20110765 - Activity: “One Health” health protection beyond national and disciplinary borders

Provide students with an in-depth analysis of a crucial topic in the ethical framework of contemporary constitutional democracy, as well as in the public opinion. Encourage students in engaging in critical discussions amongst them, and with the invited speakers (which will be expected to provide a methodologically and substantially diverse approach to the topic).
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Programme

1) History of health protection. The national dimension: from a matter of public policy to a fundamental right and community interest.
2) History of health protection. The international dimension: from the management of transnational threats to health as a means of maintaining peace and security among nations to the affirmation of the fundamental right to "possession of the best possible state of health."
3) The effects of globalization on the right to health. Focus on communicable diseases and international instruments for their management.
4) "One Health" from approach to strategy. History of a concept and its evolution in the era of pandemics.


Core Documentation

Course materials will be indicated to students at the beginning of class and made available on the e-learning portal

Type of evaluation

The course "One Health" the protection of health across national and disciplinary boundaries will be held in the second semester of the academic year (March-May) and will involve lectures by the lecturer and experimental activities. In particular, the experimental activities require the active participation of students in the discussion and reworking of issues addressed in the classroom downstream from the reading of recommended texts. Frontal lectures will be conducted online and delivered at the time to be specified.