The health care assistant is a professional not directly involved in curing , but in preventing certain types of diseases (such as infectious, chronic-degenerative or occupational ones) and maintaining the health of the person as a whole. This course will allow you to acquire knowledge (concerning general medicine and specialist clinical, psycho-pedagogical, socio-health and organisational subjects) useful for the profession; its practical approach will allow you to understand how to identify health needs, to better plan health prevention and health promotion activities, also in relation to the social, cultural and environmental context. You will be able to enter the job market directly, mainly in public structures (but also in private ones) and acting in close collaboration with multiple professionals.