Provide students with a set of basic business tools, useful for understanding the managerial dynamics of both public and private structures.

The main learning objective is the knowledge of the principal characteristics and determinants of the markets functionings. Particular focus will be devoted to the study of the healthcare sector. Students are expected to learn how an economic policy is designed and implemented with particular regard to the understanding of the relationships between health and economic growth. Market failures will be considered as the main rationale to understand the role of governmental authorities in order to reduce social costs deriving from externalities, moral hazard, adverse selection and, in general, asymmetric information. Finally, students will learn the use of economic analysis and cost -benefit approach to evaluate public policies with particular focus to healthcare and the evaluation of new health profesisonal roles.

The educational objectives are the knowledge of the basis of general, descriptive, analytical and investigative epidemiology and the application of epidemiological methods to the study if infectious and non-communicable diseases.

Knowledge of the regulatory framework for the health and safety (H&S) protection in the workplace; knowledge of the main occupational risk factors; knowledge of prevention and protection strategies in occupational medicine. The full achievement of the occupational H&S skills and rules suitable for the professional profile of the Biomedical Laboratory Technician is expected.

Aim of the course of Legal Medicine is to provide students with knowledge of the essential elements of forensic pathology and of the rules necessary to carry out the health profession. It will be essential to acquire knowledge of the legal obligations established by current legislation and to develop the ability to recognize which acts and events have or may have legal relevance. These objectives will be achieved through frontal lectures and seminars.

At the end of the module, the students must have the salient knowledge of the history of medicine with particular regard to the fundamental stages that have characterized the evolution in the diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of the main pathologies treated.