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B020272 - GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGENE
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Experimantal and Clinical Medicine
Modulo di sola Frequenza of
Scientific Area
MED/42 - HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Credits
2
Teaching Hours
16
Teaching Term
05/10/2016 ⇒ 30/04/2018
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Giudizio Finale
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B020347 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
Second Cycle Degree in HEALTH PROFESSIONS OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES (DIAGNOSTIC)
B020347 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
Second Cycle Degree in HEALTH PROFESSIONS OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES (DIAGNOSTIC)
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Introduction to epidemiological studies. Descriptive studies. Measures of morbidity and mortality. The health indicators for population. Data sources in epidemiology. Introduction to the assessment of the associations between exposures and outcomes.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Documents provided by the teacher.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and understanding: Know and understand the risk factors and protective factors related to diseases of wider dissemination and impact. Know and understand the main health indicators, including predictors and proxy
Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to identify the health needs of the individual, at-risk groups and populations. Ability to set a critical thinking on the assessment of the exposures and on the association between exposures and outcomes.
Making judgments: being able to analyze phenomena related to the discipline
Communication skills: know and use terminology
appropriate
Learning skills: knowing how to build an independent in-depth study of specific issues addressed during the course.
Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to identify the health needs of the individual, at-risk groups and populations. Ability to set a critical thinking on the assessment of the exposures and on the association between exposures and outcomes.
Making judgments: being able to analyze phenomena related to the discipline
Communication skills: know and use terminology
appropriate
Learning skills: knowing how to build an independent in-depth study of specific issues addressed during the course.
Prerequisites
Nothing
Teaching Methods
Lectures, group interactive activities.
Type of Assessment
Disciplinary happy will be verified by written a modes.
Course program
Introduction to epidemiological studies. Descriptive studies. Measures of morbidity and mortality. The health indicators for population.
Data sourses in epidemiology: registers and databases, surveillance systems, questionnaire.
The us of biomarkers in epidmeiology.
Introduction to the assessment of the associations between exposures and outcomes: etiological agents and risk factors, hills criteria of causation, the sufficient-component cause model.
Data sourses in epidemiology: registers and databases, surveillance systems, questionnaire.
The us of biomarkers in epidmeiology.
Introduction to the assessment of the associations between exposures and outcomes: etiological agents and risk factors, hills criteria of causation, the sufficient-component cause model.