Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
MED/42 (GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (28/02/2022 - 29/05/2022)
Lesson hours
8 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Learning outcomes
The course aims to be able to read, interpret and write a scientific article having the epidemiological basis to carry it out in a critical way.
Course contents
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)
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching
Reccomended or required readings
Educational material downloadable on the site: https://labstat.wixsite.com/grassi/
Assessment methods
The exam consists of a written test with binary response test (True/False)
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
Università di Pavia - Offerta formativa