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D D'alessandro

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Strategies for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: The Erice 50 Charter

2018

010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesPublic Health Environmental and Occupational Health010501 environmental sciences01 natural sciences0105 earth and related environmental sciencesEuropean Journal of Public Health
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Strategies for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: The Erice 50 Charter

2017

The Erice 50 Charter titled "Strategies for Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas" was unanimously approved at the conclusion of the 50th Residential Course "Urban Health. Instruments for promoting health and for assessing hygienic and sanitary conditions in urban areas", held from 29th March to 2nd April 2017 in Erice, at the "Ettore Majorana" Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture and promoted by the International School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine "G. D'Alessandro" and the Study Group "Building Hygiene" of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SItI). At the conclusion of the intense learning experience during the Course…

Planning and Designing StrategiesUrban HealthHealth PromotionUrban Health Public Health Built Environment Planning and Designing Strategies Health PromotionPrimary PreventionItalyPlanning and Designing Strategiebuilt environment; health promotion; planning and designing strategies; public health; urban health; public health environmental and occupational health; infectious diseasesHumansUrban Health; Public Health; Built Environment; Planning and Designing Strategies; Health promotionHealth promotionPublic HealthBuilt EnvironmentBuilt Environment; Health Promotion; Planning and Designing Strategies; Public Health; Urban Health; Health Promotion; Humans; Italy; Primary Prevention; Urban Health
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Factors influencing hospital infection control policies in Italian hospitals

2003

A study was undertaken to determine the resources available in Italian hospitals for the control of nosocomial infections and the factors favouring a successful approach. During January-May 2000 a questionnaire about infection control was sent to the hospital health director of all Italian National Health System hospitals treating acute patients and with more than 3500 admissions in 1999. An active programme was defined as a hospital infection control committee (HICC) meeting at least four times in 1999, the presence of a doctor with infection control responsibilities, a nurse employed in infection control and at least one surveillance activity and one infection control guideline issued or …

Microbiology (medical)medicine.medical_specialtyPediatricsMultivariate analysisregional policiesSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataHospital-acquired infectionmedicineHumansInfection controlfactor influencingHealth policyhospital-acquired infection; infection control; regional policiesResponse rate (survey)Cross InfectionInfection Controlhospital-acquired infectionInfection Control Practitionersbusiness.industryPublic healthInfection control; hospital-acquired infection; regional policiesGeneral MedicineGuidelineOdds ratiomedicine.diseaseOrganizational PolicyLogistic ModelsInfectious DiseasesItalyHospital Bed CapacityPopulation SurveillanceFamily medicineMultivariate AnalysisHospital-acquired infection; Infection control; Regional policies; Microbiology (medical); Infectious DiseasesbusinessJournal of Hospital Infection
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Impianto di ventilazione e condizionamento a contaminazione controllata (VCCC),contaminazione microbica dell'aria e infezione del sito chirurgico in …

2012

contaminazione sito chirurgico ISChiaSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E Applicata
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Risk of surgical site infections following hip and knee arthroplasty: Results of the ischia-gisio study

2017

Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is one of the major complications following insertion of hip or knee prosthesis. The aim of the present study was to describe rates of SSIs and associated risk factors during hip and knee prosthesis procedures in Italian hospitals. METHODS: Italian hospitals were invited to join the ISChIA (Surgical Site Infections in Arthroplasty Surgery) project and participated in the study on a voluntary basis. SSI surveillance was performed according to the Hospitals in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS) -SSI protocol. The study population consisted of all patients who had a prosthetic knee or hip joint replacement between March 2010 and Februa…

AdultMaleArthroplasty Replacement HipOperative TimeSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataYoung AdultRisk FactorsSettore MED/33 - Malattie Apparato LocomotoreHumansSurgical Wound InfectionProspective StudiesArthroplasty Replacement KneeAgedAged 80 and overInfection Risk Index Operation length Surgical site infection SurveillanceSurveillanceIncidenceEnvironmental and Occupational HealthInfection Risk IndexMiddle AgedOperation lengthinfection risk index; operation length; surgical site infection; surveillance; public health environmental and occupational health; infectious diseasesInfectious DiseasesItalyPopulation SurveillanceMultivariate AnalysisFemalePublic HealthSurgical site infection
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