Ativos Físicos e Infeção

Theoretical and practical classes.

Theoretical classes: presentation by the course coordinator or collaborators on the scheduled topics included in the program.

Practical classes: visits to hospital facilities and others, group work carried out by teams of students (research and presentation) on predefined and scheduled topics.

– To understand the structures for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections.
– To understand how active epidemiological surveillance systems for healthcare-associated infections work.
– To know the isolation standards and occupational biosafety measures for the prevention and control of infectious diseases associated with healthcare.
– To understand the concepts of cross-infection related to physical assets in non-hospital settings.

– General concepts of epidemiology and microbiology
– Healthcare-associated infections and prevention strategies
– Organization and systems of active epidemiological surveillance
– General standards for the prevention and control of colonization and infection outbreaks in healthcare facilities
– Hygiene standards and sterilization methods
– General hygiene measures applied to hospital waste, linen, and food
– Measures for assessing biological risk in the workplace, measures for the prevention and control of associated accidents.
– Diseases linked to housing and industry, and transmission through contact and vectors.
– Diseases linked to ventilation/cooling environments, and digestive and airborne transmission.
– Global warming, health, and housing clusters.

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