The teaching contributes to the achievement of the training objectives of the Pharmacy Course, providing students with the knowledge necessary to achieve the capacity to apply the epidemiological method in the study of the events within populations; for the knowledge of the epidemiological trend and of the preventive possibilities of the main infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases; for knowledge of the normal composition and processes of degradation and contamination of environmental matrices; for the knowledge of the dynamics of the relationship between food and health.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS
Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the lessons of the course the student will have to:
- achieve knowledge of the epidemiological method for the study of infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases and for the assessment of risk factors;
- know how to describe the experimental and authorization process of new drugs;
- be able to recognize preventive strategies of infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases;
- be able to describe the normal composition of environmental matrices, sources of pollution and effects on human health;
- be able to analyze the problems related to the contamination of the food vehicle.

Making of judgments
At the end of the lessons of the course the student will have to:
- be able to interpret the results of epidemiological and experimental pharmacological studies;
- be able to evaluate prevention strategies.

Communication skills
At the end of the lessons of the course the student will have to:
- know how to use the right language to provide health advice in the light of the future professional role of connection between patients, Medical Doctor and public health institutions.