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
Annotation
Introduction of epidemiology, terminology, epidemiological studies, their interpretation and evaluation of results, epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status, trends in epidemiology