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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)
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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)
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HEPM 2 - Topics: 1. Epidemiological Methods Requirements: • 80% attendance at practicum Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
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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)
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• Lectures Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
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HEPM 2 - Topics: 1. Epidemiological Methods Requirements: • 80% attendance at practicum Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
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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)
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Knowledge of topics from high school
Last update: Petráš Marek, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.09.2024)
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