The learning objective is to give students essential elements for the knowledge, management and prevention of hygienic and sanitary risks relating to sport activities and environments.  

The most common infectious diseases acquired in sport environments: wound infections, skin diseases, airborne, enteric and sexually transmitted diseases. Outdoor sport and risks of infection vectors. Immunoprophylaxis in athletes. International travels and health risks in travelling athletes. Prophylaxis in international travels. 

Safety and health in sport activities and environments. Epidemiology of injuries in sport. Regulation about sport facilities (elements of CONI, FMSI and sport federation regulations), with particular regards to those attaining to user safety and health. 

Indoor sport facilities. Sports hall and school sports hall types. Environmental features and evaluation of health and safety: microclimate, lighting, air conditioning. Allergens and allergic sensitization.

Techniques of sanification, disinfection, disinfestation. Health risks deriving from disinfection byproducts.

Swimming pools for sport and recreational use. Potential health hazard identification during maintenance and management of sport environments. Self assessment: quality assessment manual; register of technical and functional data, register of water control. Guide lines for legionellosis prevention and control; preventive measures in swimming pools. Guide lines on legionellosis for managers of tourist accommodations and thermal facilities. Drowning and injury risks. Bio swimming pools.

Outdoor sport environments and hygiene. Changing rooms and restroom facilities.

Atmospheric air. Definition and physiological importance of air. Bioclimatic discomfort indexes. Bioclimatology and sport. Climate classification and their influence on human health. Acclimatization and climate-dependent physiologic crisis. Thermoregulation systems and thermal imbalance diseases. Health effects of pressure altitude and diving. Low and high barometric pressure illnesses. Clothing: physical and physiologic properties. Thermal resistance. Sport-specific clothing.

Epidemiology of doping and health effects.

School hygiene. 

Students should achieve: 1. knowledge and skills of understanding: becoming able to recognize and identify hygienic-sanitary risks during sport activities and in related environments. Students can achieve those knowledges through attendance to lessons and seminars, and studying teaching material indicated by the teacher. 2. Capability to apply knowledge and comprehension by developing a multidisciplinary approach in the analysis and management of health resiks in sport activities and facilities. Capabilities to find information and data, with in-depth theoretical and empirical analyses. Results are obtained by discussion during lessons, seminars and biblioraphic studies, also on the web. 3. Capability of judgment: through the development of capabilities of critical and detailed evaluation about health problems during sport activities . Such capability will be achieved during lessons by discussion with the teacher and other students, and during the exam. 4. Communication skills: by participating and discussing during lessons with the teacher and other students. The student will be encouraged to use informatic tools for communication. 5. Learning skills: by the development of abilities to analyse and evaluate problems, also by the search of “on line” bibliographic material;  students could achieve capability to elaborate information and knowledge, also in the field of technical regulations.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Frontal lessons.

Course books

Brandi, Liguori, Romano Spica: Igiene e Sanità Pubblica per Scienze Motorie. A. Delfino Editore. Other material available on: www.wikigiene.it

Lanciotti: Igiene. Medicina sociale e di comunità. McGraw-Hill Ed.

Assessment

An oral exam will be used to assess learning outcomes. The grade is in a 30-point scale. Knowledge and skills of understanding will be evaluated through specific questions about program topics; capability to apply knowledge in a professional context, relevant with sport and physical activities, and capability of judgment about hygiene of sport will be assessed; communication skills will be verified through clear speaking ability and use of technical words.  

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Frontal lessons.

Course books

Brandi, Liguori, Romano Spica: Igiene e Sanità Pubblica per Scienze Motorie. A. Delfino Editore. Other material available on: www.wikigiene.it

Lanciotti: Igiene. Medicina sociale e di comunità. McGraw-Hill Ed.

Assessment

An oral exam will be used to assess learning outcomes. The grade is in a 30-point scale. Knowledge and skills of understanding will be evaluated through specific questions about program topics; capability to apply knowledge in a professional context, relevant with sport and physical activities, and capability of judgment about hygiene of sport will be assessed; communication skills will be verified through clear speaking ability and use of technical words.  

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.