Epidemiology

 

LEARNING RESULTS

The Basic Epidemiology course provides a thorough introduction to epidemiology as the basic science concerned with the study of the distribution of various diseases and/or characteristics in human ‘populations’, as well as with the investigation of causal factors that shape or can influence these the allocations.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will have understood the basic concepts of epidemiology as well as the basic principles and methods of descriptive and analytical epidemiology. Particularly:

• who has understood the objects of epidemiology and its uses in public health
• will have understandings of the concepts of cause, effect and statistical correlation
• will know the sources of epidemiological data and be able to search for, evaluate and use epidemiological data
• will understand the concepts of incidence and prevalence and be able to estimate morbidity and mortality rates. In addition, you will understand the concept of prototyping and become familiar with the processes of direct and indirect prototyping.
• will understand the basic principles of descriptive epidemiological studies and become familiar with the development of relevant protocols
• will acquire the ability to formulate causal hypotheses
• will understand the basic principles of analytical epidemiological studies and become familiar with the development of relevant protocols
• will understand the characteristics of analytical epidemiological designs, their advantages, disadvantages and be able to identify and recognize them appropriately.
  The laboratory part of the course will include further familiarizing students with the concepts and methods, while enabling them to choose the methods to be applied against, as well as to recognize their advantages and limitations.

 

 

GENERAL SKILLS
Adaptation to new situations
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Autonomous work
Teamwork
Work in an interdisciplinary environment
Generating new research ideas
Project planning and management
Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
Respect for the natural environment
Demonstrating social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
Exercise criticism and self-criticism
Promotion of mental thinking, creative and inductive
Work in an interdisciplinary environment

 

 

COURSE CONTENT

The course includes lectures and laboratory exercises in the additional core modules:

Basic concepts in epidemiology
Purposes and uses of epidemiology
Epidemiology and public health
Causation, causation and statistical correlation
Sources of epidemiological evidence
Indicators of morbidity, mortality and quality of life
Basic epidemiological research designs (characteristics, advantages, disadvantages and appropriate application in research cases)
Descriptive epidemiological studies
Analytical non-experimental epidemiological investigations
Analytical experimental epidemiological investigations
Presentation of epidemiological data
Interpretation of results—Assessing the role of chance, error, and confounding

 

 

STUDENT EVALUATION

Written/Oral final exam (100%) including:

Multiple choice questions
Resolve problems/cases

 

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Τριχόπουλος, Δ. & Λάγιου, Π. 2011. Γενική και Κλινική Επιδημιολογία. Αρχές, Μέθοδοι και Εφαρμογές στην ιατρική έρευνα και τη δημόσια υγεία, Εκδόσεις Παρισιάνος, Αθήνα
• Τριχόπουλος, Δ 2004. Επιδημιολογία. Εκδόσεις Παρισιανός, Αθήνα
• Rothman, KJ, Greenland, S., Lash, TL 2008. Modern Epidemiology. Έκδοση 3η. Lippincott Williams και Wilkins
• Rothman, K. 2002. Epidemiology: An Introduction. Τύπος του Πανεπιστημίου της Οξφόρδης
• Hennekens, CH & Buring, JE 1987. Επιδημιολογία στην ιατρική. Little Brown
• Porta, MA 2008. Λεξικό Επιδημιολογίας. Miquel Porta Oxford University Press

Related scientific journals

1.       International Journal of Epidemiology

2.       American Journal of Epidemiology

3.       European Journal of Epidemiology

4.       Epidemiology and Public Health

5.       Epidemiology and Community Health

6.       Annals of Epidemiology

7.       Epidemiology Journal

World Health Organization Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

 

EUDOXUS

• Γενική και Κλινική Επιδημιολογία, Δ. ΤΡΙΧΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, Π.Δ. ΛΑΓΙΟΥ Λεπτομέρειες
• Επιδημιολογία, Δ. ΤΡΙΧΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ Λεπτομέρειες