Documents given by the teacher.
Triassi M et al. Igiene Medicina preventiva e del territorio. Edizioni Idelson-Gnocchi Napoli 2021
Learning Objectives
Enabling students to know and update themselves on the main human health problems related to pollutants and contaminants present in the natural and built environment as well as related to climate change
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons and visits to research laboratory
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
Verification of the acquired knowledge and skills through a written test: critical examination of a scientific paper on a topic of the course program, with open-ended answer to specific questions
Course program
1. Introduction: environment-human interaction and human health effects. Barton and Grant diagram. Public Health tracking. Planetary Boundaries. Concept of causality.
2. Concept of risk. The Life Course Approach for a healthy life. Concept of Evidence Based.
3. Primary and secondary prevention, and health promotion.
4. Epidemiologic methods, particularly applied to environmental problems: descriptive and analitical (case referent and cohort) studies, cross-sectional studies and other methods as cluster analyses; assessment of environmental exposures through diffusional models and measures obtained through biomonitoring.
5. Risk assessment and management: Decree no.152/2006; VAS, VIA, AIA, AUA, VIS; ISO standards; Ecolabel; REACH regulation; CLP regulation; reference values.
6. Pollutants and contaminants: how to deal with the available specific knowledge (public health relevance, available evidences, prevention activities at individual and population level). The precautionary principle.
7. Pollution by xenobiotic chemicals (POPs, Solvents, Heavy metals, Pesticides, Endocrine disruptors, Dioxins and other xenobiotic chemicals, PHAs).
8. Outdoor and indoor air pollution (CO2, SO2, O3, NOx, C6H6, PHAs, Metals, Particulate matter).
9. Water pollution, with particular attention to water for human consumption.
10. Physical pollutants (ionazing and non-ionizing radiation, radon, noise).
11. Waste (urban and special waste, dangerous and non-dangerous waste, incinerators and landfills).
12. Infectious and xenobiotic risks in food.
13. The built environment.
14. The climate change.
15. The Citizen Science and the risk communication.
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
This course contributes to the realization of the UN objectives of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development