78853 - Environmental Epidemiology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences (cod. 8878)

Learning outcomes

The main objective of this course is to provide basic knowledge on the following items:

-principles of the evidence-based medicine and prevention

-distribution of environmental diseases 

-introduction to the main methods of the epidemiological studies used in public health

Course contents

- epidemiology of environmental diseases

- non-occupational, domestic and environmental asbestos exposure

- benzene and particulate from motorvehicle exhaust

- evaluating effectiveness of preventive interventions

Readings/Bibliography

Environmental Epidemiology. Study methods and application. Edited by Dean Baker and Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Working in small groups using the computer room as well

Assessment methods

Writing an essay on the evaluation of the effectiveness of a preventive intervention stating the criteria used to search the literature

Oral examination: discussion of the essay and answer two questions

Teaching tools

Teaching materials that can be downloaded through AMS CAMPUS

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Mattioli