CODE 67824 ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024 CREDITS 2 cfu anno 1 SCIENZE RIABILITATIVE DELLE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE 9285 (LM/SNT2) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/42 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: POPULATION AND HEALTH STATISTICS / EPIDEMIOLOGY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW Science that aims to analyze the illnesses in the populations, with particular respect to the study of the conditions and their determinants. AIMS AND CONTENT AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The course has the following objectives: - providing knowledges to the basic epidemiology concepts; - providing knowledges to apply the main measures used in epidemiology (frequency and association measures); - providing knowledges to the basic concepts of demography and to know the technical of standardization; - providing knowledges to know and to plan the main types of epidemiological studies (descriptive, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort studies); - providing knowledges to the methodology of clinical trials; -providing knowledges to the concepts and model of epidemiology monitoring with attention to the syndromic surveillance system; - providing knowledges to understand the epidemiology relevance for health planning and to develop the critical abilities to evaluate the results of clinical and epidemiological studies. TEACHING METHODS Frontal lessons. SYLLABUS/CONTENT - Epidemiology: definition and objectives; - Measuring the health care events: absolute frequencies, relationships, proportions and rates, incidence, prevalence, mortality, lethality; - Measuring the health care events in a static and dynamic cohort; - The evaluation of the risks, the needs and the effectiveness in Public Health; - Epidemiological surveillance and management of an outbreak; - Describing the state of health of the population: the descriptive epidemiological studies; - Providing knowledges about the associations in epidemiology: the cohort and case-control studies; - The experimental epidemiological studies: the randomised controlled trial and community trial. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY - Lopalco PL, Tozzi AE "Epidemiologia facile Il pensiero scientifico" - Jekel JF, Katz DL, Elmore JG "Epidemiologia, biostatistica e medicina preventiva" EdiSES TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD SEBASTIANO LA MAESTRA Exam Board MAURO COSTAGLI (President) SEBASTIANO LA MAESTRA ALESSIO SIGNORI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course) LESSONS LESSONS START The lessons will start in the first semester Class schedule EPIDEMIOLOGY EXAMS ASSESSMENT METHODS The examination test is formed by multiple-choice questions and exercises. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 22/02/2024 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 29/02/2024 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 11/03/2024 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 04/07/2024 14:30 GENOVA Scritto 12/09/2024 14:30 GENOVA Scritto Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals Good health and well being