Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia - Guida degli insegnamenti (Syllabus)
Students will be expected to have General Knowledge provided by the biomedical disciplines studied during the previous years.
Lectures, practical exercises in small groups (tests, exercises , PBL , bibliographic research ).
At the end of the course the student will be able to demonstrate: knowledge of the general concept of health and its determinants, knowledge of the epidemiologic studies’ methodology and interpretation of results.
HEALTH PROMOTION AND BACKGROUND OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Concept of health and its determinants.
Health information systems.
Principles and strategies for health promotion
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Epidemiological methodology : measures of frequency (prevalence and incidence) measures of association (relative risk and odds ratio), statistical significance, standardization of rates: direct and indirect standardization.
Objectives of epidemiology and main types of epidemiological studies, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, experimental studies .
PubMed: the search engine for scientific literature in biomedical area .
Systematic reviews and meta-analyzes.
Evidence-based prevention. Clinical guidelines design and implementation.
Final verification by 2 modes:
1 . Individual, written by multiple choice quizzes .
2 . As a group , review of literature and presentation of results.
Auxilia F. Pontello M. Igiene e Sanità Pubblica. I fondamenti della Prevenzione. Piccin 2011.
Guidelines and other documentation provided during the course.
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