Epidemiology Applied to Food Safety

Recommended Prerequisites

The recommended prerequisites include what is taught in the 1 st cycle courses in the area of Pharmacy, Medicine, Veterinary, Nutrition, and Agricultural, Bioanalytical, Biological, Chemical Sciences or Engineering or, other courses considered appropriate by the FFUC Scientific Council.

Teaching Methods

Lectures: lectures with a strong component of dialogue and application in practical cases, essentially using the visual media ("date show").

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit has as general goals:

The knowledgment of the most important epidemiologic and statistical methodologies;

The importance of epidemiology and statistics in research methodology;

To identify, use and interpret statistical techniques appropriated to each research;

To apply the acquired knowledge in the food safety area.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Concept and historical evolution of epidemiology

Causal inference

Research designs: experimental and non-experimental (descriptive and inferencial)

Impact and risk magnitude indicators

Bias adequacy, design, detection and control

Base statistical tests

The use of epidemiology methodology and statistical techniques in food safety area

Head Lecturer(s)

Victor José Lopes Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 25.0%
Exam: 75.0%

Bibliography

Beaglehole R, Bonita, Kjellstrom. Basic Epidemiology. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2006.

Mausner JS, Kramer S. Introdução à epidemiologia. Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004.

Last JM. A Dictionary of Epidemiology. New York, Oxford University Press, 2016.

Swinscow TDV, Campbell MJ. Statistics at square one. London, BMJ Books, 2021