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17387
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(30H)
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| Scientific area |
Health Sciences
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Entry requirements |
Na
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Learning outcomes |
Acquire basic knowledge in the subject area of General Epidemiology and Health Community
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Syllabus |
Course unit contents/Syllabus
1. Definition of Epidemiology, its objectives and methods. Historical evolution.
2. Epidemiology and quality management in healthcare organizations.
3. A community health indicators, calculation and interpretation. Data sources.
4. Measuring health and disease - measures frequency
5. Natural History of a Disease, Prevention levels and their inter-elation.
6. Epidemiologic Studies, its characteristics, indications and limitations. Measures of frequency, association and impact.
7. Screening and diagnostic tests.
8. Characteristics of diagnostic tests.
9. Introduction to Epidemiology of infectious diseases.
10. Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology.
11. MBE, NNT
12. Fundamentals of statistics for the reading epidemiological studies.
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Main Bibliography |
Recommended or required reading
- David G. Kleinbaum; Kevin M. Sullivan; Nancy D. Barker; A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology. 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- Jørn Olsen; Kaare Christensen; Jeff Murray; Anders Ekbom; An Introduction to Epidemiology for Health Professionals. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
- Rothman, Kenneth J.; Greenland, Sander; Lash, Timothy L.
Modern Epidemiology - 3rd Edition2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Beaglehole, R; Bonita, R; Kjellstrom, T;(2003)Epidemiologia Básica. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública
- Rothman, Kenneth J.; Greenland, Sander; Lash, Timothy L. Modern Epidemiology - 3rd Edition2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Martina Morris; Network Epidemiology: A Handbook for Survey Design and Data Collection Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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