Epidemiological research is ubiquitous. Even if you don’t realise it, you come across epidemiological studies and the impact of their findings every single day. You have probably heard that obesity is increasing in high income countries or that malaria is killing millions of people in low income countries. It is common knowledge that smoking causes cancer and that physical activity is protective against heart disease. These facts may seem obvious today, but it took decades of epidemiological research to produce the necessary evidence. In this course, you will learn the fundamental tools of epidemiology which are essential to conduct such studies, starting with the measures used to describe the frequency of a disease or health-related condition. You will also learn how to quantify the strength of an association and discuss the distinction between association and causation. In the second half of the course, you will use this knowledge to describe different strategies for prevention, identify strengths and weaknesses of diagnostic tests and consider when a screening programme is appropriate.
Este curso faz parte do Programa de cursos integrados Epidemiology for Public Health
Informações sobre o curso
A background in health sciences or/and quantitative methods would be useful, but not essential.
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Calculate and interpret appropriate measures in order to describe disease frequency, association and attributable risk for given scenarios.
Calculate sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, in order to interpret these values in the context of screening.
Habilidades que você terá
- incidence
- Epidemiology
- Prevalence
- association
A background in health sciences or/and quantitative methods would be useful, but not essential.
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Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Measures of disease frequency
Measures of association
Attributable risk and strategies for prevention
Disease detection and screening
Avaliações
- 5 stars82,83%
- 4 stars12,65%
- 3 stars2,56%
- 2 stars0,30%
- 1 star1,65%
Principais avaliações do MEASURING DISEASE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
The course has been very exciting and insightful. The lecturers did a great job providing understandable notes and clarifying the concepts. I appreciate their efforts.
Thank you for the excellent course materials, quizzes, and discussions. They have been extremely useful in updating my knowledge. Please keep the good work going.
A very interesting course. It makes me very curious about solving assignments and test my knowledge. A wonderful experience. Thank you.
This was a very very informative and I truly enjoyed every bit of it during this 4 weeks. I am saying thank you so much to the organizers of this wonderful course 100% thumbs up!
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