EPIDEMIOLOGY, STATISTICS AND ELEMENTS OF PREVENTION

Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

6-year Single Cycle Master's Degree Programme in MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Language:

Italian

Moduls:

MEDICAL STATISTICS

5 credits
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ELEMENTS OF PREVENTION

2 credits

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

40000308

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Course test written (multiple choice quiz and exercises).

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The student will have to learn teorethical knownledge, practical capacity and methodological criteria in evaluating sciences.
1) The student must acquire the skills to understand and measure the phenomena of health and illness
2) The student must acquire the knowledge to draw and carry on a research project
3) The student must acquire knowledge to draw and carry out an epidemiological study
4) The student must acquire knowledge in the field of statistical and epidemiological analysis of the sanitary data
5) The student must acquire knowledge about the inferential analyzes

Contents

Evidence-based medicine. Observational and experimental studies. Design of a scientific study. Assessment of a scientific article. Statistical terminology. Variables. Principles of uni-, bi-, and multivariate statistics. Frequency distribution. Plots and tables. Central tendency indicators. Variability indicators. Principles of probability. Bayesian probability. Diagnostic test indicators. Normal probability distribution. Population and sample. Sampling techniques. Hypothesis test. Correlation and regression.
Definition of epidemiology. Historical evolution of epidemiology. Source of data. Demographic data. Measurement in epidemiology. Direct and indirect standardization. Descriptive epidemiology. Analytic epidemiology. Rates and risk in epidemiology. Attributable risk. Cross-sectional studies and sampling surveys. Cohort studies.Introduction to bias and confounding. Experimental design

Recommended Bibliography

- Armitage P. Statistica medica. Feltrinelli Ed.Milano.
- Daniel W. Biostatistics: a foundation for analysis in the health sciences. WILEY.
- Daniel W. Biostatistica: concetti di base per l’analisi statistica delle scienze dell’area medico-sanitaria. EdiSES.
- Pagano M., Gauvreau K. Biostatistica. Ed. Gnocchi.
- Lantieri P.B., Risso D., Ravera G. Elementi di Statistica Medica. The McGraw-Hill Companies, S.r.l.
- Jekel J.F., Katz D.L., Elmore J.G, Wild D.M.G. Epidemiologia, Biostatistica e Medicina Preventiva. Elsevier-Masson.
- Dunn G., Everitt B. Biostatistica clinica: una introduzione alla evidence-based medicine. Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore.
- Campbell M.J., Machin D. Statistica medica: un approccio Evidence-based. Wiley.
- Fabbrocini G., Quarto M. Statistica medica: guida multimediale alla metodologia statistica in medicina. Esselibri-Simone.
- Bland M. Statistica medica. Apogeo.
- Glantz S.A. Statistica per discipline biomediche. The McGraw-Hill Companies, S.r.l.
Barbuti S, Bellelli E, Fara GM, Giammanco G. Igiene e Medicina Preventiva. Volume I. Monduzzi editore.
-Slides and other didactic tools

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures and lessons.

Contacts/More Information

Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language (English) to incoming students.
Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language (English).

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