2019/2020

2020/2021

DM270

MED/42 (GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE)

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS

MEDICINE AND SURGERY

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (01/03/2021 - 15/06/2021)

1

8 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

GAETA MADDALENA - 1 ECTS

1 Definition and aim of epidemiology
2 Notions of demography: census, population structure indices, population pyramid, Lexis's curve
3 Mortality and birth rate data, notification of infectious diseases, hospital sources, pathology records
4 Epidemiological frequency measures (punctual prevalence, periodic prevalence, incidence,
cumulative incidence, person/time incidence, attack rate)
5 Statistical associations and cause-and-effect associations (risk measures and population impact measures, odds-ratio)
6 Diagnostic tests and screening campaigns, characteristics of screening tests (Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of a test)

Frontal teaching

Educational material downloadable on the site: https://labstat.wixsite.com/grassi/

The exam consists of a written test with binary response test (True/False)

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