiology and Radiotherapy”

Specialization Category:

SBC

Course Hours:

3

ECTS:

4


Course Tutors

Beloukas Apostolos

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the student will have:

  • developed an understanding of ‘Health and Work’ issues.
  • managed to appreciate how the staff health is affected by natural, chemical, biological and ergonomic factors as well as the rules that govern safety at work
  • become familiar with the basic principles of epidemiology and of how they are applied in clinical practice
  • understand the several types of epidemiologic studies would have gained a wide spectrum of skills during the course.

 

SYLLABUS

Historical review. Aims, methods and uses of Epidemiology and Hygiene. The modern aspects of Epidemiologic data. Study of epidemiologic characteristics. Prospective and retrospective research. Epidemiologic approach of preventive interventions. Clinical Epidemiology and Epidemiology of Work.

1. Essential terminology of Hygiene and Epidemiology. Definitions of Health and illness. Historical review. Aims and uses, Etiology and classification in Epidemiology. Sources of data (population censuses, natural movement of population, morbidity statistics, reporting illnesses, mortality statistics, statistics of nursing institutions, coding of diseases).
2. Morbidity and mortality indices. Descriptive Epidemiology. Characteristics of people, place, time. Prospective research. Retrospective research.
3. Clinical Epidemiology. Screening. Evaluation of Therapeutic measures. Epidemiological methods and Health Services. Epidemiologic approach of preventive interventions.
4. Epidemiology of nosocomial infectious diseases. Health protection services for Workers in the Health Sector.
5. Monitoring of infectious diseases. Investigation of endemic and epidemic Hospital Infections. Applications of Epidemiology in the Community Hospitals.
6. Preventive Measures and Isolation of Patients. Multidrug-resistant pathogens control measures.
7. The inanimate environment. Logistics-technical infrastructure.
8. Prevention of food poisoning in Hospitals
9. Infections transmitted in the Clinical Laboratory. Infections caused by Endovascular fluid administration. Infections associated with invasive treatments.
10. Consequences and Characteristics of Endemic and Epidemic Hospital Infections.
11. Epidemiology of infectious diseases (Pneumonia, AIDS, Flu, tuberculosis and modern infectious diseases, Gastroenteritis, Staphylococci and Streptococci of Group A, viruses that cause Hospital Infections).
12. Hygiene at work.
13. Risk assessment at work.
14. Epidemiology at work.