- Docente: Lamberto Manzoli
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/42
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)
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from Mar 20, 2024 to Apr 24, 2024
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, the student will have acquired the essentials of epidemiology for public health, determinants of health, prevention of infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases, environmental and food hygiene, and hospital hygiene.
Course contents
Basics of Epidemiology
Characteristics of observational (ecological, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort studies) and experimental (randomized clinical trials) epidemiological studies
Concept of bias and confounding
Epidemiological measures
Absolute risk and relative risk: relevance to clinical and public health choices
The three steps of epidemiology
Statistical inference, confidence limits
Significance: statistical versus clinical
Finding the scientific evidence and the importance of the epidemiological method for health research and organization
The tools of Evidence Based Medicine: reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, guidelines and diagnostic-therapeutic protocols
Concepts of health technology assessment
The interpretation of clinical trial results
Basics of Applied Hygiene
Causes of disease and risk factors
Epidemiology and general prophylaxis of infectious diseases and major chronic degenerative diseases
Health promotion and disease prevention
Prevention, system and individual strategies, lifestyles: importance and complexity
Active and passive prophylaxis, immunoprophylaxis, vaccines
Disinfection and sterilization
Readings/Bibliography
Manzoli L, Villari P, Boccia A. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità. Elementi di Metodologia (2° Ed.). Edi-Ermes, 2015.
Teaching methods
Lectures, tutorials with case studies
Assessment methods
The examination will be oral, in-person.
Teaching tools
Power Point slides.
Office hours
See the website of Lamberto Manzoli