Università Roma Tre

AIMS OF THE COURSE

To deal with the main problems of Social Medicine, also with reference to the principles of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Medicine.

- The scope and the definition of Social Medicine;
- Public Health and the Health care-organization;
- The concept of health;
- Health protection: the section 32 of Italian Constitution;
- Environment life style, nutrition and health
- The concept of disease;
- Social disease
- Mental disease. Insanity. Social dangerousness;
- The hospitalization and the commitment;
- Judicial psychiatric hospitals, Therapeutic Communities and Drug rehabilitation centers, REMS;
- The doctor-patient relationship
-- the anamnesis
-- the clinical interview
-- the medical examination
-- the informed consent
- Drugs and alcohol: social and medical problems;
- New Addiction Disorders: affective addiction, sex addiction, work addiction, Internet addiction, compulsive buying disorder, gambling addiction
- Social impact HIV: AIDS and risk behavior
- The Legal Medicine, the social security and the protection of the disability;
- Responsible motherhood and abortion: the therapeutic abortion and the criminal abortion;
- Social security and protection of the disabled: incapacitation, disqualification, support administration
- Occupational diseases and Occupational Medicine;
- Causal connection in occupational diseases;
- Psychosocial risk factors: the stress;
- Work-related stress and Burn Out;
- Mobbing and biological damage;
- Occupational safety and health
- Senescence: social aspects
- Social medicine and the road accident rate

Eudes Lanciotti, "Igiene - Medicina sociale e di comunità", McGraw-Hill
Only the following chapters: 1, 2, 11, 12, 13.

It is also requested to study the lecture notes and the slides available at http://epc.uniroma3.it/BachecaDocente.aspx?code=601186