Syllabus
Syllabus
Winter Semester
Epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status
Methods of evaluation of health status, explanation of terminology used, basic characteristics of population studies, measures of disease frequency and association
Development and use of epidemiological methods
Terminology used in epidemiology, basic characteristics of epidemiological studies, examples of different types of studies, their planning, design, and conducting, evaluation of results
Descriptive epidemiology
Basic characteristics - person, place, time. Sources of data and its presentation.
Types of descriptive studies. Hypothesis formulation of 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 counfounding, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals
Information systems of infectious diseases
Principles of passive and active immunization
Nosokomial diseases, Epidemilogy of Salmonelosis
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 population screening programme
Summer Semester
Intestinal bacterial infections (food-borne bacterial disease)
Epidemiological characteristics of etiological agents, differential diagnosis, epidemic measures. Epidemic of thyphoid fever, practical example.
Viral Hepatitis
Epidemiological features, diagnostics, preventive and epidemic measures, occurrence.
Infectious agents, epdiemiological characteristics and differences of viral hepatitis A, B, C,
D, E. Differential diagnostics of viral hepatitis.
Acute respiratory illnes
Characteristics of acute respiratory illnesses of viral and mycoplasmal etiology, epidemiology of influenza, Reye´s syndrome, bird´s influenza, vaccination strategy.
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
History, description and case definition, epidemiological features of HIV/AIDS infection, occurrence in Czech Republic and worldwide, trends and perspectives of therapy and control.
Geographic distribution of infection + Lyme borreliosis
Characteristics, spectrum of infections, etiologic agents, vectors, reservoir of infectious agents, host, endemicity, ecology. Examples from Czech Republic and world.
Epidemiology of neuroinfections
In this topic will be described frequency of distribution of neuroinfections in
Czech Republic (encephalitis, meningitis)
Cancer Epidemiology
Most frequent cancer´s incidence and mortality in Czech Republic, secular trend and their
Analysis. Epidemiologic study ? practical exercise.
Immunization
Strategy of active and passive immunization in Czech Republic and new valid vaccination schedule. Contraindications and complications of vaccination.
Surveillance of the disease
Definition, aims, aspects and elements of surveillance. National surveillance program of measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis etc.
All Practices topics are illustrated by model situation solving
Annotation
The subject is taught in bachelor?s study programme Specialisation in Health Care, subject Public Health in the 3rd year of study (combined study). ). Introductory to the subject epidemiology, terminology, , mode of transmission of the diseases, epidemiological studies, IT in epidemiology, principles of passive and active immunization.