Master in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences

As laid down in D.M. of 08/01/2009, this programme produces second cycle graduates with advanced training able to hold managerial positions in various health professions included in the class(Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques and Health Care).

The programme includes frontal learning activities in the classroom, internships in healthcare facilities where the students work alongside Preventive Health Care Specialists during the various professional activities and the production of a dissertation on a specific area of study concerning the specific professional profile.
The specific learning outcomes of the programme are:
- the acquisition of advanced professional competences in their field;
- the acquisition of the competences required for planning and monitoring of the specific activities;
- the acquisition of the competences required to manage healthcare professionals in this field.
Students will acquire competences in the following areas:
- Biology, Chemistry and Physics (elements of these subjects applicable to the problems linked to pollution of living and working environments);
- Botany and Agriculture (elements concerning important crops linked to problems affecting food hygiene and pollution of living environments);
- Veterinary Medicine (elements concerning animal species linked to problems affecting food hygiene and pollution of living environments);
- Law (elements of public, criminal and labour law);
- Psychology (elements of general, labour, educational and pedagogic psychology);
- Public Health (health organisation and economics for public health);
- Risk assessment (techniques of toxicological, carcinogenic and major-accident risk assessment);
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine(aspects of population health related to pollution of living and working environments and epidemiology);
- English language;
- Computing.

This programme is available in Italian.