Hygiene Discipline is one of the most important disciplines of UMFCD because it adressea a branch that today recieves a special attention: prevention, prevention of diseases of any kind. Starting from the well-known saying "it is easier to prevent than to treat" Hygiene deals with the preservation and promotion of health. In today's world, more and more factors of life and work environment tend to have a harmful action on the human body. From factors related to diet, to factors in the environment or at work, modern society tends to overload the defense mechanisms of metabolic and contribute to the onset of major diseases. If the begining of this discipline, the focus was on prevention of infectious contagious leading causes of illness and death at the time, today we focus on chronic diseases, degenerative, often called diseases of abundance, and that is on top in morbidity and current mortality. Practice has shown that these conditions can be prevented or improved by introducing measures incremental corrects mistakes food or action of environmental factors harmful and that the minimum investment in prevention, it reduces human suffering, and enormous financial burden individual and collective which itself draws from the need for long journeys treatment of chronic patients.

At our discipline, students come into contact with modern notions of disease risk assessment under the influence of a multitude of environmental and nutritional factors. They are also familiar with healthy lifestyle elements with modern techniques for assessing food intake or physical activity levels. The courses and practical applications are interactive and are made with modern techniques of assisted teaching digital course materials and exhaustive presentations.

Main research directions addressed by our discipline so far are evaluating food intake, risk analysis related to environmental factors and food, health promotion with special emphasis on nutritional factors / food assessing quality of life in population group diverse in Romania, analyze alternative forms of diet and their effects on health, deficiencies / nutritional deficiencies and their prevention, etc.