PRINCIPLES AND LEGISLATION OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

PLESSO22

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT FOR WELFARE

Disciplinary Sector:

GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FERZETTI Francesco

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

No specific knowledge and skills are required, nor are there any prerequisite constraints.

Objectives

The course will tend to encourage learning of the essential elements of social and health services through the analysis of the principles and the most significant aspects that lie at the basis of the study of the discipline.
The educational objectives and learning outcomes contribute to the knowledge and the ability to identify the essential areas of reference such as childhood and adolescence, the family, the non self-sufficient elderly, disability, health protection, addictions and poverty generally, immigration.
The student must be able to place the knowledge within the framework of the organization of personal services and must demonstrate the ability to know how to orient himself in the main references of health legislation.

Contents

The course aims to provide the fundamental aspects of the services offered to the person and examine the main references of social and health legislation, preferring a historical-evolutionary and socio-legal approach of the principles and elements that characterize the modern paradigm, also in light of recent reforms .
In particular, the following will be studied in depth: Articles 128-133 of the legislative decree n. 112 of 1998;
law n. 84 of 23 March 1993;
law n. 328 of 2000 in the parts of interest;
L. Const. N. 3 of 2001;
law n. 180 of 1978;
law n. 833 of 1978;
Legislative Decree no. 502 of 1992; Legislative Decree no. 517 of 1993; Legislative Decree no. 229 of 1999 in the parts of interest;
law n. 184 of 1983;
law n. 104 of 1992;
law n. 68 of 1999.
During the lessons, the tools and activities that meet the needs of the individual and promote their development in the social and health sectors will be analyzed.
The lectures will be complemented by in-depth seminars on interesting topical issues.

Extended Syllabus

1. Principles, birth and evolution of assistance in Italy. The social professions.
2. Aspects of the integrated system of interventions and social services.
3. Social intervention and health protection. The concept of social and health integration.
4. The role of the third sector in the care sector.
5. Services for children and adolescents;
6. The role of the family in the service system. Social formations (school and free time).
7. Forms of assistance for non self-sufficient elderly people. The value of the support administration and other forms of disqualification.
8. Support for disability.
9. The protection of health.
10. The fight against addictions.
11. Measures to combat poverty and social exclusion.
12. Policies in support of immigration.
13. Right to health and aspects of Italian health legislation.
14. Birth and evolution of the National Health Service towards the affirmation of the universal model of interventions.
15. Principles, objectives and organization of the National Health Service.
16. The health professions. Training, role and responsibility profiles of operators.
17. The discipline of access to the records of the National Health Service. Aspects of professional secrecy and office secrecy.
18. Specific regulatory references regarding voluntary termination of pregnancy, informed consent, living will and organ donation.

Recommended Bibliography

One to be chosen from the following texts:
P. Ferrario, Politiche sociali e servizi, Carocci Faber, Roma, ult. ed.,limited to parts I and III;
F. Ferzetti, L’assistenza sociale, Esculapio, Bologna, 2022;
E. Neve, Il Servizio sociale. Fondamenti e cultura di una professione, Carocci Faber, Roma, ult. ed.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination

Contacts/More Information

The program is the same for attending and non-attending students

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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