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Hygiene, Epidemiology and a Preventive Medicine A. - C2VL003
Title: Hygiena, epidemiologie a preventivní lékařství A.
Guaranteed by: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 3FM CU (12-EPID)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 1
E-Credits: 1
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/10, C [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Marek Petráš, Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Introduction of epidemiology, terminology, epidemiological studies, their interpretation and evaluation of results, epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status, trends in epidemiology
Last update: Dáňová Jana, MUDr., Ph.D. (29.11.2019)
Aim of the course -

Inform students about terminology used in epidemiology, epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status, basic characteristics of population studies, the ways of planning, organization, interpretation and evaluation of studies. All practical topics are illustrated by model situation solving.

Last update: Dáňová Jana, MUDr., Ph.D. (29.11.2019)
Course completion requirements -

HEPM 2 - Topics:

1. Epidemiological Methods
2. Types of Epidemiological Studies
3. Frequency Measures
4. Effect Size
5. Screening and Validity of Diagnostic Tests

Requirements:

• 80% attendance at practicum
• Credit test: 30 multiple-choice questions, with a minimum of 24 correct answers required for passing

Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
Literature -

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

 

David L. Heymann, MD, Editor, ISBN 0-87553-034-6 soft cover, ISBN 0-87553-035-4 hardcover

Last update: Dáňová Jana, MUDr., Ph.D. (29.11.2019)
Teaching methods -

• Lectures
• Practical Exercises
• Eductional Material: “Brief Overview: General Epidemiology”
• Computer Technology: smartphone, tablet, or laptop for practical exercises—preparation for the credit test

Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

HEPM 2 - Topics:

1. Epidemiological Methods
2. Types of Epidemiological Studies
3. Frequency Measures
4. Effect Size
5. Screening and Validity of Diagnostic Tests

Requirements:

• 80% attendance at practicum
• Credit test: 30 multiple-choice questions, with a minimum of 24 correct answers required for passing

Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
Syllabus -

Hygiene, epidemiology and preventive medicine

Epidemiology methods

 

Lectures

Development and use of epidemiological methods

The terminology used in epidemiology, basic characteristics of epidemiological studies, examples of different types of studies, their planning, design, and conducting, evaluation of results

Epidemiologic aspects of the evaluation of health status

Methods of evaluation of health status, explanation of the terminology used, basic characteristics of population studies, measures of disease frequency and association

Practicals

Descriptive epidemiology

Basic characteristics - person, place, time. Sources of data and its presentation.

Types of descriptive studies. Hypothesis formulation of a causal association.

Analytical epidemiology

Definition, clarification of causal association between exposure and effect, hypothesis testing. Selection of study groups, statistical assessment. Prospective and retrospective case-control and cohort study, their advantages, and disadvantages

Experimental epidemiology

Definition, effect, and importance of experimental studies. Their types, selection of subjects under investigation, types of blinding, randomization, design, conducting, and final testing and evaluation. Ethical issues of experimental clinical studies.

The ways of interpretation and evaluation of studies 

Issues in analysis and interpretation of studies, evaluation of the role of bias and confounding, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals

Evaluation of Epidemiologic studies

Issues in analysis and interpretation of studies, calculation of results of relative risk RR, odds ratio OR etc.

Validity of the diagnostic tests

Definition and importance of validity of diagnostic tests measurement, gold standard, sensitivity, specificity and predictive value calculation, design and strategy of the population screening program

All Practicals topics are illustrated by model situation solving

Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
Entry requirements -
Knowledge of topics from high school
Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
 
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