Teaching Methodologies
Classes of theoretical exposition
Lessons with exercises for self-assessment ot tne syllabus
The lectures will be expository and will have as its main objective the realization of exercises for application to the content taught as well as reading and interpreting scientific articles exercises. Are reserved six hours for evaluation to the completion of various forms of self-assessment exercises to diagnose. The final written evaluation has the structure of the records held in the group class.
The delivery in electronic form of the resolved records (ER) is worth 5 points.
The interpretation of a scientific study in physiotherapy epidemiological nature (EC) is worth 5 points The writing frequency (F) holds the remaining 10 values.
Thus the final classification results from the following formula:
ER 5+ 5 +10 FEC
Learning Results
It is essential to associate the clinicai practice with the knowledge of disease distribution and risk factors correlated with the most prevalent diseases. This course is to teach how to investigate in the health field and understand the epidemiology of diseases. Students shall be able to: understand basic concepts used in epidemiology; know the existing epidemiological studies; interpret correctly the basic demographic characteristics of a population; properly prepare a contingency table to be able to calculate relative risks, odds ratios, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy; calculate measures of frequency, association and impact; understand the nine causality criteria of Bradford-Hill; identify problems that may arise in an epidemiological study – bias and confounding.
Program
Presentation of Fundamental Epidemiology.
Notions of basic concepts used in epidemiology.
Epidemiological studies
Population dynamics and health: factors of population dynamics.
Interpretation of population pyramids.
Diagnostic tests: sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative and predictive value.
Causality criteria of Bradford-Hill:
1.Temporal Relationship
2.Strength
3.Dose-Response Relationship
4.Consistency
5.Plausibility
6.Consideration of Alternate Explanations
7.Experiment
8. Specificity
9. Coherence
Epidemiological characters: person, time, place.
Problems in epidemiologic studies: bias and confounding.
Validity and accuracy.
Measures of association: relative risk and odds ratio.
Measures of impact: attributable risk.
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Bonita, R., Beaglehole, R., & Kjellstrõm, T. (2010). Epidemiologia Básica. (World Health Organization, Ed.) (2nd ed.). São Paulo: Santos.