Higher education and training in Nutrition-related fields in Italy and Europe Furio Brighenti Area of Human Nutrition Department of Public Health
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Health claim made on Children??!!
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The science of nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific dietary aspects influence health by explaining metabolic and physiological responses of the body to food, food components and diets. With advances in molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics, nutrition science is additionally developing into the study of metabolism, which seeks to disconnect diet and health through the lens of biochemical processes
Research in Human Nutrition has reached a high standard of quality and can be regarded as a autonomous area in the field of health and life sciences .. UNIPR-EFSA Conference, 4 October 2007
Nutrition is a multidisciplinary area of science whose peculiarities are increasingly acknowledged in both the job market and the higher education system
The Higher education system in the field of Human Nutrition
Like other emerging fields of science, it covers multiple domains in the areas of health and life sciences, therefore requiring substantially different training skills, depending on the professional objectives. .
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Food Science Nutrition is the study of food Dietetics is a health composition, profession for specialists manufacturing and Dietetics Publicto Health Nutrition Food Science trained provide safe, distribution to ensure focuses on the promotion evidence based dietary Nutrition optimal nutritional quality of good health through advice and interventions in of the food supply nutrition both, health and and physical disease. activity and the prevention of related illness in the Clinical Nutrition population Nutrigenomics Clinical, Nutrition is a Nutrigenomics is the therapeutic adjunct to System Biology study of molecular human disease treatment. relationships betweenHealth It is an important part of Public nutrition and the response therapy administered of genes, with theNutrition aim of under medical extrapolating how such responsibility subtle changes can affect UNIPR-EFSA Conference, 4 October 2007 human health
Health disciplines
Basic disciplines
How many disciplines may human nutrition include?
Human Nutrition education at European level
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Food sciences Dietetics/Human nutrition
Human Nutrition at European level
Wide differences in curricula, training, title recognition, LLL (life-long learning).
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The Bologna Process aims to Human Nutrition at create a European Higher European level Education Area by 2010, in which students can choose from a wide and transparent range of high quality courses and benefit The three priorities of the from smooth recognition Bologna process are: procedures. Introduction of the three cycle system (bachelor/master/doctorate), quality assurance and recognition of qualifications and periods of study UNIPR-EFSA Conference, 4 October 2007
Lauree tecnico/scientifiche Lauree sanitarie a ciclo unico
I Liv. (Ms.)
Laurea (Bachelor)
Laurea Magistrale (Master)
II Liv. (Ms.)
The Italian Higher education system
Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.)
Scuola di specializzazione (D.Spec.) Laurea sanitaria (Bachelor) Scuola di specializzazione (D.Spec.) Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia (M.D.)
Laurea in Medicina Veterinaria (V.D.)
Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) Scuola di specializzazione (D.Spec.)
Laurea in Farmacia (Pharmacist)
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The Italian Higher education system Dottorato di Ricerca in the field of (Ph.D.) Human Nutrition
II Liv. (Ms.) Food Science & Techn., Biology (Bachelor)
Nutrition Sciences (Master)
Scuola di specializzazione Scienze dell’Alimentazione – Applied Nutrition (D.Spec.)
Dietician (Bachelor)
Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia (M.D.)
Laurea in Medicina Veterinaria (V.D.)
Laurea in Farmacia (Pharmacist)
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Scuola di specializzazione Scienze dell’Alimentazione – Clinical Nutrition (D.Spec.)
Scuola di specializzazione Scienze dell’Alimentazione – Applied Nutrition (D.Spec.)
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The Italian Higher education system in the field of Human Nutrition
Dietician (Bachelor)
dell’Alimentazione – Applied Nutrition (D.Spec.)
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