Epidemiology and Public Health

An expositive-active methodology is used. The exhibition will focus on the identification and understanding of the basic theoretical concepts of Public Health and Epidemiology. Presentation of epidemiological models, application of research methods with the Implementation of statistical measures accompanied by practical exercises in the
classroom.
The evaluation will have the following classification (weight) per matriz: Theoretical Matrix (50%) and Theoretical¬Practical (50%) and will have the following moments:
Continuous Assessment: two tests (written tests). Students who obtain a classification lower than 7.5 values (Scale from O to 20 values) in the 1st Frequency are prevented from participating in the 2nd Frequency. The final grade will result from the average of the marks obtained in the two evaluation. Students with a final average of 9.5 or more will be excused from the final exam.
Assessment by Exam: will cover ali the material taught in the discipline (scale from 0 to 20).

The student should acquire knowledge about “Public Health” and “Epidemiology”, from the origins (formation and theoretical currents) to the present, mastering the basic and methodological principies of research in epidemiology with application to public health and clinicai practice. At the levei of skills, the student will gather a set of skills to assess / study phenomena both in terms of their etiology and in terms of the expression of morbidity and mortality with the application of statistical measures that assess the frequency and importance of the disease, or other outcome, and its relationship with disease surveillance. In terms of competences, the student should acquire a relatively extensive view of the themes of public health and epidemiology associated with medicai (scientific) research.

Part I – Public Health: Evolutionary perspective of public health until today (Individual Health; Public Health; Preventive Medicine; Social Medicine and Community Medicine).
Part II: Epidemiology (introduction); Health and Illness and Health Outcomes (Positive and Negative); Determinants (Risk and Protection); The Etiology and Natural History of Diseases; Prevention leveis.
Part III: The study of health and disease taking into account “Time”; “Place” and “Person”; Mechanisms and Causes of Diseases; The Triadic relationship: Host, Agent and Environment (the Vector); The “Risk Factor” and its classification; Types of Causal Relationship and common pitfalls in Investigation.
Part IV: Epidemiology Research Designs (Observational Designs vs. Experimental Designs). Descriptive measures in Epidemiology (Rates, Reasons and Proportions); The basic measures: Incidence and Prevalence Coefficients; Effect and Association Coefficients; Diagnostic and Compliance Measures.

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