Epidemiology
1
2022-2023
02036374
Public Health
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
5.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Throughout the theoretical classes the main topics of general epidemiology will be approached not only to provide students with knowledge of the topics. Study design and approach techniques but also demonstrate the importance of transversality in the health-disease binomial by focusing, analysing, interpreting, discussing and proposing means to their resolution or minimization.
Evaluation: Multiple choice test.
Learning Outcomes
Understand the main milestones in the History of Epidemiology, namely in Occupational Health.
- Know the main epidemiological methods, namely in the field of Occupational Health.
- Know how to use the different epidemiological techniques, and understand their adequacy to the reality of research in Occupational Health.
- Know the main types of epidemiological study and its practical applicability.
- Know how to create and apply epidemiological questionnaires and surveys.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Concept and evolution of Epidemiology.
Causal inference in Health Sciences.
Health and disease indicators.
Structure, process and result indicators in Epidemiology.
Types of epidemiological design, their adequacy, advantages and disadvantages.
Bias and confounding.
Disease prevention.
Research framework of Epidemiology and Biostatics, namely in the area of Occupational Health.
Head Lecturer(s)
Victor José Lopes Rodrigues
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
- David L.Strener & Geoffrey R.Norman, PDQ Epidemiology, pmph, 3rd ed., 2009
- Leon Gordis, Epidemiology, Elsevier. Philadelphia, 2014